Tuesday, December 11, 2007 - 2:35 PM
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Variation in force and speed generation in trap-jaw ants

Andrew V. Suarez, avsuarez@life.uiuc.edu1, Joseph Spagna, jspagna@uiuc.edu1, and Sheila Patek, patek@berkeley.edu2. (1) University of Illinois, Entomology and Animal Biology, 505 S Goodwin Ave, 320 Morrill Hall, Urbana, IL, (2) University of California, Berkeley, Department of Integrative Biology, Berkeley, CA



Species 1: Hymenoptera Formicidae Odontomachus bauri (trap-jaw ants)