Fruit Fly (IMAGE)

University of Münster

Fruit Fly

Caption

Lengthwise cut through the thorax of a fruit fly having an inserted force sensor in the talin protein. The force sensor on the muscle-tendon connections is green and the flight muscles are magenta.

Credit

S. Lemke et al.

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