Performance limits of low-temperature, continuous locomotion are exceeded when locomotion is intermittent in the ghost crab

Physiological Zoology

Volumn 71, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 274-284

  Weinstein, Randi B ^a,b   Full, Robert J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GHOST CRAB; LOCOMOTION; TEMEPRATURE;

DECAPODA; OCYPODE QUADRATA;

EID: 0032077245     PISSN: 0031935X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/515927     Document Type: Article

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