Hopping and swimming in the leopard frog, Rana pipiens: I. Step cycles and kinematics

Journal of Morphology

Volumn 230, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 1-16

  Peters, Susan E ^a   Kamel, Lynn T ^a   Bashor, David P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; FORELIMB; FROG; HINDLIMB; JOINT; LOCOMOTION; MUSCLE; PHYSIOLOGY; SWIMMING;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; FORELIMB; HINDLIMB; JOINTS; LOCOMOTION; MUSCLES; RANA PIPIENS; SWIMMING;

ANIMALIA; ANURA; HUMULUS; PANTHERA PARDUS; RANA PIPIENS;

EID: 0030273414     PISSN: 03622525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4687(199610)230:1<1::AID-JMOR1>3.0.CO;2-N     Document Type: Article

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