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3) This division also corresponded to a morphological difference, with the fast muscles appearing white in some species, notably birds, and the slow muscles appearing red.
Nevertheless, even this test has had to be modified, albeit with some controversy, to accommodate unusually fast muscles such as the FCR, peroneus longus, and extraocular muscles.
[51-53] Yet, the histochemical reaction for myosin ATPase is often used to divide muscles into slow and fast categories, and then fast muscles are further subtyped into SO, FOG, and FG subcategories based on the intensity of the SDH reaction end-product.
 
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