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Jumping without Using Legs: The Jump of the Click-Beetles (Elateridae) Is Morphologically Constrained
To return to their feet, inverted click-beetles (Elateridae) jump without using their legs. When a beetle is resting on its dorsal side, a hinge mechanism is locked to store elastic energy in the body and releases it abruptly to launch the beetle into the air. While the functional morphology of the...
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Materialtyp: | Artigo |
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Public Library of Science
2011
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Länkar: | https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3116849/ https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21698194 https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0020871 |
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