Effect of body length and temperature on the crawling speed of Protophormia terraenovae larvae (Robineau-Desvoidy) (Diptera Calliphoridae)

Journal of Insect Physiology

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 529-533

  Charabidze, Damien ^a   Bourel, Benoit ^a,b   Leblanc, Hélène ^c   Hedouin, Valery ^a   Gosset, Didier ^a  

^a UNIV LILLE   (France)

^b Faculte Libre des Sciences et Technologies   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DERBY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Allometry; Forensic entomology; Locomotion; Modelling; Video tracking

Indexed keywords

ALLOMETRY; BODY SIZE; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; LARVA; LOCOMOTION; MODELING; SIZE EFFECT; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; VELOCITY;

CALLIPHORIDAE; DIPTERA; PROTOPHORMIA TERRAENOVAE;

EID: 40849095860     PISSN: 00221910     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jinsphys.2007.11.010     Document Type: Article

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