Fiber type composition and postmetamorphic growth of anuran hindlimb muscles
- 1 December 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Journal of Morphology
- Vol. 170 (3) , 321-345
- https://doi.org/10.1002/jmor.1051700305
Abstract
Fiber type composition distinguished by the level of succinic dehydrogenase, mean fiber diameter, and fiber number were determined for the gracilis major and sartorius in ontogenetic series of the anurans Rana pipiens, Bufo americanus, and Xenopus laevis to characterize muscle composition and mode of muscle growth.A correlation can be made between the respective locomotor mode of these anurans, their activity physiology, and the fiber type composition of the propulsive muscles. R. pipiens and X. laevis have hindlimb muscles composed primarily of fast‐twitch, fast‐fatiguing type 1 fibers. B. americanus's muscles are composed of slow‐twitch, slow‐fatiguing type 2 and type 3 fibers. Fiber typing is apparently useful in explaining interspecific anuran locomotor capability previously difficult to correlate with body shape. Fiber typing also affords an explantion for reported variations in metabolism during strenuous activity.Postmetamorphically, anuran muscles grow by a combination of hyperplasia and hypertrophy, but the percent fiber type composition remains unchanged. In R. pipiens and X. laevis, the muscles grow primarily by hypertrophy with the addition of relatively fewer fibers. The converse is true for B. americanus. In all three species the combinations result in strong positive allometric increases in muscle cross section. Anuran muscle growth is similar to that reported for fish and different from that associated with mammals.This publication has 87 references indexed in Scilit:
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