Wing Shape
An Analysis of Polygenes Affecting Wing Shape on Chromosome 2 in Drosophila melanogaster
... High and low nonrecombinant lines were also crossed Chromosome 1 is still being analyzed. With its sex- reciprocally. This produced indistinguishable hybrid phe- specific regulation and transmission, it may not fit this ...
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An Analysis of Polygenes Affecting Wing Shape on Chromosome 3 in Drosophila melanogaster
... Loci on the third chromosome of Drosophila melanogaster that affect an index of wing shape were mapped, using recombinant isogenic lines, with transposable elements as markers. Many genes with small ...
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Geometric Perspectives of Sexual Dimorphism in the Wing Shape of Lepidoptera: the Case of Synneuria sp. (Lepidoptera: Geometridae)
... in shape (Fig. 2.). The evaluation and sectorization of wing structure using landmarks was the key to determining that it is submitted to a high degree of pressure, both environmental and life ...different ...
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Quantitative Trait Loci Affecting Components of Wing Shape in Drosophila melanogaster
... These results establish that a common suite of genes is responsible for much of the variation in wing shape, independent of variables that affect wing size, such as sex and growth temperature. ...
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Naturally Segregating Quantitative Trait Loci Affecting Wing Shape of Drosophila melanogaster
... the wing disc, is important for the between two lab populations and Weber et ...a wing shape index (see ...in wing vein of the Hh or Dpp pathways (Sturtevant et ...
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Replication of an Egfr-Wing Shape Association in a Wild-Caught Cohort of Drosophila melanogaster
... for wing shape between a lab-reared experimental population and a wild-caught cohort of Drosophila melanogaster, an association between a putative regulatory polymorphism in Egfr and wing ...
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Association Between Nucleotide Variation in Egfr and Wing Shape in Drosophila melanogaster
... of MANOVA were also considered, but their general failure 1. Hatcher’s rules (Hatcher 1994) suggest retention to identify candidate sites suggests that any effects of Egfr are of all nine IVR warps (three per IVR), since ...
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Many P-Element Insertions Affect Wing Shape in Drosophila melanogaster
... Wing shape is the third morphological trait in Dro- changes in bristle number without the inevitable de- sophila to be mapped for natural QTL (Weber et ...in wing shape in ...the wing ...
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Wing shape variation in the mimetic butterfly Papilio dardanus (Papilionidae) and its unpalatable nymphalid models
... hind wing mimicry might be restricted by factors such as cross-sex genetic covariance that could limit wing shape sexual dimorphism in this genus (see Poissant et ...hind wing shape ...
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Enhanced flight performance by genetic manipulation of wing shape in Drosophila
... modify wing shape in the fruit fly Drosophila ...dramatic shape changes that are expected, from first principles, to have important consequences for ...developing wing, we isolate the effects of ...
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Studying the variation of wing shape and size for iraqi honey bee worker apis mellifera (hymenoptera : apidae) collected from baghdad and diyala provinces by using geometric morphometric of wing
... provides a link between the genotype and the environment (Ricklefs and Miles, 1994). There is a strong relationship between morphometric structures and climatic data, suggesting that adaptation and natural selection are ...
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Wing Shape and Flight Behaviour in Butterflies (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea and Hesperioidea): A Preliminary Analysis
... Slow forward flight During slow forward flight both Papilio and Graphium had greater stroke amplitude, mean angular wing velocity and stroke plane angle, but lower wing beat frequency th[r] ...
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Wing morphometrics as a tool in species identification of forensically important blow flies of Thailand
... contrast, wing shape showed to be a stable charac- ter compared to size [24, 25, 30] and very informative on the phylogenetic and evolutionary relationship of or- ganisms ...that wing shape ...
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Morphometric diagnosis of Glossina palpalis (Diptera: Glossinidae) population structure in Ghana
... In the present study, we found a strong structuring of G. palpalis populations between the Northern and Southern sectors of Ghana but a likely ongoing panmixia between populations from the Eastern and Western Regions. ...
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Lift Enhancement on Unconventional Airfoils
... Flow visualization studies in [7] on a corrugated airfoil confirm that vortices are trapped on the airfoil (see Fig. 4) and they lead to a modification of the effective wing shape and an increase in lift. ...
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Soaring and non soaring bats of the family pteropodidae (flying foxes, Pteropus spp ): wing morphology and flight performance
... summarizes wing-shape dimensions normalized to body size (relative measurements) with the bats grouped both according to their flight behaviour and as a species-pair comparison for American Samoa and the ...
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Morphological discrimination of the genera Binodoxys Mackauer and Trioxys Haliday (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Aphidiinae) on the basis of the general shape of forewings
... the wing size, orientation and/or positioning during the digitalization (B o o k s t e i n , 1991) and for each wing to compute the centroid size (CS) as a geometric measure of ...the wing size were ...
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Oriented fibre arrays and shape control in certain nuclei, cells and tissues
... f wing blade fla tte n in g (at stage 5) epidermal c e lls become arranged in p a ra lle l rows This arrangement is unlike th a t observed during stage 3 (before swelling ...anisometric wing shape in ...
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Design, development and testing of shape shifting wing model
... of shape of aircraft structures tailored to optimize aircraft ...of wing morphing is the continuous smooth and flexible change of the wing shape in order to maximize aerodynamic ...the ...
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Shape, flapping and flexion: wing and fin design for forward flight
... of wing morphology that are likely to affect performance are planform wing shape and wing ...the wing. Wing planform shape, in particular, has commonly been associated ...
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