Limbless undulatory propulsion on land

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 3179-3184

  Guo, Z V ^a   Mahadevan, L ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Optimization; Snake; Undulatory locomotion; Worm

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL ANATOMY; ANIMALS BY OUTER APPEARANCE; ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; LOCOMOTION; MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; MUSCLE FORCE; MUSCLE FUNCTION; MUSCLE GROWTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SNAKE; THIN FILAMENT; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PHYSIOLOGY; SKELETAL MUSCLE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; LOCOMOTION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MOVEMENT; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; SNAKES;

EID: 42149116268     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0705442105     Document Type: Article

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