The moment before touchdown: landing manoeuvres of the honeybee Apis mellifera

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• Publication year

  2010

• Venue

  Journal of Experimental Biology

• Publication date

  2010-01-15

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Geology

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1242/jeb.037465PMID 20038660
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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