Kinematics, hydrodynamics and force production of pleopods suggest jet-assisted walking in the american lobster (homarus americanus)

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 212, Issue 17, 2009, Pages 2731-2745

  Lim, Jeanette L ^a   DeMont, M Edwin ^a  

^a ST FRANCIS XAVIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Homarus americanus; Hydrodynamics; Jet wake; Kinematics; Lobster; Locomotion; Metachrony; Pleopod; Robotics

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOMECHANICS; HISTOLOGY; MALE; NEPHROPIDAE; PHYSIOLOGY; WALKING; WATER FLOW;

ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEPHROPIDAE; WALKING; WATER MOVEMENTS;

HOMARUS AMERICANUS; LOBSTER;

EID: 70349260257     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.026922     Document Type: Article

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