Visual input to the efferent control system of a fly's 'gyroscope'

Science

Volumn 280, Issue 5361, 1998, Pages 289-292

  Chan, Wai Pang ^a   Prete, Frederick ^b   Dickinson, Michael H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b DEPAUL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROL SYSTEM; FLIGHT; FLY; FLYING; LEG MUSCLE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFLEX; SENSORY NERVE; VISION; VISUAL NERVOUS SYSTEM;

ANIMALS; DIPTERA; FEMALE; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; INTERNEURONS; MALE; MECHANORECEPTORS; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PHOTORECEPTORS, INVERTEBRATE; REFLEX; WING;

ANIMALIA; DIPTERA; HEXAPODA; INSECTA;

EID: 0001762507     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.280.5361.289     Document Type: Article

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45. Supported by grants from NSF (IBN-9723424) and the David and Lucile Packard Foundation to M.H.D.