How the Venus flytrap snaps

Nature

Volumn 433, Issue 7024, 2005, Pages 421-425

  Forterre, Yoël ^a   Skotheim, Jan M ^b,c   Dumals, Jacques ^c   Mahadevan, L ^c  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MICROSCOPIC EXAMINATION;

MECHANICAL SIMULATIONS; NON-INVASIVE MICROSCOPY TECHNIQUES; TRIGGER HAIRS; VIDEO IMAGING;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

MECHANICAL PROPERTY;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ARTICLE; DIONAEA MUSCIPULA; HAIR; MICROSCOPY; MOTION; NONHUMAN; PLANT; PLANT LEAF; PLANT RESPONSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCALE UP; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VIDEORECORDING;

BIOMECHANICS; DROSERACEAE; MOTION; PLANT LEAVES; TIME FACTORS; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 13444252482     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature03185     Document Type: Article

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