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J Exp Biol (2024) 227 (24): jeb248142.
Published: 23 December 2024
...Jarrod C. Petersen; Lucy C. Campbell; Bruce C. Jayne; Thomas J. Roberts ABSTRACT The ability for snakes to ingest large prey (macrostomy) is a widespread, derived trait that involves distending the skin during ingestion and metabolic upregulation during digestion. The material behavior of the skin...
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J Exp Biol (2024) 227 (8): jeb247042.
Published: 22 April 2024
... https://www.biologists.com/user-licence-1-1/ Summary: Although a large prey bolus may impede movement and lengthen propulsive muscles for rectilinear locomotion, few kinematic changes occur in Boa constrictor following the ingestion of large prey. Snake Muscle Macrostomy...
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J Exp Biol (2014) 217 (14): 2445–2448.
Published: 15 July 2014
... Intermandibular soft tissues Macrostomy Passive extensibility Titin Skeletal muscles have passive elastic properties resulting from a combination of components: titin filaments within the sarcomeres, an internal cytoskeletal network, an extensible sarcolemma (membrane plus basal lamina), and collagen...
Includes: Supplementary data