The femur-tibia control system in a proscopiid (Caelifera, Orthoptera): A test for assumptions on the functional basis and evolution of twig mimesis in stick insects

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 204, Issue 22, 2001, Pages 3815-3828

  Wolf, Harald ^a   Bässler, Ulrich ^a   Spieß, Roland ^a   Kittmann, Rolf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Behaviour; Catalepsy; Evolution; Gain control; Movement control; Phytomimesis; Postural control; Prosarthria teretrirostris; Proscopiid; Stick insect

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; FEMUR; HISTOLOGY; MALE; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); ORTHOPTERA; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT; TIBIA;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; FEMUR; MALE; MOVEMENT; ORTHOPTERA; PLANTS; POSTURE; TIBIA;

ANIMALIA; CAELIFERA; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; ORTHOPTERA; PHASMATODEA; PROSARTHRIA TERETRIROSTRIS;

EID: 0035746166     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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