How muscles accommodate movement in different physical environments: Aquatic vs. terrestrial locomotion in vertebrates

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 131, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 61-75

  Gillis, Gary B ^a   Blob, Richard W ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aquatic; Biomechanics; Electromyography; EMG; Environment; Kinematics; Locomotion; Modulation; Muscle; Sonomicrometry; Terrestrial; Vertebrate

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; CONFERENCE PAPER; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; LAND BIOME; LOCOMOTION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE LENGTH; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; STRESS STRAIN RELATIONSHIP; VERTEBRATE; VIDEORECORDING;

ANGUILLIFORMES; ANURA; TESTUDINES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0035686361     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1095-6433(01)00466-4     Document Type: Conference Paper

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