ReviewFrontiers in physiology2020
Evolution of Flight Muscle Contractility and Energetic Efficiency.
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- From Development to Regeneration: Insights into Flight Muscle Adaptations from Bat Muscle Cell Lines.Cells · 2025Article
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- Potential of edible insects as alternative protein source for the older adults.Current research in food science · 2025Review
- Subtle frequency matching reveals resonant phenomenon in the flight of Odonata.Journal of the Royal Society, Interface · 2024Article
- Insect Flight: State of the Field and Future Directions.Integrative and comparative biology · 2024Article
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- Effects of tag mass on the physiology and behaviour of common noctule bats.Movement ecology · 2024Article
- First transcriptomic insight into the working muscles of racing pigeons during a competition flight.Molecular biology reports · 2024Article
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- High-quality genome assemblies provide clues on the evolutionary advantage of blue peafowl over green peafowl.Heliyon · 2023Article
- Systemic changes in cell size throughout the body of Drosophila melanogaster associated with mutations in molecular cell cycle regulators.Scientific reports · 2023Article
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Abstract
The powered flight of animals requires efficient and sustainable contractions of the wing muscles of various flying species. Despite their high degree of phylogenetic divergence, flight muscles in insects and vertebrates are striated muscles with similarly specialized sarcomeric structure and basic mechanisms of contraction and relaxation. Comparative studies examining flight muscles together with other striated muscles can provide valuable insights into the fundamental mechanisms of muscle contraction and energetic efficiency. Here, we conducted a literature review and data mining to investigate the independent emergence and evolution of flight muscles in insects, birds, and bats, and the likely molecular basis of their contractile features and energetic efficiency. Bird and bat flight muscles have different metabolic rates that reflect differences in energetic efficiencies while having similar contractile machinery that is under the selection of similar natural environments. The significantly lower efficiency of insect flight muscles along with minimized energy expenditure in Ca
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