Convergent evolution in locomotory patterns of flying and swimming animals

Nature Communications

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Gleiss, Adrian C ^a   Jorgensen, Salvador J ^b   Liebsch, Nikolai ^c   Sala, Juan E ^d   Norman, Brad ^e,f   Hays, Graeme C ^a   Quintana, Flavio ^d,g   Grundy, Edward ^a   Campagna, Claudio ^d,g   Trites, Andrew W ^h   Block, Barbara A ^b   Wilson, Rory P ^a  

^a SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^d CENTRO NACIONAL PATAGÓNICO   (Argentina)

^e ECOCEAN INC   (Australia)

^f MURDOCH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^g Wildlife Conservation Society (Argentina)   (Argentina)

^h UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; ACCELEROMETER; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY EQUILIBRIUM; CALIBRATION; CONVERGENT EVOLUTION; FLYING; GAIT; LOCOMOTION; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NONHUMAN; OVERALL DYNAMIC BODY ACCELERATION; SEAL; SHARK; SWIMMING; VELOCITY; ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; ARGENTINA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EVOLUTION; GENETIC SELECTION; PHOCA; PHYSIOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TELEMETRY;

ANIMALIA; AVES; CHONDRICHTHYES; PINNIPEDIA; VERTEBRATA;

ACCELERATION; ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; ARGENTINA; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; FUR SEALS; GAIT; SEALS, EARLESS; SELECTION, GENETIC; SHARKS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SWIMMING; TELEMETRY;

EID: 79959239453     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms1350     Document Type: Article

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