When skeletons are geared for speed: the morphology, biomechanics, and energetics of rapid animal motion.

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• Publication year

  2012

• Venue

  Integrative and Comparative Biology

• Publication date

  2012-11-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Physics

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1093/icb/ics111PMID 22945756
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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