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A study of ladder-like silk foothold for the locomotion of bagworms

While walking on horizontal substrates, caterpillars skilfully engage all their legs, including three pairs of thoracic legs and a maximum of five pairs of prolegs, to move in a flexible wave-like motion. Such locomotory behaviours, represented by ‘crawling’ and ‘inching’ motions, have widely inspir...

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Autores principales: Yoshioka, Taiyo, Yukuhiro, Fumiko, Kameda, Tsunenori
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8370998/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34404858
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-95809-7