Coordination of flipflopping neural signals and head turning during pheromone-mediated walking in a male silkworm moth Bombyx mori

Journal of Comparative Physiology - A Sensory, Neural, and Behavioral Physiology

Volumn 183, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 273-282

  Mishima, T ^a   Kanzaki, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Flipflop; Moth; Neck motor neuron; Pheromone; Zigzag walking

Indexed keywords

BOMBYX MORI;

EID: 0031695135     PISSN: 03407594     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s003590050255     Document Type: Article

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