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ArticleiScience2025

Insect wing flexibility improves the aerodynamic performance of small revolving wings.

Gal Ribak, Ori Stearns, Kiruthika Sundararajan, Duvall Dickerson-Evans, Dana Melamed, Maya Rabinovich, Roi Gurka

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Article in iScience, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Gal RibakSchool of Zoology, Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 6997801, Israel.
Ori StearnsSchool of Zoology, Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 6997801, Israel.
Kiruthika SundararajanDepartment of Physics and Engineering Science, Coastal Carolina University, Conway, SC 29526, USA.
Duvall Dickerson-EvansDepartment of Physics and Engineering Science, Coastal Carolina University, Conway, SC 29526, USA.
Dana MelamedSchool of Zoology, Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 6997801, Israel.
Maya RabinovichSchool of Zoology, Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 6997801, Israel.
Roi GurkaDepartment of Physics and Engineering Science, Coastal Carolina University, Conway, SC 29526, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Insect wings are flexible, elastically deforming under loads experienced during flapping. The adaptive value of this flexibility was tested using a revolving wing set-up. We show that the wing flexibility of the beetle

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AerodynamicsBiological sciencesBiomechanicsBiomimetics

Identifiers

PMID40124483
PMCPMC11927721

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