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Automatic control: the vertebral column of dogfish sharks behaves as a continuously variable transmission with smoothly shifting functions
Publication Date
2016-July-07
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Abstract
During swimming in dogfish sharks, Squalus acanthias, both the intervertebral joints and the vertebral centra undergo significant strain. To investigate this system, unique among vertebrates, we cyclically bent isolated segments of 10 vertebrae and nine joints….
