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The Mechanics and Physiology of Animal Swimming Book

The Mechanics and Physiology of Animal Swimming
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  • The Mechanics and Physiology of Animal Swimming
  • Written by author Linda Maddock
  • Published by Cambridge University Press, December 1994
  • This volume brings together research on a wide range of swimming organisms, with an emphasis on the biomechanics, physiology and hydrodynamics of swimming.
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Introduction1
1Functional patterns of swimming bacteria3
2Buoyancy and swimming in marine planktonic protists13
3The role of fins in the competition between squid and fish27
4The biology of fish swimming45
5Swimming physiology of pelagic fishes
6The mechanical design of the fish muscular system75
7How do fish use their myotomal muscle to swim? In vitro simulations of in vivo activity patterns99
8The timing of lateral muscle strain and EMG activity in different species of steadily swimming fish111
9Swimming in the lamprey: modelling the neural pattern generation, the body dynamics and the fluid mechanics119
10Swimming capabilities of Mesozoic marine reptiles: a review133
11Stone, bone or blubber? Buoyancy control strategies in aquatic tetrapods151
12Functional anatomy of the 'flight' apparatus in penguins163
13Energy conservation by formation swimming: metabolic evidence from ducklings193
Bibliography205
Index231


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