Investigating the locomotion of the sandfish in desert sand using NMR-Imaging

PLoS ONE

Volumn 3, Issue 10, 2008, Pages

  Baumgartner, Werner ^a   Fidler, Florian ^b   Weth, Agnes ^a   Habbecke, Martin ^a   Jakob, Peter ^b   Butenweg, Christoph ^a   Böhme, Wolfgang ^c  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^c ZOOLOGISCHES FORSCHUNGSMUSEUM ALEXANDER KOENIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; FREQUENCY MODULATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LASER MICROSCOPY; LIMB MOVEMENT; LIZARD; LOCOMOTION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; SANDFISH; SWIMMING; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TORSION; VISCOSITY; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; ENVIRONMENT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY;

SCINCUS SCINCUS; SQUAMATA;

SILICON DIOXIDE;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; ENVIRONMENT; LIZARDS; LOCOMOTION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SILICON DIOXIDE;

EID: 53249100488     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003309     Document Type: Article

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