Gliding hexapods and the origins of insect aerial behaviour

Biology Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 510-512

  Yanoviak, Stephen P ^a   Kaspari, Michael ^b,c   Dudley, Robert ^c,d  

^a University of Arkansas at Little Rock   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^c SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aerial gliding; Archaeognatha; Evolution; Flight; Tropics

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FLIGHT BEHAVIOR; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; INSECT; LIFESTYLE; WING;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARBOREAL SPECIES; ARTICLE; CONTROL GROUP; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLYING; HABITAT; INSECT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TERRESTRIAL SPECIES; TREE TRUNK; TROPICS;

ARCHAEOGNATHA; FORMICIDAE; HEXAPODA;

EID: 67749143839     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2009.0029     Document Type: Article

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