Douglas A. Syme

The whistle and the rattle: the design of sound producing muscles.

Lawrence C. Rome, Douglas A. Syme, Stephen Hollingworth et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 1996 · 236 citations · Full text

Music, Psychoacoustics, Muscle Function +20

Trading force for speed: Why superfast crossbridge kinetics leads to superlow forces

Lawrence C. Rome, Chris Cook, Douglas A. Syme et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 1999 · 137 citations

Stretch-induced, steady-state force enhancement in single skeletal muscle fibers exceeds the isometric force at optimum fiber length

Dilson E. Rassier, Walter Herzog, Jennifer Wakeling et al. · Journal of Biomechanics · 2003 · 101 citations

Mechanobiology, Isometric Force, Muscle Function +12

Mammal-like muscles power swimming in a cold-water shark

Diego Bernal, Jeanine M. Donley, Robert E. Shadwick et al. · Nature · 2005 · 96 citations

Mechanobiology, Muscle Function, Kinesiology +9

How to Build Fast Muscles: Synchronous and Asynchronous Designs

Douglas A. Syme · Integrative and Comparative Biology · 2002 · 65 citations · Full text

Muscle Function, Engineering, Fast Muscles +19