Local leg parameters (joint mechanics) during terrestrial locomotion of the quail (walking, dotted line; grounded running, solid line; running, dashed line). Joint angles (left), joint torques (middle) and torque–angle plots (right) over the course of the stance for the hip, knee, ITJ and TMTJ. Displayed are mean values (walking, 32 strides; grounded running, 34 strides; running, eight strides). Increasing joint angles indicate extension, and positive values in the torque plots represent extensor torques. Circles indicate touch-down.
Local leg parameters (joint mechanics) during terrestrial locomotion of the quail (walking, dotted line; grounded running, solid line; running, dashed line). Joint angles (left), joint torques (middle) and torque–angle plots (right) over the course of the stance for the hip, knee, ITJ and TMTJ. Displayed are mean values (walking, 32 strides; grounded running, 34 strides; running, eight strides). Increasing joint angles indicate extension, and positive values in the torque plots represent extensor torques. Circles indicate touch-down.
In celebration of our 100th anniversary, JEB has launched two new grants to support junior faculty staff working in animal comparative physiology and biomechanics who are within five years of setting up their first lab/research group. Check out our ECR Visiting Fellowships and Research Partnership Kickstart Travel Grants. First deadline for applications is 15 July 2023.
Sanjay Sane tells us about his first experience of publishing with the journal and why he thinks JEB is going to play a key role in our understanding of the current climate crisis and its implications for biodiversity.
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This Special Issue focuses on broad biological questions addressed through the lens of comparative biomechanics. Crosscutting through time, this series of Reviews, Commentaries and Research Articles addresses questions from the vantage points of the history of the field, today’s research, and the future of comparative biomechanics. Read the Editorial by Sheila Patek, Monica Daley and Sanjay Sane.
Cynthia F. Moss and colleagues Review the behaviours used by echolocating mammals to track and intercept moving prey, interrogate dynamic sonar scenes, and exploit visual and passive acoustic stimuli.
Keity Farfán-Pira and colleagues have revealed that a tiny region of regulatory DNA in the vestigial gene governs whether insect wings are large or small and has played a key role in the evolution of insect wing size.
