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Flight Muscle Allometry

Flight Muscle Allometry is a biological scaling relationship that describes how the mass or physiological properties of flight muscles in volant animals change disproportionately with body size across species or developmental stages.

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Maximum Lift Production During Takeoff in Flying Animals

James H. Marden · Journal of Experimental Biology · 1987 · 443 citations · Full text

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Aerial Predation and Butterfly Design: How Palatability, Mimicry, and the Need for Evasive Flight Constrain Mass Allocation

James H. Marden, Peng Chai · The American Naturalist · 1991 · 182 citations

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Allocation of resources to egg production and flight muscle development in a wing dimorphic cricket, Modicogryllus confirmatus

Seiji Tanaka · Journal of Insect Physiology · 1993 · 111 citations

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Basal Metabolic Rate and the Mass of Tissues Differing in Metabolic Scope: Migration-Related Covariation between Individual Knots Calidris canutus

Thomas P. Weber, Theunis Piersma · Journal of Avian Biology · 1996 · 99 citations · Full text

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Allometry of maximum vertical force production during hovering flight of neotropical orchid bees (Apidae: Euglossini)

Michael E. Dillon, Robert Dudley · Journal of Experimental Biology · 2003 · 79 citations

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  1. JH
    James H. Marden

    Pennsylvania State University, United States

    3 publications · 670 citations

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    Seiji Tanaka

    Institute of Agrobiological Sciences, Japan

    3 publications · 138 citations

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  3. DA
    Derek A. Roff

    McGill University, Canada

    2 publications · 101 citations

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  4. MA
    Maria Almbro

    The University of Western Australia, Australia

    2 publications · 63 citations

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    Theunis Piersma

    Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, Netherlands

    2 publications · 119 citations

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  1. Western University

    London, Canada

    2 h-index

    4 publications

    70 citations

  2. University of Washington

    Seattle, United States

    2 h-index

    3 publications

    195 citations

  3. Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute

    Panama City, Panama

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    123 citations

  4. University of California, Riverside

    Riverside, United States

    2 h-index

    3 publications

    144 citations

  5. Stockholm University

    Stockholm, Sweden

    2 h-index

    4 publications

    126 citations

  6. Hunan First Normal University

    Changsha, China

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    14 citations

  7. Azov Scientific Research Institute of Fisheries

    Rostov-on-Don, Russia

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    16 citations

  8. University of Michigan

    Ann Arbor, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    17 citations

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  1. Journal of Experimental Biology

    4 publications · 604 citations

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  2. Journal of Evolutionary Biology

    JEB · 2 publications · 101 citations

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  3. Journal of Insect Physiology

    2 publications · 185 citations

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  4. Entomological Science

    2 publications · 27 citations

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  5. Journal of Avian Biology

    2 publications · 119 citations

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