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Coordination of Contralateral Legs in Walking Crayfish

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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Biomathematics ((LNBM,volume 89))

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In the experiments a crayfish walked with the legs of the left and right side on separate motor-driven belts. Even when the belts were driven with different speeds, the animal tried to synchronize the leg movements of both sides. The resulting effect can be described as relative coordination. A model calculation is presented which is sufficient to describe the interactions between the legs.

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  1. Fakultät für Biologie, Universität Bielefeld, Postfach 8640, D-4800, Bielefeld 1, Germany

    Uwe Müller

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  1. Abteilung Theoretische Biologie, Universität Bonn, 5300, Bonn, Germany

    Wolfgang Alt

  2. Zoologisches Institut II, Universität Würzburg, 8700, Würzburg, Germany

    Gerhard Hoffmann

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Müller, U. (1990). Coordination of Contralateral Legs in Walking Crayfish. In: Alt, W., Hoffmann, G. (eds) Biological Motion. Lecture Notes in Biomathematics, vol 89. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-51664-1_15

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