Biology Department, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA.
Biology Department, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA.
Curr Biol. 2017 May 22;27(10):R371-R375. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2017.04.012.
Invertebrate biomechanics focuses on mechanical analyses of non-vertebrate animals, which at root is no different in aim and technique from vertebrate biomechanics, or for that matter the biomechanics of plants and fungi. But invertebrates are special - they are fabulously diverse in form, habitat, and ecology and manage this without the use of hard, internal skeletons. They are also numerous and, in many cases, tractable in an experimental and field setting. In this Primer, we will probe three axes of invertebrate diversity: worms (Phylum Annelida), spiders (Class Arachnida) and insects (Class Insecta); three habitats: subterranean, terrestrial and airborne; and three integrations with other fields: ecology, engineering and evolution. Our goal is to capture the field of invertebrate biomechanics, which has blossomed from having a primary focus on discoveries at the interface of physics and biology to being inextricably linked with integrative challenges that span biology, physics, mathematics and engineering.
无脊椎动物生物力学专注于对非脊椎动物的力学分析，从根本上说，其目标和技术与脊椎动物生物力学或植物和真菌的生物力学并无不同。但无脊椎动物很特别——它们在形态、栖息地和生态方面有着惊人的多样性，而且在没有使用坚硬的内部骨骼的情况下做到了这一点。它们数量众多，在许多情况下，在实验和实地环境中都具有可操作性。在这个入门读物中，我们将探讨无脊椎动物多样性的三个方面：环节动物（环节动物门）、蜘蛛（蛛形纲）和昆虫（昆虫纲）；三个栖息地：地下、陆地和空中；以及与其他三个领域的三个整合：生态学、工程学和进化。我们的目标是捕捉无脊椎动物生物力学领域的全貌，该领域已从主要关注物理学和生物学界面的发现发展到与跨越生物学、物理学、数学和工程学的综合性挑战紧密相连。
