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Some prey species have evolved background matching, that is they resemble their surrounding environment in terms of colour and/or brightness. When prey populations inhabit patchy environments, they may even have evolved specialised phenotypes: each phenotype matching a specific subset of patches.
Lilian Cabon, Holger Schielzeth
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Published as part of Hemp, Claudia, 2013, Annotated list of Ensifera (Orthoptera) and further records on Caelifera (Orthoptera) of Mt Kilimanjaro, Tanzania, pp.
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Notes on the Acrididae of New England.—II.— Tryxalinae.—VI [PDF]
(Uploaded by Plazi from the Biodiversity Heritage Library) No abstract provided.
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The central-marginal hypothesis in acridid Orthoptera: A critique of Colombo's (2012) article
We discuss and criticise the contention of Colombo (2012) that the central-marginal model does not apply to three species of chromosomally polymorphic acridid grasshoppers, and that chromosomal clines in these species are a consequence of temperature ...
Claudio J. BIDAU, Dardo A. MARTÍ
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In this study, we assembled a complete 16,143 bp mitochondrial genome for Chorthippus fallax (Zuboxsky), which encodes 13 protein-coding genes, 22 tRNAs, 12S and 16S rRNAs and a 722 bp D-loop in the characteristic arrangement of superfamily Acrididae ...
Jialu Deng +5 more
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Insects and Survival: A Review of Primary and Secondary Defense Strategies
Based on a review of three decades of literature, insect defense mechanisms are classified into primary (I) and secondary (II) mechanisms of behavioral, morphological, and chemical nature. These mechanisms have been recorded in 22 (I) and 20 (II) orders, respectively.
Lucas Fernandes Silva +3 more
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Respiratory metabolism of developing eggs of Schistocerca gregaria has been individually monitored by means of scanning microrespirography. The freshly oviposited eggs consumed 7 nl of O2 /min./egg (50 µl O2/g/h) while the pharate 1st instar larvae ...
Karel SLÁMA
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New insects including invasive species for the fauna of Rostov Region (Russia) [PDF]
Data about new insects including invasive species for the fauna of Rostov Region (Russia) are considered. Distribution of invasive pest Aproceros leucopoda is studied.
K.S. Artokhin +2 more
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Habitus of each life stage of Ophraella communa on Ambrosia artemisiifolia in the wild. (A) Egg mass; (B) larva; (C) pupae; (D) adult (scale bar = 5.0 mm). ABSTRACT The ragweed leaf beetle Ophraella communa LeSage is an exotic species reported to have been introduced to Korea in 2002. It has spread and inhabits the entire Korean Peninsula using ragweed,
Tae Hwa Kang, Sun Jae Park
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Diversity of Resilin Incidence in the Insect Leg
Resilin incidences in the insect cuticle are commonly detected by fluorescence microscopy using the property of Resilin protein matrices to emit blue light after excitation with UV light. This indirect method produces significant background signal.
Steven Lerch, Bernard Moussian
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