Jaws that snap: control of mandible movements in the ant Mystrium.

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• Publication year

  1998

• Venue

  Journal of insect physiology

• Publication date

  1998-03-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1016/S0022-1910(97)00145-5PMID 12769958
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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