Haltere-mediated equilibrium reflexes of the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 354, Issue 1385, 1999, Pages 903-916

  Dickinson, Michael H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aerodynamics; Control systems; Drosophila melanogaster; Flight; Haltere; Vestibular system

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; ARENA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; HEXAPODA; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0033614588     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.1999.0442     Document Type: Article

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