Activity patterns and timing of muscle activity in the forward walking and backward walking stick insect Carausius morosus

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 104, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 1681-1695

  Rosenbaum, Philipp ^a   Wosnitza, Anne ^a   Büschges, Ansgar ^a   Gruhn, Matthias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; CARAUSIUS MOROSUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAM; EXTENSOR MUSCLE; FEMALE; FLEXOR MUSCLE; INSECT; KINEMATICS; LEG MOVEMENT; LEG MUSCLE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WALKING;

ANIMALS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; INSECTS; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; ORIENTATION; TIME FACTORS; WALKING;

EID: 77957195291     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00362.2010     Document Type: Article

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