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- W60781921 abstract "The ability to fly is the most significant of the functional characteristics that distinguish the insects from the other classes of the Arthropoda. The effector machinery for flight in insects differs from that evolved by the flying vertebrates in that wings are not modifications of existing appendages. Insects have retained the capacity for walking possessed by their arthropod ancestors, the ability to fly being an additional form of locomotion. From the physiological point of view, this means that a new neuromuscular as well as a new skeletal system is superimposed on that required for walking, although contained in the same segments of the body. In some insects (in general, the more primitive orders), each wing beat is initiated by a synchronous volley of nerve impulses to the power-producing muscles; in others, the impulses in motor nerves supplying the main flight muscles are asynchronous with the wing beats and the rhythm is generated by the muscles themselves coupled to the mechanical system of the thorax." @default.
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- W60781921 title "LOCOMOTION: FLIGHT" @default.
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