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Insect Body Plan

Insect Body Plan is a fundamental morphological archetype characterized by a segmented body organized into three distinct tagmata—head, thorax, and abdomen—distinguished by specialized appendages and a dorsal exoskeleton supported by a system of internal musculature, defining the structural blueprint conserved across insect taxa.

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Wing Rotation and the Aerodynamic Basis of Insect Flight

Michael H. Dickinson, Fritz‐Olaf Lehmann, Sanjay P. Sane · Science · 1999 · 2.6K citations

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The Insects: Structure and Function

Robert W. Matthews · Bulletin of the Entomological Society of America · 1971 · 2.3K citations · Full text

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Design and mechanical properties of insect cuticle

Julian F. V. Vincent, Ulrike G. K. Wegst · Arthropod Structure & Development · 2004 · 1.1K citations

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The Biomechanics of Insect Flight: Form, Function, Evolution

Robert Dudley · Annals of the Entomological Society of America · 2000 · 721 citations

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The aerodynamics of hovering insect flight. II. Morphological parameters

Charles P. Ellington · Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 1984 · 682 citations

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  1. SN
    Stanislav N. Gorb

    Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Germany

    50 publications · 2.8K citations

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  2. RG
    Rolf G. Beutel

    Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany

    36 publications · 1.2K citations

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  3. KS
    Kom Sukontason

    Chiang Mai University, Thailand

    22 publications · 522 citations

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  4. WG
    William G. Eberhard

    Universidad de Costa Rica, Costa Rica

    15 publications · 1.2K citations

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  5. LF
    Leonid Frantsevich

    I.I. Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology, Ukraine

    15 publications · 503 citations

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  1. University of Cambridge

    Cambridge, United Kingdom

    28 h-index

    72 publications

    7.4K citations

  2. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    22 h-index

    96 publications

    4.2K citations

  3. University of California, Berkeley

    Berkeley, United States

    19 h-index

    39 publications

    6.7K citations

  4. Howard Hughes Medical Institute

    Chevy Chase, United States

    19 h-index

    46 publications

    6.3K citations

  5. Harvard University

    Cambridge, United States

    18 h-index

    45 publications

    3.1K citations

  6. University of Cologne

    Cologne, Germany

    18 h-index

    45 publications

    2.3K citations

  7. Friedrich Schiller University Jena

    Jena, Germany

    18 h-index

    69 publications

    2K citations

  8. Chinese Academy of Sciences

    Beijing, China

    18 h-index

    82 publications

    3.8K citations

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  1. Journal of Comparative Physiology A

    63 publications · 5.2K citations

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  2. Nature

    60 publications · 5.5K citations

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  3. Journal of Insect Physiology

    65 publications · 2.7K citations

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  4. Journal of Experimental Biology

    46 publications · 3.1K citations

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  5. Arthropod Structure & Development

    82 publications · 3.7K citations

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