Biomechanical analysis of gait adaptation in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans

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

Volumn 107, Issue 47, 2010, Pages 20323-20328

  Fang Yen, Christopher ^a,b   Wyart, Matthieu ^c,d   Xie, Julie ^a   Kawai, Risa ^a   Kodger, Tom ^a   Chen, Sway ^a   Wen, Quan ^a,c   Samuel, Aravinthan D T ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; BIOMECHANICS; BODY MOVEMENT; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CONFERENCE PAPER; GAIT; LOCOMOTION; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE STRENGTH; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISCOELASTICITY;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 78650529766     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1003016107     Document Type: Article

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