...Felipe Tapia; Jesús Olivares; Oliver Schmachtenberg ABSTRACT Spiders are a large group of arthropods and nearly omnipresent in warm and temperate climates. They rely on tactile and visual information to hunt and breed, but compared with their mechanical senses, little is known about their visual...

... on the substrate resulted in a breaking momentum, which was compensated by the legs. Future investigations will reveal, whether the identified pattern is due to specialization. * Author for correspondence (e-mail: lars.reinhardt@uni-jena.de ) 16 5 2009 2009 Formica polyctena arthropods...

... locomotion biomechanics insects arthropods cockroach running Blaberus discoidalis Two-, four-, six- and eight-legged animals accelerate and decelerate their bodies in similar ways during constant average-speed terrestrial locomotion as they move like inverted pendulums and bouncing spring...

...R. J. Full; A. Yamauchi; D. L. Jindrich ABSTRACT Integrating studies of mechanics, neural control and isolated muscle function are possible using arthropod legs. To evaluate leg performance, we measured the ground reaction forces generated by individual legs of the six-legged cockroach Blaberus...

... during wedging. 03 02 1995 ©The Company of Biologists Limited 1995 locomotion mechanics force arthropods computer model Major advances in the study of neural control ( Arbas et al. 1995 ), isolated muscle function ( Delcomyn, 1982 ; Josephson, 1993 ; Full, 1995...

...: From bipeds to polypeds . In Energy Transformation in Cells and Animals (ed. W. Wieser and E. Gnaiger ), pp. 175 – 182 . Stuttgart: Thieme Verlag. Full , R. J. ( 1993 ). Integration of individual leg dynamics with whole bdy movement in arthropod locomotion . In Biological...

... way as one leg of a biped. 22 2 1991 © 1991 by Company of Biologists 1991 locomotion mechanics muscle arthropods Blaberus discoidalis . Whole-body mechanics in two-, four-, six- and eight-legged runners can be remarkably similar, despite variations in body form...

... of Biologists 1991 locomotion arthropods dynamics energetics Periplaneta americana Animals that vary in leg number, leg orientation, body shape and skeletal type show similarities in the mechanics of terrestrial locomotion when the effect of body mass is removed ( Full, 1989...

... , 301 – 318 . 10.1242/jeb.138.1.301 Herreid , C. F. ( 1981 ). Energetics of pedestrian arthropods . In Locomotion Energetics of Arthropods (ed. C. F. Herreid and C. R. Fourtner ), pp. 491 – 526 . New York : Plenum Press . Herreid , C. F. and Full , R. J...

...Reinhard Blickhan; Robert J. Full ABSTRACT Terrestrial locomotion involving appendages has evolved independently in vertebrates and arthropods. Differences in the mechanical design of the locomotor apparatus could impose constraints on the energetics of locomotion. The mechanical energy...

...Robert J. Full ABSTRACT Arthropods possess spectacular diversity in locomotor design. Yet it is not clear what unique constraints, if any, variation in design imposes on mechanics, metabolic energy cost or endurance during terrestrial locomotion. In the present study metabolic energy cost...