Wing length
STUDIES ON NATURAL POPULATIONS OF DROSOPHILA. X. EFFECTS OF DISRUPTIVE AND STABILIZING SELECTION ON WING LENGTH AND THE CORRELATED RESPONSE IN DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER
... Cor- related response to selection indicated that thorax length displayed almost the same behavior as wing length.-The phenotypic variability in the selected lines did not c[r] ...
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Wing length and host location in tsetse (Glossina spp ): implications for control using stationary baits
... The above suggestions lead to the testable hypothesis that tsetse of a given sex and species captured at a sta- tionary bait should be larger, on average, than those captured at a mobile bait, since the latter requires a ...
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A STUDY OF THE GENETIC BASIS OF THE SEXUAL DIMORPHISM FOR WING LENGTH IN DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER
... The sex dimorphism (SD) , defined as the mean wing length difference between the sexes, within families, provided the criterion for selection.-The two lines (High SD, Low SD) d[r] ...
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The mechanics of flight in the hawkmoth Manduca sexta I Kinematics of hovering and forward flight
... right wing couples was good; the marked asymmetry described by Weis-Fogh (1973) was seen only during ...large-amplitude wing motions associated with abrupt manoeuvres (as in Weis-Fogh, 1973) and the ...
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... beak length (which depends on how much it is worn ...using wing length and tarsometatarsus length remains satisfactory for males, since it enables a correct subspecies assignation with a ...
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THE EFFECTS OF DISRUPTIVE AND STABILIZING SELECTION ON BODY SIZE IN DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER. I. MEAN VALUES AND VARIANCES
... Sta- bilizing selection (S) on thorax length or wing length did not decrease the phenotypic variance, but the mean value of the selected character declined.- The proport[r] ...
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Effect of larval density and substrate quality on the wing geometry of Stomoxys calcitrans L (Diptera: Muscidae)
... calcitrans wing shapes according to the dung in which flies ...calcitrans wing shape variation ...4 Wing size and adult weight of ...in wing centroid size (i), wing length (ii), ...
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A Comparison of the Genetic Basis of Wing Size Divergence in Three Parallel Body Size Clines of Drosophila melanogaster
... and wing length produced estimates of the additive, dominance, epistatic, and maternal effects underlying divergence within each ...to wing size ...
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... Our dataset contains six morphological traits, including body mass, body length, head length, natural wing length, tail length and tarsus length (Table 1). We used three methods ...
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Relationship Between Body Size and Migratory Fat Stores in Catharus Thrushes
... Yong and Moore (1994) also found a negative relationship between the wing size factor and both the relative size of the birds and the fat stores in between species comparisons. They found that Gray-cheeked ...
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EFFECTS OF TEMPERATURE ON LENGTH OF VESTIGIAL WING IN DROSOPHILA VIRILIS
... The vestigial wing length of Drosophila virilis is modified by changes in temperature in the manner of a chemical reaction. The temperature coefficient (Qlo) is approxima[r] ...
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Unsteady aerodynamic forces of a flapping wing
... The above studies identified delayed stall as the high-lift mechanism of some small and large insects. Recently, Dickinson et al. (1999) measured the aerodynamic forces on a revolving model fruit fly wing (Re≈75) ...
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The moment of inertia of bird wings and the inertial power requirement for flapping flight
... the wing tip, despite the rapidly increasing square of the distance from the shoulder joint (see equation 1), is a result of the marked reduction in strip mass towards the wing ...one wing of a ...
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Kinematics of diving Atlantic puffins (Fratercula arctica L ): evidence for an active upstroke
... the wing undergoes a large pronating motion, as a consequence of the wrist (Wrist) initiating the downward motion while the wing tip (Tip) is still moving ...the wing tip (Tip), which gives a lower ...
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Comparison of male reproductive success in malaria refractory and susceptible strains of Anopheles gambiae
... mean wing length was estimated from a sample of 10 males. Wing length was measured as the distance between the allula and the distal fringe using a compound microscope (50× magnification) and ...
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The lacewings (Insecta, Neuroptera) of Tasmania
... lO9 Hind wing vein CuA not running close to hind margin for at least half wing length; venation of both wings somewhat reticulate medium to large species, fore wing usually at least 10 m[r] ...
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Hummingbird hovering energetics during moult of primary flight feathers
... reduced wing area in moulting birds should cause failure at higher air densities than those of control birds with unimpaired ...of wing loading between sexes; male ruby-throated hummingbirds possess shorter ...
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Assessing quality of life-shortening Wolbachia-infected Aedes aegypti mosquitoes in the field based on capture rates and morphometric assessments
... BGS-trap data from November-December 2012 were sep- arated by sex because males and females were significantly differentiated for wing size and wing length (males smaller than females: median CS 2.19 ...
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Bergmann’s rule and Allen’s rule in two passerine birds in China
... of wing length in males as bio12 (annual precipitation; ...of wing length in females as bio15 (precipitation seasonality; ...While, wing length in male tits decreased with bio12 ...
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Assessing quality of life shortening Wolbachia infected Aedes aegypti mosquitoes in the field based on capture rates and morphometric assessments
... optimal wing/thorax ratios but maintain large adult size need to be ...thorax length and wing ...available, wing/ thorax ratio will probably always decrease since thorax length appears ...
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