Flight muscle
The tymbal muscle of cicada has flight muscle-type sarcomeric architecture and protein expression
... chronous flight muscles of the giant waterbug and other species are known to exhibit a crystalline order of con- tractile proteins, a feature that manifests as discrete re- flection spots in the diffraction ...
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POWER OUTPUT OF GLYCERINATED BUMBLEBEE FLIGHT MUSCLE
... the flight muscle varies according to factors such as the age of the bumblebee (reviewed by Rockstein and Miquel, 1973; Finlayson, 1975; Kammer and Heinrich, ...glycerinated muscle (<48h storage ...
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Flight muscle protein damage during endurance flight is related to energy expenditure but not dietary polyunsaturated fatty acids in a migratory bird
... endurance flight (Gerson, ...endurance flight, nor any effect on flight performance (duration, costs or RPC; Dick and Guglielmo, ...into flight muscle membranes, does not alter ROS ...
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Power output by an asynchronous flight muscle from a beetle
... passive muscle has been found in asynchronous flight muscle of the bug Lethocerus (White, 1983; Granzier and Wang, 1993a,b) and a bumblebee Bombus terrestris (Josephson and Ellington, 1997), and may ...
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Power output from a flight muscle of the bumblebee Bombus terrestris I Some features of the dorso ventral flight muscle
... dorso-ventral flight muscle of a bumblebee is a parallel- fibred muscle, with each fibre running from the dorsal cuticular origin to the ventral cuticular ...the muscle are shorter than the ...
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Cardiac like behavior of an insect flight muscle
... skeletal muscle, cardiac muscle shows an exceptionally steep length–tension relationship that cannot be accounted for solely by the changes in myofilament overlap (Allen and Kentish, 1985; Layland et ...
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The efficiency of an asynchronous flight muscle from a beetle
... unit muscle volume in asynchronous muscles for ...asynchronous muscle comes from a recent study of a beetle flight muscle (Josephson et ...beetle muscle did indeed have a higher power ...
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The Effect of Temperature on Locust Flight Muscle
... The influence of temperature on the total duration of contractions of the dorsallongitudinal flight muscle, together with approximate estimates of the amount of work which the antagonist[r] ...
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A Direct Screen Identifies New Flight Muscle Mutants on the Drosophila Second Chromosome
... defective muscle pheno- also identify genes that have roles in flight muscle devel- type than the ...extant flight gene product, however, is in ...
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Mechanical Properties of Demembranated Flight Muscle Fibres from a Dragonfly
... indicus flight muscles was stretch-activated tension was low and was significantly increased following a rapid stretch of 1 % of muscle length, whereas both dragonfly flight muscle and r[r] ...
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Impaired escape flight ability in butterflies due to low flight muscle ratio prior to hibernation
... of flight muscle mass in relation to total body mass that the animal possesses ...and flight speed in butterflies has been tested previously, yet the data are ...higher flight capacity with ...
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The metabolic power requirements of flight and estimations of flight muscle efficiency in the cockatiel (Nymphicus hollandicus)
... of flight across a range of flight speeds, assuming that the postural costs consist of 10% of the metabolic cost, in order to examine flight muscle efficiency (Chai et ...2001). Flight ...
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Power and efficiency of insect flight muscle
... These values are in close agreement with measurements of the metabolic power input and estimates of the mechanical power output presented by Casey 19816 for hovering sphinx moths: his da[r] ...
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Octopaminergic Modulation of Flight Muscle in the Locust
... This is similar to the actions of octopamine on slow motor neurone induced twitch tension in the extensor tibiae muscle but not to its actions on fast motor neurone induced twitch tensio[r] ...
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Tetanic Force and Shortening in Locust Flight Muscle
... Ordinate: force due to passive stretch circles, load during isotonic tetanic shortening squares, and total force during isometric tetanus crosses.. shorten against this load no.[r] ...
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The Tension in a Locust Flight Muscle at Varied Muscle Lengths
... The increase in calcium sensitivity at long lengths is much greater in partially activated skinned muscle fibers than in fully activated fibers Stephenson & Wendt, 1984, which correlates[r] ...
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Muscle designed for maximum short term power output: quail flight muscle
... For many species of bird, being able to take off at high speed and at a steep angle is an important survival strategy (Rayner and Swaddle, 2000). Rapid take-off is particularly important for birds that spend most of ...
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Flight Energetics of Euglossine Bees in Relation to Morphology and Wing Stroke Frequency
... The present study was conducted to determine the effects of body size on flight metabolism in a group of taxonomically related insects having asynchronous flight muscle and to examine th[r] ...
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INTERMITTENT GLIDING FLIGHT IN THE PIPISTRELLE BAT (PIPISTRELLUS PIPISTRELLUS)(CHIROPTERA: VESPERTILIONIDAE)
... Bats have never been reported to use bounding flight, probably for reasons associated with wing and flight muscle anatomy Rayner, 1985, but there are occasional anecdotal observations of[r] ...
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Neural Control and Precision of Spike Phasing in Flight Muscles
... their flight course for visual perturbations in the environment when flying freely under optomotor ...maximum flight muscle force seems to be widely unchanged compared to ...
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