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Muscles, Flight, and Temperature Regulation in Insects. John Cornell. Oxygen Consumption in some Animals. (Prosser, 1973). Homo sapiens. http://missinglink.ucsf.edu/lm/ids_104_musclenerve_path/student_musclenerve/normal2.html. Neurogenic (Synchronous) Muscles. Pringle (1957).
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Muscles, Flight, and Temperature Regulation in Insects John Cornell
Oxygen Consumption in some Animals (Prosser, 1973)
Homo sapiens http://missinglink.ucsf.edu/lm/ids_104_musclenerve_path/student_musclenerve/normal2.html
Neurogenic (Synchronous) Muscles
Okanaganavanduzeei Josephson & Young (1985)
Tymbal muscle of Okanagana vanduzeei Josephson & Young (1985)
Myogenic (Asynchronous) Muscles
Flight Douglas (1981)
Indirect wing muscles Insect wing movements from Wikipedia Pringle (1957)
Vibrating halteres act like gyroscopes in dipterans Chapman (1971)
Dragonfly direct wing muscles Chapman (1971)
Wing beat frequencies in asynchronous flyers are determined in part by the resonant frequency of the wings. Forcipomyia sp.normal wing beat frequency 1046 Hz Forcipomyia sp. with clipped wings 2200 Hz Sotavalta (1953)
Bombus vosnesenskii Kammer & Heinrich (1974)
Bombus vosnesenskii (Heinrich & Kammer (1973)
Bombus vosnesenskii Heinrich & Kammer (1973)
Neoconocephalus triops http://www.texasento.net/triops.htm
Neoconocephalus robustus Heath & Josephson (1970)
Manduca sexta Kammer (1980)
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