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The calculated voyage: benchmarking optimal strategies and consumptions in the Japanese eel’s spawning migration by Li, Gen, Chang, Yu-Lin, Miyazawa, Yasumasa, Müller, Ulrike K.

“…Eels migrate along largely unknown routes to their spawning ground. By coupling Zermelo’s navigation solution and data from the Japan Coastal Ocean…”
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Editorial: Science Needs an Inclusive and Transparent Publication Process—How Integrative and Comparative Biology Works Toward This Aim by Müller, Ulrike K

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Fishes regulate tail-beat kinematics to minimize speed-specific cost of transport by Li, Gen, Liu, Hao, Müller, Ulrike K, Voesenek, Cees J, van Leeuwen, Johan L

“…Energetic expenditure is an important factor in animal locomotion. Here we test the hypothesis that fishes control tail-beat kinematics to optimize energetic…”
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Suction Feeding by Small Organisms: Performance Limits in Larval Vertebrates and Carnivorous Plants by Deban, Stephen M, Holzman, Roi, Müller, Ulrike K

“…Suction feeding has evolved independently in two highly disparate animal and plant systems, aquatic vertebrates and carnivorous bladderworts. We review the…”
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Thermodynamics of the Bladderwort Feeding Strike—Suction Power from Elastic Energy Storage by Berg, Otto, Singh, Krizma, Hall, Maxwell R, Schwaner, M Janneke, Müller, Ulrike K

“…Abstract The carnivorous plant bladderwort exemplifies the use of accumulated elastic energy to power motion: respiration-driven pumps slowly load the walls of…”
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Bladderworts, the smallest known suction feeders, generate inertia-dominated flows to capture prey by Müller, Ulrike K., Berg, Otto, Schwaner, Janneke M., Brown, Matthew D., Li, Gen, Voesenek, Cees J., van Leeuwen, Johan L.

“…• Aquatic bladderworts (Utricularia gibba and U. australis) capture zooplankton in mechanically triggered underwater traps. With characteristic dimensions less…”
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Body dynamics and hydrodynamics of swimming fish larvae: a computational study by Li, Gen, Müller, Ulrike K, van Leeuwen, Johan L, Liu, Hao

“…To understand the mechanics of fish swimming, we need to know the forces exerted by the fluid and how these forces affect the motion of the fish. To this end,…”
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Flow patterns of larval fish: undulatory swimming in the intermediate flow regime by Müller, Ulrike K, van den Boogaart, Jos G M, van Leeuwen, Johan L

“…Fish larvae, like many adult fish, swim by undulating their body. However, their body size and swimming speeds put them in the intermediate flow regime, where…”
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Swimming of larval zebrafish: ontogeny of body waves and implications for locomotory development by Müller, Ulrike K, van Leeuwen, Johan L

“…Fish larvae, like most adult fish, undulate their bodies to propel themselves. A detailed kinematic study of the larval body wave is a prerequisite to…”
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Eel migration to the Sargasso: remarkably high swimming efficiency and low energy costs by van Ginneken, Vincent, Antonissen, Erik, Müller, Ulrike K, Booms, Ronald, Eding, Ep, Verreth, Johan, van den Thillart, Guido

“…One of the mysteries of the animal kingdom is the long-distance migration (5000-6000 km) of the European eel Anguilla anguilla L. from the coasts of Europe to…”
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How body torque and Strouhal number change with swimming speed and developmental stage in larval zebrafish by van Leeuwen, Johan L., Voesenek, Cees J., Müller, Ulrike K.

“…Small undulatory swimmers such as larval zebrafish experience both inertial and viscous forces, the relative importance of which is indicated by the Reynolds…”
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Automated visual tracking for studying the ontogeny of zebrafish swimming by Fontaine, Ebraheem, Lentink, David, Kranenbarg, Sander, Müller, Ulrike K, van Leeuwen, Johan L, Barr, Alan H, Burdick, Joel W

“…The zebrafish Danio rerio is a widely used model organism in studies of genetics, developmental biology, and recently, biomechanics. In order to quantify…”
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Cost of Transport of Undulating Fin Propulsion by Vercruyssen, Tim G A, Henrion, Sebastian, Müller, Ulrike K, van Leeuwen, Johan L, van der Helm, Frans C T

“…Autonomous robots are used to inspect, repair and maintain underwater assets. These tasks require energy-efficient robots, including efficient movement to…”
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Editorial: Correction of an error in our production process concerning the article "discovering and applying the urban rules of life to design sustainable and healthy cities" by Langen et al by Müller, Ulrike K

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Hydrodynamics of the bladderwort feeding strike by Berg, Otto, Brown, Matthew D., Schwaner, M. Janneke, Hall, Maxwell R., Müller, Ulrike K.

“…The aquatic bladderwort Utricularia gibba captures zooplankton in mechanically triggered underwater traps. With characteristic dimensions <1 mm, the trapping…”
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Suction Flows Generated by the Carnivorous Bladderwort Utricularia—Comparing Experiments with Mechanical and Mathematical Models by Singh, Krizma, Reyes, Roberto C., Campa, Gabriel, Brown, Matthew D., Hidalgo, Fatima, Berg, Otto, Müller, Ulrike K.

“…Suction feeding is a well-understood feeding mode among macroscopic aquatic organisms. The little we know about small suction feeders from larval fish suggests…”
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Complexity and diversity of motion amplification and control strategies in motile carnivorous plant traps by Bauer, Ulrike, Müller, Ulrike K., Poppinga, Simon

“…Similar to animals, plants have evolved mechanisms for elastic energy storage and release to power and control rapid motion, yet both groups have been largely…”
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Mechanical Ecology-Taking Biomechanics to the Field by Bauer, Ulrike, Poppinga, Simon, Müller, Ulrike K

“…Synopsis Interdisciplinary research can have strong and surprising synergistic effects, leading to rapid knowledge gains. Equally important, it can help to…”
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Form, Structure, and Function: How Plants vs. Animals Solve Physical Problems by Müller, Ulrike K, Poppinga, Simon

“…Plants and animals have evolved solutions for a wide range of mechanical problems, such as adhesion and dispersal. Several of these solutions have been sources…”
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Undulatory fish swimming: from muscles to flow by Müller, Ulrike K., Van Leeuwen, Johan L.

“…Undulatory swimming is employed by many fish for routine swimming and extended sprints. In this biomechanical review, we address two questions: (i) how the…”
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