... during tethered-flight exercise ( Snelling et al., 2012 ). According to the principles of symmorphosis, the 6.1-fold difference in aerobic capacity between the hopping and flight muscles should be matched by an equivalent difference in the overall volume, surface area and anatomical diffusing capacity...

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