Flight of Mammals: From Terrestrial Limbs to Wings

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 Li...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Panyutina, Aleksandra A., Korzun, Leonid P. (Author), Kuznetsov, Alexander N. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Springer International Publishing 2015, 2015
Edition:1st ed. 2015
Subjects:
Online Access:
Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
LEADER 03022nmm a2200373 u 4500
001 EB001028445
003 EBX01000000000000000822035
005 00000000000000.0
007 cr|||||||||||||||||||||
008 150402 ||| eng
020 |a 9783319087566 
100 1 |a Panyutina, Aleksandra A. 
245 0 0 |a Flight of Mammals: From Terrestrial Limbs to Wings  |h Elektronische Ressource  |c by Aleksandra A. Panyutina, Leonid P. Korzun, Alexander N. Kuznetsov 
250 |a 1st ed. 2015 
260 |a Cham  |b Springer International Publishing  |c 2015, 2015 
300 |a XXVII, 303 p. 233 illus., 36 illus. in color  |b online resource 
505 0 |a 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 
653 |a Vertebrates 
653 |a Animal Ecology 
653 |a Animal physiology 
653 |a Animal ecology 
653 |a Evolutionary Biology 
653 |a Animal Anatomy / Morphology / Histology 
653 |a Animal Physiology 
653 |a Animal anatomy 
653 |a Vertebrates 
653 |a Evolutionary biology 
700 1 |a Korzun, Leonid P.  |e [author] 
700 1 |a Kuznetsov, Alexander N.  |e [author] 
041 0 7 |a eng  |2 ISO 639-2 
989 |b Springer  |a Springer eBooks 2005- 
856 4 0 |u https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08756-6?nosfx=y  |x Verlag  |3 Volltext 
082 0 |a 576.8 
520 |a 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