FB2025_05 , released December 11, 2025
FB2025_05 , released December 11, 2025
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Term flight control muscle ID (Ontology) FBbt:00052767 (Fly Anatomy)
Definition Flight muscle involved in fine control of flight movement (Dickinson and Tu, 1997). There are 18 of these muscles on each side, including all direct flight muscles and a small number of indirect flight muscles (Dickinson and Tu, 1997). They contract synchronously with motor neuron impulses (Dickinson and Tu, 1997).[ FlyBase:FBrf0098527 ]
Also Known As "synchronous flight muscle"
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 |__synchronous muscle________
somatic muscle of mesothorax  |
 |__flight muscle_____________|
                              flight control muscle  191 rec.
                               |__direct flight muscle 45 rec.
                               |   |__axillary muscle(+) 14 rec.
                               |   |__basalar muscle(+) 13 rec.
                               |   |__subalar muscle 57 1 rec.
                               |__mesothoracic pleurosternal muscle 7 rec.
                               |   |__mesothoracic pleurosternal muscle 59 4 rec.
                               |   |__mesothoracic pleurosternal muscle 60 2 rec.
                               |__mesothoracic tergotrochanter muscle 152 rec.
                               |__tergopleural muscle 11 rec.
                                   |__tergopleural muscle 1
                                   |__tergopleural muscle 2
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