FB2025_05 , released December 11, 2025
FB2025_05 , released December 11, 2025
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Term mesothoracic pleurosternal muscle ID (Ontology) FBbt:00058914 (Fly Anatomy)
Definition Indirect flight control muscle that is involved in generating tension in the thorax, controlling wing beat frequency (Dickinson and Tu, 1997). There are two of these muscles on each side and they originate on the mesofurca and insert on the ventral surface of the prealar apophysis (Dickinson and Tu, 1997).[ FlyBase:FBrf0098527 FlyBase:FBrf0228229 ]
Also Known As "furcoentopleural muscle"
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                            mesothoracic pleurosternal muscle  7 rec.
                             |__mesothoracic pleurosternal muscle 59 4 rec.
                             |__mesothoracic pleurosternal muscle 60 2 rec.
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