AIMC Topic: Insecta

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The effect of aspect ratio on the leading-edge vortex over an insect-like flapping wing.

Bioinspiration & biomimetics
Insect wing shapes are diverse and a renowned source of inspiration for the new generation of autonomous flapping vehicles, yet the aerodynamic consequences of varying geometry is not well understood. One of the most defining and aerodynamically sign...

A tool for developing an automatic insect identification system based on wing outlines.

Scientific reports
For some insect groups, wing outline is an important character for species identification. We have constructed a program as the integral part of an automated system to identify insects based on wing outlines (DAIIS). This program includes two main fu...

A network model comprising 4 segmental, interconnected ganglia, and its application to simulate multi-legged locomotion in crustaceans.

Journal of computational neuroscience
Inter-segmental coordination is crucial for the locomotion of animals. Arthropods show high variability of leg numbers, from 6 in insects up to 750 legs in millipedes. Despite this fact, the anatomical and functional organization of their nervous sys...

Delayed mutual information infers patterns of synaptic connectivity in a proprioceptive neural network.

Journal of computational neuroscience
Understanding the patterns of interconnections between neurons in complex networks is an enormous challenge using traditional physiological approaches. Here we combine the use of an information theoretic approach with intracellular recording to estab...

Evolution of gene regulatory networks in insects.

Current opinion in insect science
Changes in gene regulatory networks (GRNs) underlying the evolution of traits have been intensively studied, with insects providing excellent model cases. In studies using Drosophila, butterflies, and other insects, several well-known cases have show...

Bioinspired adaptive visual servoing control for quadrotors.

Bioinspiration & biomimetics
Since every flight ends in a landing and every landing is a potential crash, deceleration during landing is one of the most critical flying maneuvers. Here we implement a recently-discovered insect visual-guided landing strategy in which the divergen...

Investigating the Limits of Familiarity-Based Navigation.

Artificial life
Insect-inspired navigation strategies have the potential to unlock robotic navigation in power-constrained scenarios, as they can function effectively with limited computational resources. One such strategy, familiarity-based navigation, has successf...

IAMPDB: A Knowledgebase of Manually Curated Insects-Derived Antimicrobial Peptides.

Journal of peptide science : an official publication of the European Peptide Society
Insects, a majority of animal species, rely on innate immunity and antimicrobial peptides (AMPs), which are a part of their innate immunity, to combat diverse parasites and pathogens. These peptides have applications ranging from agriculture to antim...

Combining Machine Learning and Electrophysiology for Insect Odorant Receptor Studies.

Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.)
Insects rely on olfaction in many aspects of their life, and odorant receptors are key proteins in this process. Whereas a plethora of insect odorant receptor sequences is available, most of them are still orphan or uncompletely characterized, since ...

Characterization of double-stranded RNA and its silencing efficiency for insects using hybrid deep-learning framework.

Briefings in functional genomics
RNA interference (RNAi) technology is widely used in the biological prevention and control of terrestrial insects. One of the main factors with the application of RNAi in insects is the difference in RNAi efficiency, which may vary not only in differ...