{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["3"],"submitter":["Lee AH"],"pubmed_abstract":["Torsional loading is a common feature of skeletal biomechanics during vertebrate flight. The importance of resisting torsional loads is best illustrated by the convergence of wing bone structure (e.g., long with thin walls) across extant bats and birds. Whether or not such a convergence occurs at the microstructural level is less clear. In volant birds, the humeri and ulnae often contain abundant laminar bony tissue in which primary circumferential vascular canals course concentrically about the long axis of the bone. These circumferential canals and the matrix surrounding them presumably function to resist the tissue-level shear stress caused by flight-induced torsion. Here, we assess whether or not laminar bone is a general adaptive feature in extant flying vertebrates using a histologic"],"journal":["PeerJ"],"pagination":["e823"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC4359045"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"pubmed_title":["Wing bone laminarity is not an adaptation for torsional resistance in bats."],"pmcid":["PMC4359045"],"pubmed_authors":["Simons EL","Lee AH"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"Wing bone laminarity is not an adaptation for torsional resistance in bats.","description":"Torsional loading is a common feature of skeletal biomechanics during vertebrate flight. The importance of resisting torsional loads is best illustrated by the convergence of wing bone structure (e.g., long with thin walls) across extant bats and birds. Whether or not such a convergence occurs at the microstructural level is less clear. In volant birds, the humeri and ulnae often contain abundant laminar bony tissue in which primary circumferential vascular canals course concentrically about the long axis of the bone. These circumferential canals and the matrix surrounding them presumably function to resist the tissue-level shear stress caused by flight-induced torsion. Here, we assess whether or not laminar bone is a general adaptive feature in extant flying vertebrates using a histologic","dates":{"release":"2015-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2015","modification":"2025-04-18T15:48:13.329Z","creation":"2019-03-27T01:48:09Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC4359045","cross_references":{"pubmed":["25780775"],"doi":["10.7717/peerj.823"]}}