Novel flight style and light wings boost flight performance of tiny beetles
Novel flight style and light wings boost flight performance of tiny beetles
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London: Nature Publishing Group UK
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Flight speed is positively correlated with body size in animals
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. However, miniature featherwing beetles can fly at speeds and accelerations of insects three times their size
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. Here we show that this performance results from a reduced wing mass and a previously unknown type of wing-motion cycle. Our experiment combines three-dimensi...
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Novel flight style and light wings boost flight performance of tiny beetles
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TN_cdi_pubmedcentral_primary_oai_pubmedcentral_nih_gov_8810381
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_pubmedcentral_primary_oai_pubmedcentral_nih_gov_8810381
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0028-0836
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1476-4687
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10.1038/s41586-021-04303-7
