Ontogeny of bipedal locomotion: Walking and running in the chick

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 493, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 589-601

  Muir, Gillian D ^a,b   Gosline, John M ^a   Steeves, John D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHICKEN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENERGY; ENERGY TRANSFER; FORCE; HATCHING; KINETICS; LIMB; LOCOMOTION; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; ONTOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RUNNING; VELOCITY; WALKING;

EID: 0030000118     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.1996.sp021406     Document Type: Article

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