Built for rowing: frog muscle is tuned to limb morphology to power swimming

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• Publication year

  2013

• Venue

  Journal of the Royal Society Interface

• Publication date

  2013-07-06

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Physics, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1098/rsif.2013.0236PMID 23676897PMCID PMC3673160
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