A pneumo-hydrostatic skeleton in land crabs

Nature

Volumn 440, Issue 7087, 2006, Pages 1005-

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMECHANICS; CRAB; SKELETON;

ADAPTATION; ARTHROPOD; ARTICLE; CRAB; CRUSTACEA; HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE; MOBILIZATION; MOLTING; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKELETON; AIR; ANIMAL; ANIMAL ANATOMY; BIOMECHANICS; BRACHYURA; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HEMOLYMPH; HISTOLOGY; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PHYSIOLOGY;

ARTHROPODA; CRUSTACEA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); GECARCINIDAE;

WATER;

AIR; ANIMAL STRUCTURES; ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; BRACHYURA; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; HEMOLYMPH; HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE; MOLTING; MOVEMENT; SKELETON; WATER;

EID: 33646192596     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/4401005a     Document Type: Article

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