Skeletal muscle fibre architecture provides important insights into performance of vertebrate
locomotor and feeding behaviours. Chemical digestion and in situ sectioning of muscle …

Our knowledge of muscle anatomy and physiology in vertebrates has increased dramatically
over the last two‐hundred years. Today, much is understood about how muscles contract …

Atlas of Terrestrial Mammal Limbs is the first comprehensive and detailed anatomy book on
a broad phylogenetic and ecological range of mammals. This extraordinary new work …

Frogs have a highly conserved body plan, yet they employ a diverse array of locomotor
modes, making them ideal organisms for investigating the relationships between …

Bats are unique among mammals for evolving powered flight. However, very little data are
available on the muscle properties and architecture of bat flight muscles. Diffusible iodine …

Neomorphic, membrane-associated skeletal rods are found in disparate vertebrate lineages,
but their evolution is poorly understood. Here we show that one of these elements—the …

Enigmatic rod-like skeletal structures that support compliant membranes (patagia) in aerial
mammals have been often considered as neomorphic elements or as evolutionary novelties …

In this the second issue of a two‐volume set of the Anatomical Record on the relationship
between muscle functional morphology and behavior, the focus is on the postcranial …

Molossus fluminensis is a species of the wide diversified family Molossidae. Representants
of this family have evolved under pressures associated to two different behaviors—a high …

The hindlimbs allow bats to attach to the mother from birth, and roost during independent
life. Despite the great morphological diversity in Chiroptera, the hindlimbs morphology and …