Reduction in muscle fibre number during the adaptive radiation of notothenioid fishes: a phylogenetic perspective

The fish fauna of the continental shelf of the Southern Ocean is dominated by a single sub-order of Perciformes, the Notothenioidei, which have unusually large diameter skeletal muscle fibres. We tested the hypothesis that in fast myotomal muscle a high maximum fibre diameter (FDmax) was related to...

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Published in:Journal of Experimental Biology
Main Authors: Johnston, Ian Alistair, Fernandez, DA, Calvo, J, Vieira, VLA, North, AW, Abercromby, M, Garland Jr, T
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: 2003
Subjects:
antarctic teleosts
growth
muscle fibre recruitment
notothenioid fishes
phylogeny
skeletal muscle
ANTARCTIC FISHES
CHAENOCEPHALUS-ACERATUS
INDEPENDENT CONTRASTS
ANGUILLA-ANGUILLA
SKELETAL-MUSCLE
COLD ADAPTATION
MYOGLOBIN GENE
METABOLIC-RATE
TELEOST FISH
WHITE MUSCLE
Adelaide Island
Antarctic
Antarctic Peninsula
Shag Rocks
Southern Ocean
Anguilla anguilla
Antarc*
Tierra del Fuego
Online Access:https://research-portal.st-andrews.ac.uk/en/researchoutput/reduction-in-muscle-fibre-number-during-the-adaptive-radiation-of-notothenioid-fishes-a-phylogenetic-perspective(68797d8d-719a-40a1-be9d-f88e6f6312b2).html
https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.00474

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