Contrasting tactics in motor control by vertebrates and arthropods

Integrative and Comparative Biology

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 672-678

  Belanger, Jim H ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTHROPODA; CRUSTACEA; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; MAMMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 26644440647     PISSN: 15407063     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icb/45.4.672     Document Type: Conference Paper

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