Cardiac-like behavior of an insect flight muscle

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 207, Issue 14, 2004, Pages 2455-2464

  Tu, Michael S ^a   Daniel, Thomas L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Flight; Length tension; Manduca sexta; Muscle; Strain

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; BODY TEMPERATURE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FLYING; LEPIDOPTERA; MORPHOMETRICS; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; PHYSIOLOGY; SKELETAL MUSCLE; VIDEORECORDING;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; BODY TEMPERATURE; BODY WEIGHTS AND MEASURES; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; MANDUCA; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; VIDEO RECORDING;

ANIMALIA; INSECTA; LEPIDOPTERA; MAMMALIA; MANDUCA SEXTA;

EID: 3542996915     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.01039     Document Type: Article

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