Locusts use a composite of resilin and hard cuticle as an energy store for jumping and kicking

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 215, Issue 19, 2012, Pages 3501-3512

  Burrows, Malcolm ^a   Sutton, Gregory P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Fluorescent protein; Locomotion; Muscle; Resilin; Schistocerca gregaria

Indexed keywords

INSECT PROTEIN; RESILIN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; CAELIFERA; ENERGY METABOLISM; FEMALE; FEMUR; FLUORESCENCE; HISTOLOGY; INTEGUMENTARY SYSTEM; LARVA; LIMB; MALE; METABOLISM; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PHYSIOLOGY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; ENERGY METABOLISM; EXTREMITIES; FEMALE; FEMUR; FLUORESCENCE; GRASSHOPPERS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INSECT PROTEINS; INTEGUMENTARY SYSTEM; LARVA; MALE; MOVEMENT;

ORTHOPTERA; SCHISTOCERCA GREGARIA;

EID: 84866249931     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.071993     Document Type: Article

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