... ) and accelerations (800-1000 m s −2 ), with midair trajectories consistent with ballistic motion without drag forces or steering. Despite rotating rapidly (5-45 Hz) about time-varying axes of rotation, they landed successfully in 58.9% of trials. They also attained the most successful impact orientation...

... pisum ) may drop off their host plant and assume a stereotypic posture that rotates them in midair to land on their feet. The sensory information triggering aphids to assume this posture has so far been unknown. We subjected aphids to a series of tests, isolating the sensory cues experienced during free...

... mechanism and to check for the influence of morphological changes. T. wilhelma displays a unique mode of locomotion among sponges, without reorganizing the whole sponge body. The overall morphology was stable, and skeletal rotation during movement was shown; this is the first time that such movement has...

... of the ATP synthase, are reviewed. The rotation of the γ–ε central stalk, two subunits that react with the c subunit ring, suggests a model in which γ–ε and the c subunits form a rotor, which moves relative to the rest of the complex, α 3 β 3 δ b 2 a . In such a scheme, the second stalk of δ b 2...

...Tomoko Masaike; Noriyo Mitome; Hiroyuki Noji; Eiro Muneyuki; Ryohei Yasuda; Kazuhiko Kinosita, JR; Masasuke Yoshida ABSTRACT Rotation of a motor protein, F 1 -ATPase, was demonstrated using a unique single-molecule observation system. This paper reviews what has been clarified by this system...

... the leading edge, whereas the centre of wing mass was about 1 mm, or 30% of the wing chord, behind the leading edge. The calculated values for the relative magnitudes of rotational to flapping velocity are also given in the table. Values range from 0·67 to 0·76 in Eristalis tenax and from 0·66 to 0·86...