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The aerodynamics of flight in an insect flight-mill. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2017 Predicting the dispersal of pest insects is important for pest management schemes. Flight-mills provide a simple way to evaluate the flight potential of insects, but there are several complications in relating tethered-flight to natural flight.
Gal Ribak, Shay Barkan, Victoria Soroker
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How insect flight steering muscles work. [PDF]
PLoS Biology, 2014 Insights into how exactly a fly powers and controls flight have been hindered by the need to unpick the dynamic complexity of the muscles involved. The wingbeats of insects are driven by two antagonistic groups of power muscles and the force is funneled ...
Anders Hedenström
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Synchrotron Radiation X-ray Diffraction Techniques Applied to Insect Flight Muscle [PDF]
International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2018 Hiroyuki Iwamoto, Iwamoto Hiroyuki
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Biological Characteristics and Energy Metabolism of Migrating Insects
Metabolites, 2023 Through long-distance migration, insects not only find suitable breeding locations and increase the survival space and opportunities for the population but also facilitate large-scale material, energy, and information flow between regions, which is ...
Xiaokang Li, Yan Zhou, Kongming Wu
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BMC Research Notes, 2021 Objective Insects are the most evolutionarily successful groups of organisms, and this success is largely due to their flight ability. Interestingly, some stick insects have lost their flight ability despite having wings.
Takuma Sakamoto +8 more
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A Cyborg Insect Reveals a Function of a Muscle in Free Flight
Cyborg and Bionic Systems, 2022 While engineers put lots of effort, resources, and time in building insect scale micro aerial vehicles (MAVs) that fly like insects, insects themselves are the real masters of flight. What if we would use living insect as platform for MAV instead?
T. Thang Vo-Doan +2 more
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PLoS ONE, 2021 Despite its deleterious impact on farming and agriculture, the physiology and energetics of insect migration is poorly understood due to our inability to track their individual movements in the field. Many insects, e.g.
Patil Jyothi +9 more
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Honeybees modify flight trajectories in turbulent wind
New Journal of Physics, 2022 In windy conditions, the air is turbulent. The strong and intermittent velocity variations of turbulence are invisible to flying animals. Nevertheless, flying animals, not much larger than the smallest scales of turbulence, manage to maneuver these ...
Bardia Hejazi +3 more
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Oxygen Dependence of Flight Performance in Ageing Drosophila melanogaster
Biology, 2021 Similar to humans, insects lose their physical and physiological capacities with age, which makes them a convenient study system for human ageing. Although insects have an efficient oxygen-transport system, we know little about how their flight capacity ...
Valeriya Privalova +4 more
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FMRFa receptor stimulated Ca2+ signals alter the activity of flight modulating central dopaminergic neurons in Drosophila melanogaster. [PDF]
PLoS Genetics, 2018 Neuropeptide signaling influences animal behavior by modulating neuronal activity and thus altering circuit dynamics. Insect flight is a key innate behavior that very likely requires robust neuromodulation.
Preethi Ravi +2 more
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