How to move with no rigid skeleton?

Biologist

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 250-254

  Yekutieli, Yoram ^a   Sumbre, German ^a   Flash, Tamar ^a,b   Hochner, Binyamin ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; HISTOLOGY; LIMB; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); OCTOPUS; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; EXTREMITIES; MOVEMENT; OCTOPODIFORMES; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE;

ANIMALIA; OCTOPUS;

EID: 0036901109     PISSN: 00063347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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