... locomotion Insect Inter-leg coordination Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100001659 Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100001659 Bu857/15 Universität zu Köln http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100008001...

... distinguished in form characteristics and body size. Despite these morphometric variations, all ants, including males, show the same general walking characteristics. Camponotus Worker polymorphism Caste system Walking Inter-leg coordination Ulm University http://dx.doi.org/10.13039...

... swing movements. Stride frequency High walking speed Insect Inter-leg coordination Aerial phases Cataglyphis bombycina , better known as the silver ant of the Saharan desert, the Sinai and the deserts of the Arabian Peninsula, occupies the niche of a thermophilic scavenger...

... in Drosophila is predominantly controlled by indirect mechanisms and that direct modulation of basic pattern-generating circuits plays a subsidiary role. Furthermore, inter-leg coordination strength seems to be speed-dependent and greater coordination is evident at higher walking speeds. The finding...

... Cataglyphis fortis ants reveals remarkable flexibility of inter-leg coordination. Locomotion Backward walking Cataglyphis desert ant Flexible motor control Inter-leg coordination Insects, which are among the most successful groups in the animal kingdom, are mostly all capable...

... to metabolic cost and have characteristic kinematic features and patterns of inter-leg coordination. In insects, the situation is not as clear. In general, insects are able to alter inter-leg coordination systematically with locomotion speed, producing a continuum of movement patterns. This notion, however...

...Martyna Grabowska; Elzbieta Godlewska; Joachim Schmidt; Silvia Daun-Gruhn SUMMARY The analysis of inter-leg coordination in insect walking is generally a study of six-legged locomotion. For decades, the stick insect Carausius morosus has been instrumental for unravelling the rules and mechanisms...