Mechanism of Locust Jumping

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• Publication year

  1967

• Venue

  Nature

• Publication date

  1967-05-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Physics

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1038/214939A0
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar

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