Climbing, falling, and jamming during ant locomotion in confined environments

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

Volumn 110, Issue 24, 2013, Pages 9746-9751

  Gravish, Nick ^a   Monaenkova, Daria ^a   Goodisman, Michael A D ^a   Goldman, Daniel I ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Animal locomotion; Extended phenotype; Locomotion control; Social insect; Stability

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; ANT; ANTENNA; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; CLIMBING; ENVIRONMENT; FALLING; JAMMING; LOCOMOTION; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMAL LOCOMOTION; EXTENDED PHENOTYPE; LOCOMOTION CONTROL; SOCIAL INSECT; STABILITY;

ANIMALS; ANTS; BIOMECHANICS; ENVIRONMENT; HUMANS; LOCOMOTION; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NESTING BEHAVIOR; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

ANIMALIA; FORMICIDAE; HEXAPODA; SOLENOPSIS GEMINATA; SOLENOPSIS INVICTA;

EID: 84878958231     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1302428110     Document Type: Article

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