Gap junctions desynchronize a neural circuit to stabilize insect flight. [PDF]
Nature, 2023 Insect asynchronous flight is one of the most prevalent forms of animal locomotion used by more than 600,000 species. Despite profound insights into the motor patterns^ 1 , biomechanics^ 2 , 3 and aerodynamics underlying asynchronous flight^ 4 , 5 , the ...
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Bridging two insect flight modes in evolution, physiology and robophysics. [PDF]
Nature, 2023 Since taking flight, insects have undergone repeated evolutionary transitions between two seemingly distinct flight modes^ 1 – 3 . Some insects neurally activate their muscles synchronously with each wingstroke.
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Insect flight metabolic rate revealed by bolus injection of the stable isotope 13C. [PDF]
Proc Biol Sci, 2021 Measuring metabolic rate (MR) poses a formidable challenge in free-flying insects who cannot breathe into masks or be trained to fly in controlled settings. Consequently, flight MR has been predominantly measured on hovering or tethered insects flying in
Urca T, Levin E, Ribak G.
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A semi-empirical model of the aerodynamics of manoeuvring insect flight. [PDF]
J R Soc Interface, 2021 Blade element modelling provides a quick analytical method for estimating the aerodynamic forces produced during insect flight, but such models have yet to be tested rigorously using kinematic data recorded from free-flying insects.
Walker SM, Taylor GK.
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The aerodynamics of insect flight [PDF]
Journal of Experimental Biology, 2003 SUMMARYThe flight of insects has fascinated physicists and biologists for more than a century. Yet, until recently, researchers were unable to rigorously quantify the complex wing motions of flapping insects or measure the forces and flows around their wings.
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FluSI: A novel parallel simulation tool for flapping insect flight using a Fourier method with volume penalization [PDF]
SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing, 2015 FluSI, a fully parallel open source software for pseudo-spectral simulations of three-dimensional flapping flight in viscous flows, is presented. It is freely available for non-commercial use under [https://github.com/pseudospectators/FLUSI].
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Insect Flight: State of the Field and Future Directions. [PDF]
Integr Comp BiolTreidel LA +20 more
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Temperature, not net primary productivity, drives continental-scale variation in insect flight activity. [PDF]
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol SciThe amount of energy available in a system constrains large-scale patterns of abundance. Here, we test the role of temperature and net primary productivity as drivers of flying insect abundance using a novel continental-scale data source: weather ...
Tielens EK, Kelly J.
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Synchrotron Radiation X-ray Diffraction Techniques Applied to Insect Flight Muscle. [PDF]
Int J Mol Sci, 2018 X-ray fiber diffraction is a powerful tool used for investigating the molecular structure of muscle and its dynamics during contraction. This technique has been successfully applied not only to skeletal and cardiac muscles of vertebrates but also to ...
Iwamoto H.
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Predicting forest insect flight activity: A Bayesian network approach. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2017 Daily flight activity patterns of forest insects are influenced by temporal and meteorological conditions. Temperature and time of day are frequently cited as key drivers of activity; however, complex interactions between multiple contributing factors ...
Pawson SM, Marcot BG, Woodberry OG.
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