POWER OUTPUT OF GLYCERINATED BUMBLEBEE FLIGHT MUSCLE
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Power output from a flight muscle of the bumblebee Bombus terrestris. I. Some features of the dorso-ventral flight muscle
1. Isometric contractions from the asynchronous dorso-ventral flight muscle of the bumblebee Bombus terrestris were slow and rather weak. The twitch duration (onset to 50 % relaxation) was approximately 300 ms at 30 °C and 170 ms at 40 °C. The maximum tetanic tension was approximately 40 kN m-2; the ratio of twitch force to tetanic force was approximately 0.2. 2. The unstimulated muscle...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Experimental Biology
سال: 1993
ISSN: 1477-9145,0022-0949
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.183.1.77