Function of the heterocercal tail in sharks: quantitative wake dynamics during steady horizontal swimming and vertical maneuvering

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vol. 205 no. 16, 2365-2374

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12124362

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The Company of Biologists Ltd

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0022-0949

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1477-9145

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Accepted May 25, 2002
Published online August 15, 2002.

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C. D. Wilga ¹ , ^* and
G. V. Lauder ²

¹ Department of Biological Sciences, University of Rhode Island, 100 Flagg Road, Kingston, RI 02881, USA
² Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA

*↵ e-mail: cwilga{at}uri.edu

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