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Highlights efficiency trade-offs in ultra-rapid contractions; leaves open relevance to mammalian cardiac muscle energetics.
The fastest muscles are powered by a motor that is comparatively averse to energy-providing ATP, as shown by Douglas Swank (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY), Vivek Vishnudas, and David Maughan (University of Vermont, Burlington, VT). The muscles that power Drosophila flight contract over
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