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Fig. 1. Whole-body reconstructions of the three thresher shark species, showing the
position of the red, aerobic locomotor muscle (RM) (red) and vertebral column
(yellow). Top, the bigeye thresher, A. superciliosus (58 kg); middle,
the pelagic thresher, A. pelagicus (56 kg); bottom, the common
thresher, A. vulpinus (70 kg; modified from
Bernal et al., 2003). Location
of the transverse section through each species corresponds to the position of
maximum RM area (see Fig. 2).
Each reconstruction is accompanied by a cross-sectional image taken from the
specimen (inset; RM in the left side has been color enhanced for clarity).
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