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Diductor muscles of brachiopods: active or passive?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 April 2016

Charles W. Thayer
Charles W. Thayer*
Affiliation:
Department of Geology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19174
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Abstract

Experiments show that diductor muscles of articulate brachiopods are normally relaxed, contracting only when the valves gape. Consequently, dead brachiopods rarely gape.

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Research Article
Information
Paleobiology , Volume 1 , Issue 1 , Winter 1975 , pp. 44 - 47
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Copyright © The Paleontological Society 

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