• A metachronal swimming or metachronal rowing is the swimming technique used by animals with multiple pairs of swimming legs. In this technique, appendages...
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  • A metachronal rhythm or metachronal wave refers to wavy movements produced by the sequential action (as opposed to synchronized) of structures such as...
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    outdoor surfaces, and Pleobot, a shrimp-inspired robot to study metachronal swimming and the ecological impacts of this propulsive gait on the environment...
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    Monica (13 June 2023). "Pleobot: a modular robotic solution for metachronal swimming". Scientific Reports. 13 (1): 9574. Bibcode:2023NatSR..13.9574O....
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    diagonally opposite pairs of legs swing together. Wave (sometimes called a metachronal wave) describes walking where only 1 leg enters swing at a time. This...
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    Monica (June 13, 2023). "Pleobot: a modular robotic solution for metachronal swimming". Scientific Reports. 13 (1): 9574. Bibcode:2023NatSR..13.9574O....
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    ; Peshkov, A.; Wright, E.; McGaffigan, S. (2021). "Metachronal waves in concentrations of swimming Turbatrix aceti nematodes and an oscillator chain model...
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    have been investigated for their maneuverability and swimming. These shrimp swim metachronally, creating an appendage wave, starting with the pleopod...
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    together on an individual organism, they display collective behavior in a metachronal rhythm. This means the deformation of one cilium is in phase with the...
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  • mechanical action having the appearance of a traveling wave is called a metachronal rhythm or wave, and is employed in nature by ciliates for transport,...
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