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Coactivating Influences Between Neighbouring Legs in Walking Insects

Author(s) -

H. Cruse

Publication year - 1985

Publication title -

journal of experimental biology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.367

H-Index - 185

eISSN - 1477-9145

pISSN - 0022-0949

DOI - 10.1242/jeb.114.1.513

Subject(s) - diagonal , nearest neighbour , anatomy , leg muscle , physics , mathematics , biology , physical medicine and rehabilitation , computer science , medicine , geometry , artificial intelligence

When the movement of one leg of a walking stick insect is interrupted during the power stroke, the force developed by other legs is increased. This effect is shown to occur between all orthogonal nearest-neighbour legs except for the two hind legs. Such effects do not occur between diagonal or next nearest-neighbour pairs. The possible function of these ‘coactivating’ influences is assumed to be to enable the animal to increase the total force propelling the body.

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