Abstract:It is long known that the skeletal muscle of teleost fish contains muscle fibers which are in all probability of a tonic type according to morphological criteria. However, the evidence for the existence of teleost tonic fibers is still confined to a very small number of species, and knowledge concerning their ontogeny and possible functions is even more restricted. A remarkable deficit in this context is that it is not even exactly known whether the zebrafish, which is widely used to study vertebrate developme… Show more
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