Mechanosensory integration for flight control in insects

Methods in Insect Sensory Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 107-128

  Frye, Mark A ^a   Gray, John R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

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