..., duty factor). Phase plots illustrate variability of inter-leg coordination. They show the onset of swing phase during the step cycle in a circular diagram, with the left hind leg (L3) serving as reference. For all groups, a clear antiphase relationship between the two tripods L1–R2–L3 and R1–L2–R3...

... 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. This implies foraging activity during the midday...

... 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. * These authors...

.... Published by The Company of Biologists Ltd 2016 Highlighted Article: Examination of backward walking Cataglyphis fortis ants reveals remarkable flexibility of inter-leg coordination. Locomotion Backward walking Cataglyphis desert ant Flexible motor control Inter-leg coordination...

... 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...