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Tuning Gastropod Locomotion: Modeling The Influence Of Mucus Rheology on the Cost of Crawling
(2007-05-04)
Common gastropods such as snails crawl on a solid substrate by propagating muscular waves of shear stress on a viscoelastic mucus. Producing the mucus accounts for the largest component in the gastropod’s energy budget, ...