Contributions of structure and innervation pattern of the stick insect extensor tibiae muscle to the filter characteristics of the muscle-joint system

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 199, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 2185-2198

  Bässler, Ulrich ^a   Stein, Wolfgang ^a  

^a University of Koblenz Landau   (Germany)

Author keywords

CI1; co contraction; Cuniculina impigra; ex tensor muscle; femur tibia control system; filter characteristics; habituation; muscle partitioning; SETi; stick insect

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; INSECTA; PHASMATODEA;

EID: 0030442588     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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