Feedback control as a framework for understanding tradeoffs in biology

Integrative and Comparative Biology

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 223-237

  Cowan, Noah J ^a   Ankarali, Mert M ^a   Dyhr, Jonathan P ^b   Madhav, Manu S ^a   Roth, Eatai ^b   Sefati, Shahin ^a   Sponberg, Simon ^b   Stamper, Sarah A ^a   Fortune, Eric S ^c   Daniel, Thomas L ^b  

^a Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; INVERTEBRATE; PHYSIOLOGY; SENSORY FEEDBACK; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; FEEDBACK, SENSORY; INVERTEBRATES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; VERTEBRATES;

EID: 84904684513     PISSN: 15407063     EISSN: 15577023     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icb/icu050     Document Type: Conference Paper

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