Spring or string: does tendon elastic action influence wing muscle mechanics in bat flight?

Tendon material properties vary and are interdependent among turkey hindlimb muscles

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Muscle function during takeoff and landing flight in the pigeon (Columba livia)

(2012) A. M. B. Robertson et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Upstroke wing flexion and the inertial cost of bat flight

(2012) D. K. Riskin et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Evidence for a vertebrate catapult: elastic energy storage in the plantaris tendon during frog jumping

(2011) H. C. Astley et al.   Biology Letters

Whole-body kinematics of a fruit bat reveal the influence of wing inertia on body accelerations

(2011) J. Iriarte-Diaz et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Flexible mechanisms: the diverse roles of biological springs in vertebrate movement

(2011) T. J. Roberts et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Effects of flight speed upon muscle activity in hummingbirds

(2010) B. W. Tobalske et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Elastic energy storage in the hopping of kangaroo rats (Dipodomys spectabilis)

(2009) A. Biewener et al.   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

The use of compliant joints and elastic energy storage in bio-inspired legged robots

(2008) Umberto Scarfogliero et al.   MECHANISM AND MACHINE THEORY

Contractile properties of the pigeon supracoracoideus during different modes of flight

(2007) B. W. Tobalske et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY