Turning Manoeuvres in Free-Flying Locusts: Two-Channel Radio-Telemetric Transmission of Muscle Activity

Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A: Comparative Experimental Biology

Volumn 299, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 139-150

  Kutsch, Wolfram ^a   Berger, Sebastian ^a   Kautz, Harald ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

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ANIMALIA; AVES; ORTHOPTERA;

EID: 0347799257     PISSN: 0022104X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jez.a.10297     Document Type: Article

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