Mandible composition and properties in two selected praying mantises (Insecta, Mantodea)
The Anatomical Record, Volume 309, Issue 9, Page 2298-2314, September 2026.Abstract Insects process their food with their cuticle‐based mouthparts. These feeding structures reflect their diversity and can, in some cases, showcase adaptations in material composition, mechanical properties, and shape to suit their specific dietary preferences.
Malo Roze +3 more
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Bite First, Bleed Later: How Philippine Trimeresurus Pit Viper Venoms Hijack Blood Clotting
The Philippines has a high diversity of venomous snake species, but there is minimal information on their envenomation effects. This is evidenced by the small number of case reports, the poor reporting of envenomation cases, and the absence of specific ...
Daniel Albert E. Castillo +4 more
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Functional and Proteomic Insights into Aculeata Venoms
, 2023 Aculeate hymenopterans use their venom for a variety of different purposes. The venom of solitary aculeates paralyze and preserve prey without killing it, whereas social aculeates utilize their venom in defence of their colony.
Maria P. Ikonomopoulou +19 more
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A New Version of the Ant-Miner Algorithm Discovering Unordered Rule Sets [PDF]
, 2006 The Ant-Miner algorithm, first proposed by Parpinelli and colleagues, applies an ant colony optimization heuristic to the classification task of data mining to discover an ordered list of classification rules.
James Smaldon +3 more
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Impact of the invasive ant Linepithema humile on native ant assemblages on the western slopes of Table Mountain and implications for ant-butterfly associations [PDF]
, 2011 The Argentine Ant, Linepithema humile (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), is one of the world's most successful invasive species and invades undisturbed Fynbos habitats in South Africa, displacing native arthropod species and affecting interspecific associations.
Krahner, André
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Animal Venoms for Drug Discovery: A Constantly Evolving Research Field
Animal venoms, complex mixtures of molecules refined over thousands of years of evolution, represent far more than a simple defense or predatory system in venomous animals.
Mohamad Rima +5 more
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Snake Venoms in Drug Discovery: Valuable Therapeutic Tools for Life Saving
, 2019 Animal venoms are used as defense mechanisms or to immobilize and digest prey. In fact, venoms are complex mixtures of enzymatic and non-enzymatic components with specific pathophysiological functions.
Tarek Mohamed Abd El-Aziz +2 more
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Proteins in Venoms of Two Wasps, Polistes Comanchus Navajoe and Vespa Orientalis
, 1982 1. By means of gel electrophoresis the basic proteins in venoms of Polistes comanchus navajoe and Vespa orientalis were resolved into 6 and 5 proteins respectively, all of molecular weights \u3e 15,000. 2.
Ishay, Jacob S. +3 more
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A New Ant Colony Algorithm for Multi-Label Classification with Applications in Bioinformatics [PDF]
, 2006 The conventional classification task of data mining can be called single-label classification, since there is a single class attribute to be predicted.
Chan, Allen +3 more
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Biological Effects of Animal Venoms on the Human Immune System
, 2022 Venoms are products of specialized glands and serve many living organisms to immobilize and kill prey, start digestive processes and act as a defense mechanism.
Cañas, Carlos A. +9 more
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