From bouncy legs to poisoned arrows: elastic movements in invertebrates

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• Publication year

  2011

• Venue

  Journal of Experimental Biology

• Publication date

  2011-06-15

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine

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  DOI 10.1242/jeb.038596PMID 21613512
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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