Hydrostatic locomotion in a limbless tetrapod

Nature

Volumn 386, Issue 6622, 1997, Pages 269-272

  O'Reilly, James C ^a   Ritter, Dale A ^b   Carrier, David R ^b,c  

^a NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIA; ANATOMY; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; BODY MOVEMENT; HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE; LOCOMOTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AMPHIBIAN; CAECILIAN; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; HYDROSTATIC LOCOMOTION; LIMBLESS TETRAPOD;

EID: 0030620719     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/386269a0     Document Type: Article

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