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ArticleNature2024

Machine learning reveals the control mechanics of an insect wing hinge.

Johan M Melis, Igor Siwanowicz, Michael H Dickinson

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Article in Nature, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 26 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
26citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
45.5field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

26 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 38 citations in OpenAlex.

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  10. Structural dynamics and neural representation of wing deformation.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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  11. How tp1, an indirect wing steering muscle, stabilizesbioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025
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  15. Causal models of rate-independent damping in insect exoskeleta.The Journal of experimental biology · 2025
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  17. Neural connectivity of a computational map for fly flight control.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025
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  20. Bioinspired Microhinged Actuators for Active Mechanism-Based Metamaterials.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Johan M MelisDivision of Biology and Bioengineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-8966-9496
Igor SiwanowiczJanelia Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Ashburn, VA, USA.
Michael H DickinsonDivision of Biology and Bioengineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA. flyman@caltech.edu.ORCID 0000-0002-8587-9936
California Institute of Technology · USHoward Hughes Medical Institute · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Insects constitute the most species-rich radiation of metazoa, a success that is due to the evolution of active flight. Unlike pterosaurs, birds and bats, the wings of insects did not evolve from legs

Indexed as

Drosophila melanogasterFlight, AnimalMachine LearningWings, AnimalAnimalsBiomechanical PhenomenaCalciumFemaleMovementMusclesNeural Networks, ComputerRoboticsCalcium

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PMID38632396
OpenAlexW4394892157

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