Flight of mammals [electronic resource] : from terrestrial limbs to wings / Aleksandra A. Panyutina, Leonid P. Korzun, Alexander N. Kuznetsov.
2015
QP310.F5 P36 2015eb
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Flight of mammals [electronic resource] : from terrestrial limbs to wings / Aleksandra A. Panyutina, Leonid P. Korzun, Alexander N. Kuznetsov.
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9783319087566 electronic book
3319087568 electronic book
9783319087559
3319087568 electronic book
9783319087559
Published
Cham : Springer, 2015.
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English
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1 online resource (xxvii, 303 pages) : illustrations.
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10.1007/978-3-319-08756-6 doi
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QP310.F5 P36 2015eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
591.47/9
Summary
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.
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Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Forelimb Morphology of Tree Shrews
Chapter 2: Forelimb Morphology of Colugos
Chapter 3: Forelimb Morphology of Bats
Chapter 4: Functional Analysis of the Locomotor Apparatus of Colugos
Chapter 5: Functional Analysis of the Locomotor Apparatus of Bats
Chapter 6: Comparative Morphofunctional Analysis
Chapter 7: Evolutionary Scenario for the Establishment of Flapping Flight.
Chapter 2: Forelimb Morphology of Colugos
Chapter 3: Forelimb Morphology of Bats
Chapter 4: Functional Analysis of the Locomotor Apparatus of Colugos
Chapter 5: Functional Analysis of the Locomotor Apparatus of Bats
Chapter 6: Comparative Morphofunctional Analysis
Chapter 7: Evolutionary Scenario for the Establishment of Flapping Flight.