Switching skeletons: Hydrostatic support in molting crabs

Science

Volumn 301, Issue 5630, 2003, Pages 209-210

  Taylor, Jennifer R A ^a   Kier, William M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MOTION CONTROL; PRESSURE EFFECTS;

SKELETAL SUPPORT SYSTEMS;

BIODIVERSITY;

CRAB; HYDROSTATICS; SKELETON;

ARTHROPOD; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRAB; CRUSTACEA; HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE; LOCOMOTION; MOLTING; NONHUMAN; POLYP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WORM; ANIMAL; BRACHYURA; FEMALE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HISTOLOGY; MALE; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NASA DISCIPLINE LIFE SCIENCES TECHNOLOGIES; NON-NASA CENTER; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESSURE;

ARTHROPODA; CRUSTACEA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA);

NASA DISCIPLINE LIFE SCIENCES TECHNOLOGIES; NON-NASA CENTER;

ANIMALS; BRACHYURA; FEMALE; HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE; MALE; MOLTING; MOVEMENT; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; PRESSURE;

EID: 0037477470     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1085987     Document Type: Article

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