How to build fast muscles: Synchronous and asynchronous designs

Integrative and Comparative Biology

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 762-770

  Syme, Douglas A ^a   Josephson, Robert K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; INVERTEBRATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0036707167     PISSN: 00031569     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icb/42.4.762     Document Type: Conference Paper

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