@article{726055,
      recid = {726055},
      author = {Panyutina, Aleksandra A., and Korzun, Leonid P., and  Kuznetsov, Alexander N.,},
      title = {Flight of mammals from terrestrial limbs to wings /  [electronic resource] :},
      pages = {1 online resource (xxvii, 303 pages) :},
      abstract = {The evolutionary acquisition of flapping flight in mammals  remains one of the unresolved questions of biology.  Currently, no consensus as to the morphofunctional steps  through which mammals passed to gain the ability to fly by  flapping wings has been reached. Flight of Mammals: From  Terrestrial Limbs to Wings is the result of several years  of research aimed to fill this gap in the literature. Its  conclusions are based on original data obtained by  dissections of musculoskeletal system of a number of  species and on a biomechanical analysis of these data. In  addition to a thorough discussion of anatomy and the means  through which mammals acquired flapping flight, more than  two-hundred detailed line drawings and images provide a  picture of the mechanisms of flight in bats and colugos  unavailable in any other source. The book is of interest to  a wide range of biologists, not only to those who study  bats. The methods and approaches used by the authors can be  also applied to other groups of mammals in order to create  morphofunctional scenarios of their evolution. Authors  Aleksandra A. Panyutina, Leonid P. Korzun, and Alexander N.  Kuznetsov are all followers of the scientific school of  functional morphology developed at Department of Vertebrate  Zoology, Faculty of Biology, Lomonosov Moscow State  University, Moscow, Russia.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/726055},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08756-6},
}