Biomechanics: an army marching with its stomach.
A novel X-ray technique shows that the internal organs of crawling caterpillars slide past the body walls like pistons in a new kind of legged locomotion.
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Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK. RScealai@gmail.com
D000818:Animals; D001696:Biomechanical Phenomena; D007814:Larva / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000502:physiology; D008124:Locomotion / Q000502:physiology*; D018402:Manduca / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000254:growth & development / Q000502:physiology*; D017356:Synchrotrons; D014781:Viscera / Q000502:physiology; D014965:X-Rays