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Shingle-back lizards crush snail shells using temporal summation (tetanus) to increase the force of the adductor muscles
During the crushing of hard objects, the adductor muscles of Trachydosaurus are activated in an unfused tetanus with the tetanic pulses of the several motor units occurring in synchrony.Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/42792/1/18_2005_Article_BF02118620.pd