Beyond locomotion: How specialized motor patterns enable a vertebrate to struggle free from capture

Summary: Animals captured by predators can still survive the attack by struggling to release themselves. We investigated how Xenopus tadpoles use struggling movements to free themselves from head restraint. High-speed video tracking revealed a stereotyped sequence of body flexions with distinct kine...

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Principais autores:	Saeed Farjami, Andrey Palyanov, Hong-Yan Zhang, Valentina Saccomanno, Robert Merrison-Hort, Andrea Ferrario, Roman Borisyuk, Joel Tabak, Wen-Chang Li
Formato:	Artigo
Idioma:	Inglês
Publicado em:	Elsevier 2025-12-01
coleção:	iScience
Assuntos:	zoology neuroscience evolutionary biology biomechanics
Acesso em linha:	http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589004225023296
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