Flight muscles and oxygen (IMAGE)

Arizona State University

Flight muscles and oxygen

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Insect flight muscle, captured in fine detail with an electron microscope, showing the air-filled tracheoles that supply oxygen directly to the cells (credit: Antoinette Lensink) 

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(credit: Antoinette Lensink)

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