locomotor performance
Repeatability of locomotor performance and morphology–locomotor performance relationships
... of locomotor performance (Conradsen and McGuigan, ...average performance could inflate among individual variance, upwardly biasing estimates of ...mean performance reduced repeatability to 21% ...
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Differences in locomotor performance between individuals: importance of parvalbumin, calcium handling and metabolism
... Animal morphology directly affects the biomechanics of locomotion (Webb and Weihs, 1983; Lauder, 2005; Langerhans and Reznick, 2008). Within species, however, differences in the morphology of the skeletal system pose ...
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Temperature dependence of locomotor performance in the tropical clawed frog, Xenopus tropicalis
... Here we use the tropical clawed frog, Xenopus tropicalis, to explore effects of temperature on locomotor performance. Xenopus tropicalis is distributed throughout the West African rainforest belt (Rödel, ...
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Atmospheric oxygen, giant Paleozoic insects and the evolution of aerial locomotor performance
... In addition to the direct physiological effects of variable oxygen concentrations, the physical consequences of differing atmospheric composition are both substantial in magnitude and diverse in character (Dudley and ...
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Differential scaling of locomotor performance in small and large terrestrial mammals
... Locomotor performance has been considered an ‘ecologically relevant’ trait because of its effect on an animal’s ability to escape from predators or to catch prey (Huey and Stevenson, ...compare ...
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The effect of metamorphosis on the repeatability of maximal locomotor performance in the Pacific tree frog Hyla regilla
... in locomotor performance are completely unknown for ...whether locomotor speed and endurance were repeatable across the metamorphic transition (Shaffer et ...burst locomotor performance ...
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The thermal dependence of locomotor performance and muscle contractile function in the salamander Ambystoma tigrinum nebulosum
... Thermal dependence of muscle contractile rates was higher than that of locomotor performance: rates of force development for both isometric twitch and tetanus and maximal shortening velo[r] ...
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Functional relations between locomotor performance traits in spiders and implications for evolutionary hypotheses
... single locomotor performance characteristic in these ...in performance is consid- ered to be rooted in morphological and physiological specialization in animals, high performance in running ...
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A robotic fish caudal fin: effects of stiffness and motor program on locomotor performance
... on locomotor performance, and to manipulate the motion program and to quantify patterns of thrust and lift force generation with changes in tail-beat ...
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Locomotor performance of closely related Tropidurus species: relationships with physiological parameters and ecological divergence
... and T. itambere. The latter frequently locomotes on vertical surfaces and exhibits a comparatively high proportion of oxidative fibers, a trait that may be required for the increased work against gravity. Overall, our ...
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Hydric Conditions During Incubation Influence Locomotor Performance of Hatchling Snapping Turtles
... Mean values for data on eggs and hatchlings of snapping turtles incubated on wet and dry substrates at 29°C Water potential Initial egg mass g Egg mass on day 51 g Days to pipping Days t[r] ...
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Run don't walk: locomotor performance of geckos on wet substrates
... times its body weight, 2 N of force, to run one step (Autumn et al., 2006). Using previous static adhesion results (Stark et al., 2012), after four steps on a misted hydrophilic substrate geckos produced 1.84±0.54 N of ...
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Limits to human locomotor performance: phylogenetic origins and comparative perspectives
... cardiovascular performance of this species hovering in hypobaria represents an exciting target for future investigations of the limits to vertebrate metabolic capacity in the face of hypoxic and energetically ...
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LOCOMOTOR PERFORMANCE AND ENERGETIC COST OF SIDEWINDING BY THE SNAKE CROTALUS CERASTES
... cerastes sidewinding are significantly less than those of similar mass snakes Coluber constrictor performing either terrestrial lateral undulation or concertina locomotion.. cerastes sid[r] ...
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Long term effect of uncomplicated Plasmodium berghei ANKA malaria on memory and anxiety like behaviour in C57BL/6 mice
... the locomotor performance 15 days after parasite clearance and observed no difference in total dis- tance covered or velocity between infected and control ...in locomotor behaviour, although they ...
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Can a single session of motor imagery promote motor learning of locomotion in older adults? A randomized controlled trial
... imagined locomotor task was refined to better match that of the physically performed locomotor ...in locomotor performance than controls, indicating that locomotor-related motor imagery ...
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STUDY OF THE CNS ACTIVITIES OF MIMOSA PUDICA Linn. IN ANIMAL MODEL R. Naga Kishore*, A.Teja Sri, N.Anjaneyulu, Ch.Ramanikanth, A.Divya, K.Sainath and L.Saneela Suri DOWNLOAD/VIEW
... Locomotor activity results showed that plant extract treated mice exhibited significant result when compared with that of standard in improvement of locomotor performance. Elevated Plus Maze is used ...
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Consequences of lost endings: caudal autotomy as a lens for focusing attention on tail function during locomotion
... Given this functionality, caudal autotomy, or the voluntary loss of parts of the tail, might strike some as a particularly extreme measure to employ when escaping a predator. However, extreme measures are often called ...
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Trade offs between burst performance and maximal exertion capacity in a wild amphibian, Xenopus tropicalis
... burst performance, yet negatively correlated with terrestrial exertion ...two performance traits would be expected to give rise to a trade-off in females as well, this was not ...on performance, thus ...
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The effects of multiple obstacles on the locomotor behavior and performance of a terrestrial lizard
... Field work was conducted within the Ocala National Forest (ONF) located in Marion County, Florida. The ONF covers over 180,000 hectares in central Florida and contains the largest remaining continuous area of scrub ...
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