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From: The tymbal muscle of cicada has flight muscle-type sarcomeric architecture and protein expression

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Photographs tymbal muscles and flight muscles. a tymbal muscles and related structures, housed in the first abdominal segment of Graptopsaltria nigrofuscata. b-d Flight musculature of Meimuna oparifera. The entire thorax is split along the midline and viewed from inside. b When the thorax is split along the midline, the massive dorsal longitudinal muscle (DLM) is observed. c The DLM has been removed to reveal the massive dorso-ventral muscle (DVM). d The DVM has also been removed to reveal the direct flight muscles (only the flight muscles relevant to this paper are annotated). f-bas, forewing basalar; f-3Ax, forewing 3Ax muscle (steering muscle), f-sub, forewing subalar; h-bas, hindwing basalar. The hindwing subalar lies behind the hindwing basalar

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