Biomimetics and the case of the remarkable ragworms

Naturwissenschaften

Volumn 94, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 613-621

  Hesselberg, Thomas ^a,b  

^a University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Biomimetics; Bionics; Locomotion; Nereis; Ragworms

Indexed keywords

BIOENGINEERING; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; LOCOMOTION; POLYCHAETE;

BIOMIMETICS; ENDOSCOPE; GAIT; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; ORGANISM; POLYCHAETA; RAGWORM; REVIEW; ROBOTICS; SWIMMING; WORM;

ANIMALS; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; BIOMIMETICS; GENE THERAPY; GENE TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; LOCOMOTION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; POLYCHAETA;

NEREIS; POLYCHAETA;

EID: 34447133644     PISSN: 00281042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00114-006-0212-0     Document Type: Review

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