Mosquitoes survive raindrop collisions by virtue of their low mass

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 25, 2012, Pages 9822-9827

  Dickerson, Andrew K ^a   Shankles, Peter G ^a   Madhavan, Nihar M ^a   Hu, David L ^a,b  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acceleration; Splash; Surface tension

Indexed keywords

RAIN;

ACCELERATION; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; COLLISION FORCE; EXOSKELETON; FLIGHT; FORCE; MOSQUITO; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURFACE TENSION; SURVIVAL; VELOCITY;

ANIMALS; ANOPHELES; BODY WEIGHT; RAIN;

EID: 84862583916     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1205446109     Document Type: Article

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