Tethered walking imagines of the mealworm beetle Tenebrio molitor wave their heads in random fashion. If a periodic pattern of vertical black and white stripes is rotated around the animal a regular nystagmic head movement is superimposed upon the random waving, the frequency of the latter equals th
Head movements of the mealworm beetleTenebrio molitor
✍ Scribed by D. Varjú; J. Bolz
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag
- Year
- 1980
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 627 KB
- Volume
- 36
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0340-1200
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