mesothoracic pleurosternal muscle 59

ID: FBbt_00058915

Adult Muscle

The larger of the mesothoracic pleurosternal muscles. It is located dorsally to pleurosternal muscle 60 (Miyan and Ewing, 1985. It is one of only two flight muscles that express doublesex (Shirangi et al., 2013. (Miyan and Ewing, 1985, Shirangi et al., 2013)

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SynonymScopeReference
pleurosternal 1exact synonymDickinson and Tu, 1997
ps1 muscleexact synonymDickinson and Tu, 1997

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