The evolution of insect flight

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The evolution of insect flight

Andrei K. Brodsky

Oxford University Press, 1994

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注記

"Oxford science publications" -- cover

"Translated by S. Scalon" -- pref.

Bibliography: p. [214]-222

Includes indexes

内容説明・目次

内容説明

By uniting fossil, structural, and phylogenetic information with empirical studies this work draws a coherent, empirically-based picture of how insect flight may have evolved. Entomologists, evolutionary biologists, biomechanicists, taxonomists should find this book of value.

目次

  • Introduction
  • Part I Basic principles of insect flight
  • Structure of the wing apparatus
  • Mode of action of the wing apparatus
  • The aerodynamics of insect flight
  • Flight and behaviour
  • Part II The evolution of insect flight
  • The origins of flight and wings in insects
  • Early forms of flight
  • Flight based in hindwings
  • From functionally four-winged to functionally two-winged flight
  • Progress in insect flight
  • Looking into the past: the process of evolution, and insect wing apparatus.

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詳細情報

  • NII書誌ID(NCID)
    BA22927639
  • ISBN
    • 0198546815
  • LCCN
    93024790
  • 出版国コード
    uk
  • タイトル言語コード
    eng
  • 本文言語コード
    eng
  • 原本言語コード
    rus
  • 出版地
    Oxford ; Tokyo
  • ページ数/冊数
    xiv, 229 p.
  • 大きさ
    26 cm
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