Disentangling the functional roles of morphology and motion in the swimming of fish

Integrative and Comparative Biology

Volumn 50, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1140-1154

  Tytell, Eric D ^a   Borazjani, Iman ^b   Sotiropoulos, Fotis ^b   Baker, T Vernon ^c   Anderson, Erik J ^c   Lauder, George V ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c GROVE CITY COLLEGE   (United States)

^d HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOMECHANICS; BODY SIZE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; FIN (ORGAN); FISH; HISTOLOGY; HYDRODYNAMICS; PHYSIOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SWIMMING;

ANIMAL FINS; ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; BODY SIZE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FISHES; HYDRODYNAMICS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SWIMMING;

ANGUILLIFORMES; CHONDRICHTHYES; LEPOMIS MACROCHIRUS; ONCORHYNCHUS MYKISS; PETROMYZONTIDAE; PISCES;

EID: 77956245287     PISSN: 15407063     EISSN: 15577023     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icb/icq057     Document Type: Conference Paper

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