Muscle directly meets the vast power demands in agile lizards

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 272, Issue 1563, 2005, Pages 581-584

  Curtin, Nancy A ^a   Woledge, Roger C ^a   Aerts, Peter ^b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Acanthodactylus boskianus; Acceleration; Lizard; Muscle contraction; Power

Indexed keywords

LOCOMOTION; MUSCLE;

ACCELERATION; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; IN VITRO STUDY; LIZARD; LOCOMOTION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MUSCLE CELL; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE STRENGTH; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RUNNING; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOMECHANICS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENERGY METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

ACANTHODACTYLUS BOSKIANUS; SQUAMATA;

ACCELERATION; ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; ENERGY METABOLISM; LIZARDS; LOCOMOTION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL;

EID: 23244453719     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2004.2982     Document Type: Article

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