Evaluating The Precocial-altricial Axis of Motor Skill at Birth in A Preterm Pig Model.

ABSTRACT: The pace of locomotor development is a critical component of lifetime evolutionary fitness. Developmental researchers often divide species into two broad categories based on functional competence at birth: precocial infants who can independently stand and locomote soon after birth versus altricial infants who are either incapable of independent movement or can only do so in a rudimentary manner. However, investigating the lower level neuromotor and biomechanical traits that account for perinatal variation in motor development is complicated by the lack of experimental control inherent to all comparative analyses. Precocial and altricial animals often differ along a host of dimensions that can obfuscate the specific factors controlling motor development per se. Here, we propose an alternati

SUBMITTER: Young JW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10503475 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature