Go reconfigure: How fish change shape as they swim and evolve

Integrative and Comparative Biology

Volumn 50, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1120-1139

  Long, John H ^a   Porter, Marianne E ^a   Root, Robert G ^b   Liew, Chun Wai ^b  

^a VASSAR COLLEGE   (United States)

^b LAFAYETTE COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; BIOMECHANICS; BODY POSTURE; CONFERENCE PAPER; EVOLUTION; FIN (ORGAN); FISH; GENETICS; HAGFISH; HISTOLOGY; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PETROMYZON; PHYSIOLOGY; SHARK; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SWIMMING; TAIL;

ANIMAL FINS; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BIOMECHANICS; FISHES; HAGFISHES; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PETROMYZON; POSTURE; SHARKS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SWIMMING; TAIL;

CHONDRICHTHYES; FELIDAE; HAGFISH; PETROMYZONTIDAE; PISCES; TRIAKIS;

EID: 78649525109     PISSN: 15407063     EISSN: 15577023     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icb/icq066     Document Type: Conference Paper

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