Built for rowing: frog muscle is tuned to limb morphology to power swimming

Determining the influence of muscle operating length on muscle performance during frog swimming using a bio-robotic model

(2012) Christofer J Clemente et al.   Bioinspiration & Biomimetics

A bio-robotic platform for integrating internal and external mechanics during muscle-powered swimming

(2012) Christopher T Richards et al.   Bioinspiration & Biomimetics

Trade-offs between burst performance and maximal exertion capacity in a wild amphibian, Xenopus tropicalis

(2012) A. Herrel et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Evidence for a vertebrate catapult: elastic energy storage in the plantaris tendon during frog jumping

(2011) H. C. Astley et al.   Biology Letters

Building a robotic link between muscle dynamics and hydrodynamics

(2011) C. T. Richards   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Kinematics and hydrodynamics analysis of swimming anurans reveals striking inter-specific differences in the mechanism for producing thrust

(2010) C. T. Richards   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Muscle performance during frog jumping: influence of elasticity on muscle operating lengths

(2010) E. Azizi et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Environmentally induced mechanical feedback in locomotion: Frog performance as a model

(2009) Peter Aerts et al.   JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY

The kinematic determinants of anuran swimming performance: an inverse and forward dynamics approach

(2008) C. T. Richards   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Extremely fast prey capture in pipefish is powered by elastic recoil

(2007) S. Van Wassenbergh et al.   Journal of the Royal Society Interface