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SUBMITTER: Colin SP
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7576154 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Colin Sean P SP Costello John H JH Sutherland Kelly R KR Gemmell Brad J BJ Dabiri John O JO Du Clos Kevin T KT
Scientific reports 20201020 1
An abundance of swimming animals have converged upon a common swimming strategy using multiple propulsors coordinated as metachronal waves. The shared kinematics suggest that even morphologically and systematically diverse animals use similar fluid dynamic relationships to generate swimming thrust. We quantified the kinematics and hydrodynamics of a diverse group of small swimming animals who use multiple propulsors, e.g. limbs or ctenes, which move with antiplectic metachronal waves to generate ...[more]