Form And Function Of Insect Wings

Author : Dmitry L. Grodnitsky
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.4Q/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Form and Function of Insect Wings written by Dmitry L. Grodnitsky and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Form and Function of Insect Wings Grodnitsky offers a comprehensive overview of the functional morphology of insect wings from the viewpoint of general biology and uses these data to help further explain animal morphology. Grodnitsky evaluates functional issues relating to insect diversification, particularly wing structure and kinematics. He discusses recent data on wing kinematics and structure from the point of view of modern insect flight aerodynamics and general evolutionary morphology. He is most concerned with the question of which features of an organism can be explained by natural selection of given functional variants and which cannot.

Author : Marianne Taylor
Publisher : The Experiment
ISBN 13 : 1615196498
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How Insects Work written by Marianne Taylor and published by The Experiment. This book was released on 2020-04-28 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The extraordinary inner-workings of the world’s amazing, adaptable insects A tiny textbook to learn on your own How Insects Work goes beyond the typical field guide to show us not only what insects look like but why. Arguably the most successful land animals—still going strong after five mass extinctions—insects have evolved a spectacular array of real-life superpowers to help them thrive in virtually every environment: Bumblebees’ wingbeats leave a faint electrical signal at each flower they visit to show that the nectar’s already been taken (see page 57), and houseflies defy gravity with tiny leg hairs that stick to the smoothest wall or ceiling (see page 69). In this in-depth, photo-filled handbook, discover the ways insects are even more astounding than you know—inside and out: Evolution Exoskeleton and Body Segments Senses Circulation Digestion Respiration Reproduction Metamorphosis Movement And much, much more!

Author : Robert Dudley
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691186340
Total Pages : 497 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Biomechanics of Insect Flight written by Robert Dudley and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-05 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the rain forests of Borneo to the tenements of Manhattan, winged insects are a conspicuous and abundant feature of life on earth. Here, Robert Dudley presents the first comprehensive explanation of how insects fly. The author relates the biomechanics of flight to insect ecology and evolution in a major new work of synthesis. The book begins with an overview of insect flight biomechanics. Dudley explains insect morphology, wing motions, aerodynamics, flight energetics, and flight metabolism within a modern phylogenetic setting. Drawing on biomechanical principles, he describes and evaluates flight behavior and the limits to flight performance. The author then takes the next step by developing evolutionary explanations of insect flight. He analyzes the origins of flight in insects, the roles of natural and sexual selection in determining how insects fly, and the relationship between flight and insect size, pollination, predation, dispersal, and migration. Dudley ranges widely--from basic aerodynamics to muscle physiology and swarming behavior--but his focus is the explanation of functional design from evolutionary and ecological perspectives. The importance of flight in the lives of insects has long been recognized but never systematically evaluated. This book addresses that shortcoming. Robert Dudley provides an introduction to insect flight that will be welcomed by students and researchers in biomechanics, entomology, evolution, ecology, and behavior.

Author : Alessandro Minelli
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3642361609
Total Pages : 530 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Arthropod Biology and Evolution written by Alessandro Minelli and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-04-11 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than two thirds of all living organisms described to date belong to the phylum Arthropoda. But their diversity, as measured in terms of species number, is also accompanied by an amazing disparity in terms of body form, developmental processes, and adaptations to every inhabitable place on Earth, from the deepest marine abysses to the earth surface and the air. The Arthropoda also include one of the most fashionable and extensively studied of all model organisms, the fruit-fly, whose name is not only linked forever to Mendelian and population genetics, but has more recently come back to centre stage as one of the most important and more extensively investigated models in developmental genetics. This approach has completely changed our appreciation of some of the most characteristic traits of arthropods as are the origin and evolution of segments, their regional and individual specialization, and the origin and evolution of the appendages. At approximately the same time as developmental genetics was eventually turning into the major agent in the birth of evolutionary developmental biology (evo-devo), molecular phylogenetics was challenging the traditional views on arthropod phylogeny, including the relationships among the four major groups: insects, crustaceans, myriapods, and chelicerates. In the meantime, palaeontology was revealing an amazing number of extinct forms that on the one side have contributed to a radical revisitation of arthropod phylogeny, but on the other have provided evidence of a previously unexpected disparity of arthropod and arthropod-like forms that often challenge a clear-cut delimitation of the phylum.

Author : J. W. S. Pringle
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 052105995X
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Insect Flight written by J. W. S. Pringle and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-03 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Heinrich Hertel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Structure, Form, Movement written by Heinrich Hertel and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Wole Soboyejo
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108963447
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bioinspired Structures and Design written by Wole Soboyejo and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-17 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Master simple to advanced biomaterials and structures with this essential text. Featuring topics ranging from bionanoengineered materials to bio-inspired structures for spacecraft and bio-inspired robots, and covering issues such as motility, sensing, control and morphology, this highly illustrated text walks the reader through key scientific and practical engineering principles, discussing properties, applications and design. Presenting case studies for the design of materials and structures at the nano, micro, meso and macro-scales, and written by some of the leading experts on the subject, this is the ideal introduction to this emerging field for students in engineering and science as well as researchers.

Author : Charles William Woodworth
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Wing Veins of Insects written by Charles William Woodworth and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : R. F. Chapman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780340202364
Total Pages : 819 pages
Book Rating : 4.6X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Insects written by R. F. Chapman and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 819 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Andrei K. Brodsky
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780198500896
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Evolution of Insect Flight written by Andrei K. Brodsky and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The hardback edition of this was the first book on insect flight since J W S Pringle's classic Insect Flight was published in 1957. Much has been written since on applied and ecological aspects of flight, but the question of the origin of wings and flight, their structural concomitants, andthe related aerodynamical issues have been confined largely to armchair speculation in a scattered literature. This book is written by a leading authority on insect flight, and for the first time draws a coherent, empirically based picture of how insect flight may have evolved. Following excellentreviews the book is now being made available in paperback.