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Turtling the Salamander: Tail Movements Mitigate Need for Kinematic Limb Changes during Walking in Tiger Salamanders (Ambystoma tigrinum) with Restricted Lateral Movement

Lateral undulation and trunk flexibility offer performance benefits to maneuverability, stability, and stride length (via speed and distance traveled). These benefits make them key characteristics of the locomotion of tetrapods with sprawling posture, with the exception of turtles. Despite their bon...

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Autores principales: Vega, Christine M, Ashley-Ross, Miriam A
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8545788/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34708185
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/iob/obab029