Aerial manoeuvrability in wingless gliding ants (Cephalotes atratus)

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 277, Issue 1691, 2010, Pages 2199-2204

  Yanoviak, Stephen P ^a   Munk, Yonatan ^b   Kaspari, Mike ^c,d   Dudley, Robert ^b,d  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^d SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

Author keywords

Aerodynamics; Appendages; Arboreal; Behaviour; Formicidae; Tropics

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; ANT; ARBOREAL SPECIES; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; WING;

EID: 77955408828     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2010.0170     Document Type: Article

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