The function of dipteran flight muscle

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Physiology

Volumn 116, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 223-238

  Dickinson, Michael H ^a   Tu, Michael S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; BIOMECHANICS; FLIGHT MUSCLE; FLY; FLYING; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

EID: 0031105356     PISSN: 03009629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0300-9629(96)00162-4     Document Type: Review

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