Muscles of vertebrates [electronic resource] : comparative anatomy, evolution, homologies and development / Rui Diogo, Virginia Abdala.
The Vertebrata is one of the most speciose groups of animals, comprising more than 58,000 living species. This book provides a detailed account on the comparative anatomy, development, homologies and evolution of the head, neck, pectoral and forelimb muscles of vertebrates. It includes hundreds of i...
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Boca Raton : Enfield, N.H. :
CRC Press ; Science Pub.,
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Table of Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 11.1. Muscular splittings, fusions, paedomorphism, reversions and anatomical complexity
- 11.2. Myological characters and phylogenetic reconstructions
- 11.3. Myology, evolutionary developmental biology, model organisms, and the zebrafish
- 11.4. Proposal of a unifying nomenclature for the muscles of vertebrates.