{"id":2083,"date":"2018-03-02T12:01:39","date_gmt":"2018-03-02T20:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/ssantana\/wordpress\/?p=2083"},"modified":"2021-03-26T15:13:34","modified_gmt":"2021-03-26T22:13:34","slug":"new-paper-on-the-hindlimb-membrane-musculature-of-bats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/ssantana\/wordpress\/new-paper-on-the-hindlimb-membrane-musculature-of-bats\/","title":{"rendered":"New paper on the hindlimb membrane musculature of bats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2084 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/ssantana\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Untitled-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"Virtual dissections in ventral view of the calcar-depressor muscle complex of one hindlimb of (a) Myotis californicus, (b) Molossus molossus, and (c) Artibeus jamaicensis.\" width=\"169\" height=\"300\"><\/p>\n<p>Ph.D. student Katie Stanchak just published a <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/ssantana\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Stanchak-Santana_2018_Hind-limb-membrane-musculature-bats.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">new paper<\/a><\/strong> describing&nbsp; the variation in the membrane and limb musculature associated with the calcar \u2013 a neomorphic skeletal structure found in the hind limbs of most bats. By combining diffusible iodine-based contrast enhanced computed tomography (diceCT) and standard histological techniques, Katie&nbsp;found that the arrangement of the calcar musculature varies among bat species&nbsp;that have different flight ecologies. These results suggest that the calcar may have a functional role in flight maneuverability, an idea that Katie will be testing in later stages of her Dissertation.<\/p>\n<p>Katie&#8217;s article has also been featured in the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dicect.com\/2018\/02\/13\/new-publication-assessment-of-the-hindlimb-membrane-musculature-of-bats-implications-for-active-control-of-the-calcar\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">diceCT blog<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ph.D. student Katie Stanchak just published a new paper describing&nbsp; the variation in the membrane and limb musculature associated with the calcar \u2013 a neomorphic skeletal structure found in the hind limbs of most bats. By combining diffusible iodine-based contrast enhanced computed tomography (diceCT) and standard histological techniques, Katie&nbsp;found that the arrangement of the calcar [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,36],"tags":[59],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/ssantana\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2083"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/ssantana\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/ssantana\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/ssantana\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/ssantana\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2083"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/ssantana\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3174,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/ssantana\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2083\/revisions\/3174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/ssantana\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/ssantana\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/ssantana\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}