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ArticleBiology letters2025

Energetics of free and tethered flight in bumblebees (

Emily J Senior, Peter Tickle, Simon M Walker, Graham N Askew

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Article in Biology letters, 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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1citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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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

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Emily J SeniorSchool of Biomedical Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds, West Yorkshire, UK.
Peter TickleSchool of Biomedical Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds, West Yorkshire, UK.ORCID 0000-0003-0389-3580
Simon M WalkerSchool of Biomedical Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds, West Yorkshire, UK.
Graham N AskewSchool of Biomedical Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds, West Yorkshire, UK.ORCID 0000-0003-1010-4439

Funding

Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Many insect species are reluctant to fly freely in wind tunnels, limiting direct free-flight energetics measurements to just two species. More commonly tethered-flight energetics have been investigated, though the effects of tethering on metabolic rate are unclear. Here, we report mass-specific gross metabolic rate (assessed as the rate of carbon dioxide production; [Formula: see text]) across a speed range (0-4.1 m s

Indexed as

Energy MetabolismFlight, AnimalAnimalsBeesCarbon DioxideCarbon Dioxideanaesthesiabumblebeeefficiencyenergeticsflightinsect

Identifiers

PMID41218753
PMCPMC12606204

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