Skeletal adaptations for forwards and sideways walking in three species of decapod crustaceans

Arthropod Structure and Development

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 95-108

  Vidal Gadea, A G ^a   Rinehart, M D ^a   Belanger, J H ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Brachyuran; Crustacean; Endophragm; Exoskeleton; Locomotion

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRACHYURA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); JOINT FUNCTION; LOCOMOTION; NONHUMAN; RANGE OF MOTION; SKELETON; THORAX; WALKING;

ANIMALS; ASTACOIDEA; BRACHYURA; EXTREMITIES; JOINTS; THORAX; VIDEOTAPE RECORDING; WALKING;

ANIMALIA; ASTACOIDEA; BRACHYURA; BRACHYURAN; CARCINUS MAENAS; CRUSTACEA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); HOMOLOIDEA; LIBINIA; LIBINIA EMARGINATA; MAJOIDEA; PROCAMBARUS CLARKII;

EID: 36749072809     PISSN: 14678039     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asd.2007.06.002     Document Type: Article

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