Kinematic Plasticity during Flight in Fruit Bats: Individual Variability in Response to Loading

Jose Iriarte-Diaz; Daniel K. Riskin; Kenneth S. Breuer; Sharon M. Swartz

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0036665

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Kinematic Plasticity during Flight in Fruit Bats: Individual Variability in Response to Loading

Jose Iriarte-Diaz ,

* E-mail: jiriarte@alumni.brown.edu

Affiliations Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America, Department of Organismal Biology and Anatomy, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
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Daniel K. Riskin,

Current address: Discovery Channel Canada, Scarborough, Ontario, Canada

Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America
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Kenneth S. Breuer,

Affiliations Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America, School of Engineering, Brown University, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America
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Sharon M. Swartz

Affiliations Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America, School of Engineering, Brown University, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America
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Kinematic Plasticity during Flight in Fruit Bats: Individual Variability in Response to Loading

Jose Iriarte-Diaz,
Daniel K. Riskin,
Kenneth S. Breuer,
Sharon M. Swartz

Published: May 15, 2012
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0036665

About the Authors

Jose Iriarte-Diaz

* E-mail: jiriarte@alumni.brown.edu

Affiliations Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America, Department of Organismal Biology and Anatomy, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Daniel K. Riskin

Current address: Discovery Channel Canada, Scarborough, Ontario, Canada

Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America

Kenneth S. Breuer

Affiliations Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America, School of Engineering, Brown University, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America

Sharon M. Swartz

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JID DKR KSB SMS. Performed the experiments: JID DKR. Analyzed the data: JID DKR KSB SMS. Wrote the paper: JID DKR KSB SMS.

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