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Flight Muscle and Wing Mechanical Properties are Involved in Flightlessness of the Domestic Silkmoth, Bombyx mori

Flight loss has occurred in many winged insect taxa. The flightless silkmoth Bombyx mori, is domesticated from the wild silkmoth, Bombyx mandarina, which can fly. In this paper, we studied morphological characteristics attributed to flightlessness in silkmoths. Three domestic flightless B. mori stra...

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Autores principales: Lu, Kunpeng, Liang, Shubo, Han, Minjin, Wu, Chunman, Song, Jiangbo, Li, Chunlin, Wu, Songyuan, He, Songzhen, Ren, Jianyu, Hu, Hai, Shen, Jianghong, Tong, Xiaoling, Dai, Fangyin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7240457/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32252362
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/insects11040220