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The action of muscles in swimming fish – JL van Leeuwen (p.22)
The action of muscles in swimming fish – JL van Leeuwen (p.22)
Recently, striking differences in the mechanical performance have been demonstrated for slow muscle fibres from different spots down the trunk of continuously swimming fish. This was elucidated by an integrated analysis of body kinematics, muscle- fibre strain variations, electromyography, and mathematical modelling of the sarcomere dynamics