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Effects of Temperature on Muscular Function and Locomotory Performance in Teleost Fish

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Advances in Comparative and Environmental Physiology

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All modes of animal locomotion are variations on a theme in which the organism converts chemical potential energy into the kinetic energy of a moving body. The range of permissible variations on this theme is limited by physical constraints of the medium in which locomotion occurs and shaped by locomotory demands of a particular life history.

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  1. Department of Zoology and Center for Marine Studies, University of Maine, Orono, ME, 04469, USA

    B. D. Sidell

  2. Department of Radiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 02115, USA

    T. S. Moerland

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Sidell, B.D., Moerland, T.S. (1989). Effects of Temperature on Muscular Function and Locomotory Performance in Teleost Fish. In: Advances in Comparative and Environmental Physiology. Advances in Comparative and Environmental Physiology, vol 5. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-74510-2_5

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