Re: White meat

[jrc <jrccea@bellsouth.net>]

Domestic selection for taste would exaggerate the trend, but a lot of white 
meat can be expected in any bird with heavy wingloading that uses anaerobic 
burst flapping to generate high power.
Jim

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Marjanovic" <david.marjanovic@gmx.at>
To: "DML" <dinosaur@usc.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, November 23, 2005 3:48 PM
Subject: Re: White meat


> White meat is the one with few mitochondria. It can generate a lot of 
> power fast, but not over any extended periods of time. In large numbers 
> mitochondria -- respectively the cytochrome in their inner membranes --  
> produce the color of dark meat.