Whole-body mechanics and gaits in the gray short-tailed opossum Monodelphis domestica: Integrating patterns of locomotion in a semi-erect mammal

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 206, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 1379-1388

  Parchman, Andrew J ^a   Reilly, Stephen M ^a   Biknevicius, Audrone R ^b  

^a OHIO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OHIO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Kinematics; Kinetics; Locomotion; Marsupial; Monodelphis domestica; Opossum

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENERGY METABOLISM; GAIT; LOCOMOTION; METABOLISM; OPOSSUM; PHYSIOLOGY; VIDEORECORDING;

ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; ENERGY METABOLISM; GAIT; LOCOMOTION; OPOSSUMS; VIDEO RECORDING;

ANIMALIA; DIDELPHIDAE; MAMMALIA; METATHERIA; MONODELPHIS; MONODELPHIS DOMESTICA; TETRAPODA;

EID: 0038373711     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.00267     Document Type: Article

References (50)

1. Alexander, R. McN., Maloiy, G. M., Ker, R. F., Jayes, A. S. and Warui, C. N. (1982). The role of tendon elasticity in the locomotion of the camel (Camelus dromedarius). J. Zool. Lond. 298, 293-313.
2. Bertram, J. E. A., Todhunter, R. J., Foels, W. S., Williams, A. J. and Lust, G. (1997). Multiple force platform analysis of the canine trot: a new approach to assessing basic characteristics of locomotion. Vet. Comp. Orthop. Traumatol. 10, 160-169.
3. Biewener, A. A. (1983). Locomotory stresses in the limb bones of two small mammals: the ground squirrel and chipmunk. J. Exp. Biol. 103, 131-154.
4. Biewener, A. A., Alexander, R. McN. and Heglund, N. C. (1981). Elastic energy storage in the hopping of kangaroos (Macropodidae). J. Zool. Lond. 195, 369-383.
5. Biewener, A. A. and Blickhan, R. (1988). Kangaroo rat locomotion: Design for elastic energy storage or acceleration? J. Exp. Biol. 140, 243-255.
6. Biewener, A. A. and Baudinette, R. V. (1995). In vivo muscle force and elastic energy storage during steady speed hopping of tammar wallabies (Macropus eugenii). J. Exp. Biol. 198, 1829-1841.
7. Biewener, A. A., Konieczynski, D. D. and Baudinette, R. V. (1998). In vivo muscle force-length behavior during steady-speed hopping of tammar wallabies. J. Exp. Biol. 201, 1681-1694.
8. Biewener, A. A. and Roberts, T. J. (2000). Muscle and tendon contributions to force, work, and elastic energy savings: a comparative perspective. Exer. Sports Sci. Rev. 28, 99-107.
9. Blickhan, R. (1989). The spring-mass model for running and hopping. J. Biomech. 22, 1217-1227.
10. Blickhan, R. and Full, R. J. (1987). Locomotor energetics of the ghost crab. II. Mechanics of the centre of mass during walking and running. J. Exp. Biol. 130, 155-174.
11. Blickhan, R. and Full, R. J. (1992). Mechanical work in terrestrial locomotion. In Biomechanics: Structures and Systems. A Practical Approach (ed. A. A. Biewener), pp. 75-96. Oxford: IRL Press at Oxford University Press.
12. Buchner, H. H. F., Savelberg, H. H. C. M., Schamhardt, H. C., Merkeus, H. W. and Berneveld, A. (1994). Kinematics of treadmill versus overground locomotion in horses. Vet. Quart. 16 (Suppl. 2), S87-90.
13. Budsberg, S. C., Verstraete, M. C. and Soutas-Little, R. W. (1987). Force plate analysis of the walking gait in healthy dogs. Am. J. Vet. Res. 48, 915-918.
14. Cavagna, G. A., Heglund, N. C. and Taylor, C. R. (1977). Mechanical work in terrestrial locomotion: two basic mechanisms for minimizing energy expenditure. Am. J. Physiol. 233, R243-R261.
15. Dagg, A. I. (1973). Gaits in mammals. Mammal Rev. 3, 135-154.
16. Donelan, J. M., Kram, R. and Kuo, A. D. (2002). Simultaneous positive and negative external mechanical work in human walking. J. Biomech. 35, 117-124.
17. Farley, C. T., Glasheen, J. and McMahon, T. A. (1993). Running springs: speed and animal size. J. Exp. Biol. 185, 71-86.
18. Farley, C. T. and Ko, T. C. (1997). Mechanics of locomotion in lizards. J. Exp. Biol. 200, 2177-2188.
19. Full, R. J. and Koditschek, D. E. (1999). Templates and anchors: neuromechanical hypotheses of legged locomotion on land. J. Exp. Biol. 202, 3325-3332.
20. Full, R. J. and Tu, M. S. (1990). Mechanics of six-legged runners. J. Exp. Biol. 148, 129-146.
21. Gillis, G. B. and Biewener, A. A. (2001). Hindlimb muscle function in relation to speed and gait: in vivo patterns of strain and activation in a hip and knee extensor of the rat (Rattus norvegicus). J. Exp. Biol. 204, 2717-2731.
22. Gioffon, T. and Vincent, G. (1779). Memoire artificeille des preincepes realtifs a la fide le representation des animaux tant en peintre, qu'en sculpture: I. Partie concernment le cheval Alfort. Paris.
23. Harris, S. E. (1993). Horse Gaits, Balance and Movement. New York, Howell Bookhouse.
24. Heglund, N. C., Cavagna, G. A. and Taylor, C. R. (1982). Energetics and mechanics of terrestrial locomotion. III. Energy changes of the centre of mass as a function of speed and body size in birds and mammals. J. Exp. Biol. 79, 41-56.
25. Hildebrand, M. (1965). Symmetrical gaits of horses. Science 191, 701-708.
26. Hildebrand, M. (1976). Analysis of tetrapod gaits: general considerations and symmetrical gaits. In Neural Control of Locomotion, vol. 18 (ed. R. M. Herman, S. Grillner, P. Stein and D. G. Stuart), pp. 203-206. New York, Plenum Press.
27. Hildebrand, M. (1977). Analysis of asymmetrical gaits. J. Mamm. 58, 131-155.
28. Hildebrand, M. (1980). The quadrupedal gaits of vertebrates. Bioscience 39, 766-775.
29. Hildebrand, M. (1985). Walking and running. In Functional Vertebrate Morphology (ed. M. Hildebrand, D. M. Bramble and K. F. Liem), pp. 38-57. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press.
30. Hughes, G. M. (1952). The coordination of insect movements. I. The walking movements of insects. J. Exp. Biol. 29, 267-284.
31. Ker, R. F., Alexander, R. McN. and Bennett, M. B. (1988). Why are mammalian tendons so thick? J. Zool. 216, 309-324.
32. Ker, R. F., Bennett, M. B., Bibby, S. R., Rester, R. C. and Alexander, R. McN. (1987). The spring in the arch of the human foot? Nature 325, 147-149.
33. Kimura, T. and Endo, B. (1972). Comparison of force of foot between quadrupedal walking of dog and bipedal walking of man. J. Fac. Sci. Univ. Tokyo V 4, 119-130.
34. Kozacik, J. J. (1981). Stepping patterns in the cockroach, Periplaneta americana. J. Exp. Biol. 90, 357-360.
35. Lammers, A. R. (2001). The effects of incline and branch diameter on the kinematics of arboreal locomotion. Am. Zool. 41, 1500.
36. Lee, A. K. and Cockburn, A. (1985). Evolutionary Ecology of Marsupials. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
37. Lee, C. A. and Farley, C. T. (1998). Determinants of the center of mass trajectory in human walking and running. J. Exp. Biol. 210, 2935-2944.
38. McMahon, T. A., Valiant, G. and Frederick, E. C. (1987). Groucho running. J. Appl. Physiol. 62, 2326-2337.
39. Novacek, M. J. (1992). Fossils, topologies, missing data, and the higher level phylogeny of eutherian mammals. Syst. Biol. 41, 58-73.
40. Pridmore, P. A. ( 1992). Trunk movements during locomotion in the marsupial Monodelphis domestica (Didelphidae). J. Morph. 211, 137-146.
41. Reilly, S. M. and Biknevicius, A. R. (2003). Integrating kinetic and kinematic approaches to the analysis of terrestrial locomotion. In Vertebrate Biomechanics and Evolution (ed. V. L. Bels, J. P. Gasc and A. Casinos), pp. 243-265. Oxford: Bios Scientific Publishers.
42. Reilly, S. M. and Delancey, M. J. (1997). Sprawling locomotion in the lizard Sceloporus clarki: the effects of speed on gait, hindlimb kinematics and axial bending during walking. J. Zool. Lond. 243, 417-433.
43. Reilly, S. M. and Elias, J. A. (1998). Locomotion in Alligator mississippiensis: kinematic effects of speed and posture and their relevance to the sprawling-to-erect paradigm. J. Exp. Biol. 201, 2559-2574.
44. Reilly, S. M. and White, T. D. (2003). Hypaxial motor patterns and the function of epipubic bones in primitive mammals. Science 299, 400-402.
45. Renous, S., Gasc, J.-P., Bels, V. L. and Wicker, R. (2002). Asymmetrical gaits of juvenile Crocodylus johnstoni, galloping Australian crocodiles. J. Zool. Lond. 256, 311-325.
46. Roberts, T. J., Marsh, R. L., Weyland, P. G. and Taylor, C. R. (1997). Muscular force in running turkeys: the economy of minimizing work. Science 275, 1113-1115.
47. Wagner, J. A. (1842). Diagnosen neuer Arten brasilischer Säugethiere, Arch. Naturgesch. 8, 356-362.
48. White, T. D. and Andersen, R. A. (1994). Locomotor patterns and costs releated to body size and form in teeid lizards. J. Zool. Lond. 233, 107-128.
49. White, T. D. (1990). Gait selection in the brush-tail possum (Trichosurus vulpecula), the northern quoll (Dasyurus hallucatus), and the Virginia opossum (Didelphis virginiana). J. Mamm. 71, 79-84.
50. Willey, J. (2001). Mechanics of the semi-erect posture: limb function and whole body mechanics in Alligator mississippiensis. Masters thesis, Ohio University.