Medium Flow-Sensing Hairs: Biomechanics and Models

Advances in Insect Physiology

Volumn 34, Issue , 2007, Pages 1-80

  Humphrey, Joseph A C ^a   Barth, Friedrich G ^b  

^a University of Virginia   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

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EID: 37349021719     PISSN: 00652806     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0065-2806(07)34001-0     Document Type: Review

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