| Range |
D. hydei 11: euglossine bees 4-16: M. sexta 10: S. sanguineum 12.6: C. splendens 8.7: S. americana 6 %
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| Organism |
Insect |
| Reference |
Lehmann FO, Dickinson MH. The changes in power requirements and muscle efficiency during elevated force production in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. J Exp Biol. 1997 Apr200(Pt 7):1133-43. p.1141 right column bottom paragraphPubMed ID9131808
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| Primary Source |
Dickinson MH, Lighton JR. (1995). Muscle efficiency and elastic storage in the flight motor of Drosophila. Science 128, 87–89. AND Casey, T. M. & Ellington, C. P. (1989). Energetics of insect flight. In Energy Transformations in Cells and Organisms (ed. W. Wieser and E. Gnaiger), pp. 200–210. Stüttgart: Thieme Verlag. AND Stevenson, R. D. & Josephson, R. K. (1990). Effects of operating frequency and temperature on mechanical power output from moth flight muscle. J. exp. Biol. 149, 61–78. AND Wakeling J, Ellington C. (1997). Dragonfly flight. III. Lift and power requirements. J. exp. Biol. 200, 557–582. AND Josephson RK, Stevenson RD. (1991). The efficiency of a flight muscle from the locust, Schistocerca americana. J. Physiol., Lond. 442, 413–429.PubMed ID7701346, 9318294, 1798034
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| Comments |
"Several in vivo estimates of mechanical efficiency have been
made for a variety of insect flight muscles. These include 11%
for Drosophila hydei (Dickinson and Lighton, 1995 primary source), 4–16%
for various euglossine bees (Casey and Ellington, 1989 primary source), 10%
for Manduca sexta (Stevenson and Josephson, 1990 primary source), 12.6%
for Sympetrum sanguineum and 8.7 % for Calopteryx
splendens (Wakeling and Ellington, 1997). The only direct in vitro measurement for insect flight muscle is 6% in
Schistocerca americana (Josephson and Stevenson, 1991 primary source). All
these values cluster around 10 % and there appears to be little
difference between synchronous and asynchronous muscles,
despite the supposedly high cost of Ca2+ cycling (Homsher and
Kean, 1978)." |
| Entered by |
Uri M |
| ID |
109844 |