Wing upstroke and the evolution of flapping flight

Nature

Volumn 387, Issue 6635, 1997, Pages 799-802

  Poore, Samuel O ^a   Sanchez Haiman A ^a   Goslow Jr , G E ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIRD; FLIGHT; KINESIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WIND;

EUROPEAN STARLING; EVOLUTION; FLAPPING FLIGHT; WING UPSTROKE;

STURNUS VULGARIS;

EID: 0030616577     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/42930     Document Type: Article

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