Correction: independently controlled wing stroke patterns in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster.
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SUBMITTER: Chakraborty S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4395434 | biostudies-literature | 2015
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
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Correction: independently controlled wing stroke patterns in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster.
Chakraborty Soma S Bartussek Jan J Fry Steven N SN Zapotocky Martin M
PloS one 20150413 4
[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0116813.]. ...[more]
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