Vision and air flow combine to streamline flying honeybees

Scientific Reports

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Taylor, Gavin J ^a,b   Luu, Tien ^a   Ball, David ^c   Srinivasan, Mandyam V ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMEN; AIRFLOW; FLYING; HEAD; HONEYBEE; JOHNSTON ORGAN; MODEL; MOTION; OPTIC FLOW; STIMULUS; VELOCITY; VISION; AIR; ANIMAL; ANTENNA (ORGAN); ARTICLE; BEE; PHYSIOLOGY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

AIR; ANIMALS; ARTHROPOD ANTENNAE; BEES; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; VISION, OCULAR;

EID: 84897552695     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep02614     Document Type: Article

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