Flight, Animal

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • Bone-associated gene evolution and the origin of flight in birds. 
  • Comparative genomics reveals insights into avian genome evolution and adaptation. 
  • Context-dependent categorical perception in a songbird. 
  • Curved flight paths and sideways vision in peregrine falcons (Falco peregrinus). 
  • Development of fast singing muscles in a katydid. 
  • Dragonflies use underdamped pursuit to chase conspecifics. 
  • Energetic cost of locomotion in animals. 
  • Gliding flight: drag and torque of a hawk and a falcon with straight and turned heads, and a lower value for the parasite drag coefficient. 
  • Inflected wings in flight: Uniform flow of stresses makes strong and light wings for stable flight. 
  • Lumbar vertebral morphology of flying, gliding, and suspensory mammals: implications for the locomotor behavior of the subfossil lemurs Palaeopropithecus and Babakotia. 
  • Metabolism during flight in the laughing gull, Larus atricilla. 
  • Reduced life span with heart and muscle dysfunction in Drosophila sarcoglycan mutants. 
  • Respiration during flight in birds. 
  • Structural changes in isometrically contracting insect flight muscle trapped following a mechanical perturbation. 
  • The Earth's Magnetic Field and Visual Landmarks Steer Migratory Flight Behavior in the Nocturnal Australian Bogong Moth. 
  • The constructal law of organization in nature: tree-shaped flows and body size. 
  • The deep fovea, sideways vision and spiral flight paths in raptors. 
  • Unifying constructal theory for scale effects in running, swimming and flying. 
  • Why flying dogs are rare: A general theory of luck in evolutionary transitions. 
  • X-ray diffraction evidence for myosin-troponin connections and tropomyosin movement during stretch activation of insect flight muscle.