This special issue for Integrative & Comparative Biology (ICB) focused on flight at low Reynolds numbers (where a “low” Reynolds Number is roughly defined as Re<100). 

Examples of such flight include flight by tiny insects and bio-inspired micro-aerial vehicles (MAVs), seed dispersal (e.g., by dandelions), and underwater flapping flight by pteropods. 

Various aspects of interest include:

 the aero/hydrodynamics, stability, power requirements, and ecological role(s) of such flight, the morphological adaptations, flight behavior, and fluid-structure interactions which characterize these organisms, integration of flight and sensing capabilities, active flight vs passive dispersal in these organisms, and their response to environmental flows. In particular, we seek to highlight commonalities among seemingly disparate organisms operating in the same Reynolds number range. 

All approaches, including field, laboratory, computational, theoretical, and scaling studies, are welcome.

email for clarification if your paper might be a fit

davidmurphy@usf.edu

email our office for manuscript structure, submission system and deadline matters 

icbjournal@sicb.org 

The deadline for submission is between October 1, 2025 and March 1, 2026 ; we anticipate publishing this collection of articles online in the advanced category prior to their being culminated into a formal issue online.