...Sajeni Mahalingam; Kenneth C. Welch, Jr SUMMARY While producing one of the highest sustained mass-specific power outputs of any vertebrate, hovering hummingbirds must also precisely modulate the activity of their primary flight muscles to vary wingbeat kinematics and modulate lift production...

... in Drosophila melanogaster could explain most, but not all, of the WBA responses recorded so far. 30 04 1996 © 1996 by Company of Biologists 1996 insect flight flight muscles flight control optomotor control Drosophila melanogaster The flight system of Diptera suggests...