Swimming kinematics and respiratory behaviour of Xenopus laevis larvae raised in altered gravity

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 201, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 1917-1926

  Fejtek, Monika ^a   Souza, Kenneth ^b   Neff, Anton ^c   Wassersug, Richard ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Deve lopment; Hypergravity; Locomotion; Microgravity; Respiration; Swimming; Tadpole; Xenopus laevis

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BREATHING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; FLIGHT EXPERIMENT; GRAVITY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LARVA; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MANNED; NASA CENTER ARC; NASA DISCIPLINE DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; NASA EXPERIMENT NUMBER 178256; PHYSIOLOGY; SHORT DURATION; SPACE FLIGHT; STS-47 SHUTTLE PROJECT; SWIMMING; TIME; WEIGHTLESSNESS; XENOPUS;

NASA CENTER ARC; NASA DISCIPLINE DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; NASA EXPERIMENT NUMBER 178256;

FLIGHT EXPERIMENT; MANNED; SHORT DURATION; STS-47 SHUTTLE PROJECT;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; GRAVITY, ALTERED; HYPERGRAVITY; LARVA; LOCOMOTION; MALE; RESPIRATION; SPACE FLIGHT; SWIMMING; TIME FACTORS; WEIGHTLESSNESS; WEIGHTLESSNESS SIMULATION; XENOPUS;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMALIA; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0032102758     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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