Saccadic head rotations during walking in the stalk-eyed fly (Cyrtodiopsis dalmanni)

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 276, Issue 1662, 2009, Pages 1643-1649

  Ribak, Gal ^a,b   Egge, Alison R ^a   Swallow, John G ^a  

^a W O Farber Center for Civic Leadership   (United States)

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Diopsidae; Locomotion; Moment of inertia; Saccade; Sexual selection

Indexed keywords

FLY; KINEMATICS; LOCOMOTION; MOTILITY; ORIENTATION BEHAVIOR; SEX-RELATED DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL SELECTION;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FILM; FLY; GAZE; HEAD MOVEMENT; KINEMATICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL SELECTION; VELOCITY; VISUAL ORIENTATION; WALKING;

DIOPSIDAE; TELEOPSIS DALMANNI;

ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; DIPTERA; EYE; FEMALE; HEAD; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; ROTATION; SACCADES; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; WALKING;

EID: 66349108174     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2008.1721     Document Type: Article

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