Axial muscle function during lizard locomotion

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 199, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 2499-2510

  Ritter, Dale ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

electromyography; epaxial muscles; hypaxial muscles; Iguana iguana; lateral bending; lizard; locomotion; Varanus salvator

Indexed keywords

AMNIOTA; AVES; IGUANA IGUANA; MAMMALIA; RECTUS; SQUAMATA; VARANUS SALVATOR;

EID: 0030454815     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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