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ArticleJournal of the Royal Society, Interface2025

Optimizing energetics of lateral undulatory locomotion: unveiling morphological adaptations in different environments.

Basit Yaqoob, Maurizio Porfiri, Nicola M Pugno

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Article in Journal of the Royal Society, Interface, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Basit YaqoobCenter for Urban Science and Progress, Tandon School of Engineering, New York University, Brooklyn, New York 11201, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-6899-2032
Maurizio PorfiriCenter for Urban Science and Progress, Tandon School of Engineering, New York University, Brooklyn, New York 11201, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-1480-3539
Nicola M PugnoLaboratory for Bioinspired, Bionic, Nano, Meta Materials and Mechanics, Department of Civil, Environmental and Mechanical Engineering, University of Trento, Trento 38122, Italy.ORCID 0000-0003-2136-2396

Funding

Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research (MIUR)National Science Foundation
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Ongoing efforts seek to unravel theories that can make simple, quantitative and reasonably accurate predictions of the morphological adaptive changes that arise with the size variation. Yet, relatively scant attention has been directed towards lateral undulatory locomotion. In the current study, we explore: (i) the constraints imposed by the variation of length and mass in viscous and dry friction environments on the cost of transport (COT) of lateral undulatory locomotion and (ii) the role of the body, environment and input oscillations in such an intricate interplay. In a dry friction environment, minimum COT correlates with stiffer and longer bodies, higher frictional anisotropy and angular amplitudes greater than approximately 10

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Adaptation, PhysiologicalEnergy MetabolismLocomotionModels, BiologicalAnimalsBiomechanical Phenomenaanimal locomotioncost of transportenergetics of locomotionlateral undulatory locomotionsize variations

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PMID40262639
PMCPMC12014235

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