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SUBMITTER: Denham JE
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6158217 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences 20180910 1758
Animal neuromechanics describes the coordinated self-propelled movement of a body, subject to the combined effects of internal neural control and mechanical forces. Here we use a computational model to identify effects of neural and mechanical modulation on undulatory forward locomotion of <i>Caenorhabditis elegans</i>, with a focus on proprioceptively driven neural control. We reveal a fundamental relationship between body elasticity and environmental drag in determining the dynamics of the bod ...[more]