Overview
Offers an explanation of the acquisition of flapping flight in mammals
Establishes a model of shoulder girdle mobility in flight that differs significantly from previous models
Suggests that flight in mammals resulted from a sequence of successive morphofunctional transformations rather than phylogenetic apomorphies
Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Dr. Alexandra A. Panyutina serves in the Department of Vertebrate Zoology at Russia's Moscow State University. She has studied the evolution of bat flight since 2005. Prior to that, she studied the morpho ecological diversity of rhinolophid bats.
Dr. Leonid P. Korzun serves as Professor and Head of the Department of Vertebrate Zoology at Moscow State. He has studied the morphological evolution of vertebrates (mainly birds) by means of functional analysis since 1970.
Dr. Alexander N. Kuznetsov also serves in the Department of Vertebrate Zoology at Russia's Moscow State University. He has studied vertebrate locomotion since 1985, when he published the original model of the three-segment Z-like structure of mammalian parasagittal limb, which is now generally accepted by the scientific community.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Flight of Mammals: From Terrestrial Limbs to Wings
Authors: Aleksandra A. Panyutina, Leonid P. Korzun, Alexander N. Kuznetsov
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08756-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-08755-9Published: 30 April 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-35945-8Published: 09 October 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-08756-6Published: 13 March 2015
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVII, 303
Number of Illustrations: 197 b/w illustrations, 36 illustrations in colour
Topics: Evolutionary Biology, Animal Physiology, Animal Anatomy / Morphology / Histology, Animal Ecology, Vertebrates