Papers

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Verbe, A., Lea, K.M., Fox, J.L., and B.H. Dickerson. Flies tune the sensitivity of their multifunctional gyroscope. bioRxiv, 10.1101/2024.03.13.583703 

Dallmann, C.J., Dickerson, B.H., Simpson, J.H., Wyart, C., and K. Jayaram 2023. Mechanosensory control of locomotion in animals and robots: moving forward. Integr. Comp. Biol. 63: 450-463. doi: 10.1093/icb/icad057 

Hedrick, T.L. and Dickerson, B.H. 2022. Insect flight: flies use a throttle to steer. Curr. Biol. 32, R218-R220. (Dispatch)

Dickerson, B.H., Fox, J.L., and S. Sponberg. 2021. Functional diversity from generic encoding in insect campaniform sensilla. Curr. Opin. Physiol. 21:194-203. doi: 10.1016/j.cophys.2020.11.004

Dickerson, B.H. 2020. Timing precision in fly flight control: integrating mechanosensory input with muscle physiology. Proc. R. Soc. B 287: 20201774. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2020.1774

Dickerson, B.H., de Souza, A.M., Huda, A., and M.H. Dickinson 2019. Flies regulate wing motion via active control of a dual function gyroscope. Curr. Biol. 29, 3517-3524. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2019.08.065 (featured in Outside JEB)

Eberle A.L.*, Dickerson B.H.*, Reinhall P.G., and Daniel T.L. 2015. A new twist on gyroscopic sensing: body rotations lead to torsion in flapping, flexing insect wings. J R Soc Interface. 12(104):20141088 (* denotes equal contribution)

Dickerson, B.H., Aldworth, Z.N., and T.L. Daniel 2014. Control of moth flight posture is mediated by wing mechanosensory feedback. J. Exp. Biol. 217, 2301-2308. doi:10.1242/jeb.103770