Bat wing sensors support flight control

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 27, 2011, Pages 11291-11296

  Sterbing D'Angelo, Susanne ^b   Chadha, Mohit ^a   Chiu, Chen ^a   Falk, Ben ^a   Xian, Wei ^a   Barcelo, Janna ^a   Zook, John M ^c   Moss, Cynthia F ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c OHIO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRFLOW; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BAT; FLIGHT; FORELIMB; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSOR; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TACTILE FEEDBACK; VELOCITY;

ANIMALS; CHIROPTERA; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; FEEDBACK, PHYSIOLOGICAL; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; HAIR; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY; WING;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 79960612092     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1018740108     Document Type: Article

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