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The predatory behavior of ants: an impressive panoply of morphological adaptations

Insect Science, EarlyView.
This review focuses on predation in ants, showing the wide diversity of cases from solitary foraging to group hunting tactics, as well as the evolution of mandible shape frequently adapted to capture specific prey. Although most ants are generalist feeders, finding their sugary substances directly on plants or indirectly via sap‐sucking insects, some ...
Alain Dejean, Xim Cerdá, Jérôme Orivel, Frédéric Azémar, Alexander L. Wild, Bruno Corbara, Axel Touchard   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Mandibular Shape Variation, Allometry and Modularity in Adult Mesocephalic Dogs (<i>Canis lupus familiaris</i>): Insights into Morphological Integration and Animal Anatomy. [PDF]

Animals (Basel)
Contreras R, Salinas P.
europepmc   +1 more source

Sperm Transfer Under Behavioral and Morphological Constraints in the Orb‐Web Spider Genus Argiope

Integrative Zoology, EarlyView.
The polygamous mating system of the orb‐web spider genus Argiope provides a model to study the evolution of sperm transfer under morphological and behavioral constraints. This helps us to understand how male and female behavioral and morphological reproductive traits influence sperm transfer.
Chathuranga Dharmarathne, Donald J. McLean, Peter Michalik, M. E. Herberstein   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Discontinuous, biphasic, ontogenetic shifts in the metabolic allometry of aquatic animals?

Biology Open
Gary C. Packard
doaj   +1 more source

Can the Timing of the Origin of Life Be Inferred from Trends in the Growth of Organismal Complexity? [PDF]

Life (Basel)
Juckett DA.
europepmc   +1 more source

An Overlooked Habitat‐Dependent Link Between Metabolism and Water Loss in Reptiles

Integrative Zoology, EarlyView.
We measured the gas exchange of six lizard and six snake species, under high and low air humidity, and two intriguing patterns emerged. First, although desert species lose less water via evaporation than similar‐sized mesic species under similar conditions, water loss is virtually the same when each is exposed to its natural conditions.
Shahar Dubiner, Shai Meiri, Eran Levin
wiley   +1 more source

Justo Gonzalo (1910-1986): a pioneer of brain dynamics. [PDF]

Front Neuroanat
Gonzalo-Fonrodona I.
europepmc   +1 more source

Volumetric Comparison of Overall Brain and Neuropil Size Between Social and Non‐social Spiders: Exploring the Social Brain Hypothesis

Integrative Zoology, EarlyView.
Brain size may be influenced by the cognitive demands of sociality (social brain hypothesis). We used microCT to compare CNS and brain volumes in social versus solitary huntsman and crab spiders. Social huntsman spiders had larger arcuate and mushroom bodies, while social crab spiders had larger visual neuropils.
Vanessa Penna‐Gonçalves, Donald James Mclean, Nikolas J. Willmott, Michael B. J. Kelly, Jay R. Black, Elizabeth C. Lowe, Marie E. Herberstein   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

A morphological analysis of the modern human frontal bone from Hahnöfersand, Germany. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Röding C, Profico A, Merkel M, Harvati K.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source