Animal aloft: The origins of aerial behavior and flight

Integrative and Comparative Biology

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 926-936

  Dudley, Robert ^a,b   Yanoviak, Stephen P ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^c University of Arkansas at Little Rock ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; BAT; BIOMECHANICS; BIRD; CONFERENCE PAPER; ESCAPE BEHAVIOR; EVOLUTION; FLYING; FORELIMB; GENETIC SELECTION; GRAVITY; INSECT; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BIOMECHANICS; BIRDS; CHIROPTERA; ESCAPE REACTION; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; GRAVITATION; INSECTS; PHYLOGENY; SELECTION, GENETIC; WING;

EID: 82255181375     PISSN: 15407063     EISSN: 15577023     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icb/icr002     Document Type: Conference Paper

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