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Keywords: insect physiology, differences between neurogenic (synchronous) and myogenic (asynchronous) mechanisms in flying insects, development of centrally generated motor patterns, genetic control of central pattern generators, stereotaxic map of Drosophila thorax, genetic control of

wing-movement patterns, physiological mechanisms generating motor patterns, myogenic insects, neurogenic insects (mostly locusts and crickets), flight motor neurone