Thermogenesis, muscle hyperplasia, and the origin of birds

✍ Scribed by S. Newman

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 19 KB
• Volume: 33
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0265-9247
• DOI: 10.1002/bies.201190045

✦ Synopsis

In the above article, the word ''land'' was inadvertently omitted from the third sentence, which should read: ''The anatomical diversity of birds, the most species-rich and ecologically diverse of the land vertebrate classes, is remarkable.'' In addition, the first sentence of the fifth paragraph contains a reversed attribution of the roles of the two major chest muscles of birds. The sentence should read: ''The anterior locomotor module is associated with its own set of massive muscles, most prominently the pectoralis, which lowers the wings or paddles during flying and swimming, and the supracoracoideus (particularly extensive in penguins), which raises them.'' Bioessays 33: 719,ß 2011 WILEY Periodicals, Inc.