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A molecular palaeobiological exploration of arthropod terrestrialization

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2016
Understanding animal terrestrialization, the process through which animals colonized the land, is crucial to clarify extant biodiversity and biological adaptation.
J. Lozano-Fernandez, R. Carton, Alastair R. Tanner, Mark N. Puttick, M. Blaxter, J. Vinther, J. Olesen, Gonzalo Giribet, G. Edgecombe, D. Pisani   +9 more
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Impact of low-input meadows on arthropod diversity at habitat and landscape level [PDF]

, 2005
In Switzerland, in order to preserve and enhance arthopod diversity in grassland ecosystems (among others), farmers had to convert at least 7 % of their land to ecological compensation areas – ECA. Major ECA are low input grassland, traditional orchards,
Jeanneret, Ph., Pfiffner, L:, Pozzi, S., Walter, Th.   +3 more
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The functional microbiome of arthropods

PLOS ONE, 2017
Many studies on the microbiome of animals have been reported but a comprehensive analysis is lacking. Here we present a meta-analysis on the microbiomes of arthropods and their terrestrial habitat, focusing on the functional profile of bacterial communities derived from metabolic traits that are essential for microbial life.
Mauro Degli Esposti, Mauro Degli Esposti, Esperanza Martinez Romero   +2 more
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Wafer‐Scale Integration of α‐quartz Thin Films toward Super High Frequency Piezoelectric bioNEMS for Chikungunya Virus Detection

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Epitaxial piezoelectric α‐quartz/Si BioNEMS sensors, made using soft chemistry, effectively detect the Chikungunya virus. They have a mass sensitivity of 205 pg Hz−1 in liquid and can detect the virus at a limit of 9 ng mL−1. This development enables high‐frequency mass devices for point‐of‐care testing in healthcare and other electronic applications ...
Raissa Rathar, Sijie Ding, David Sanchez‐Fuentes, Claire Jolly, Charlotte André‐Arpin, Rudy Desgarceaux, Nicolas Guillaume, Gustavo Ardila, Ricardo Garcia‐Bermejo, Jaume Gazquez, Sergi Plana‐Ruiz, Laura Picas, Adrian Carretero‐Genevrier   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

Vertical stratification of selected Hymenoptera in a remnant forest of the Po Plain (Italy, Lombardy) (Hymenoptera: Ampulicidae, Crabronidae, Sphecidae) [PDF]

, 2017
Communities of the canopy of temperate forests are still relatively unexplored. Furthermore, very little is known on how vertical stratification for some insect groups is related to biological strategies.
Cerretti, Pierfilippo, di Giovanni, Filippo, Mei, Maurizio   +2 more
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Elastic Energy Storage in Biological Materials: Internal Stresses and Their Functionality

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
Harnessing and storing internally generated elastic energy is a clever strategy by biological materials to perform functions like shape transformation, movement, and predation. This review explores how biological systems manipulate mechanisms like atomic or protein integration into minerals, protein conformational shifts, phase transitions, and osmotic
Shahrouz Amini, Paul Zaslansky, Boaz Pokroy, Peter Fratzl   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Physiological and immunological responses to Culicoides sonorensis blood-feeding: a murine model

Parasites & Vectors, 2018
Background Hematophagous Culicoides spp. biting midges are of great agricultural importance as livestock, equine, and wildlife pests and as vectors of the orbiviruses bluetongue, epizootic hemorrhagic disease and African horse sickness. To obtain a blood
Christopher J. Lehiy, Lindsey M. Reister-Hendricks, Mark G. Ruder, D. Scott McVey, Barbara S. Drolet   +4 more
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Biological and Biologically Inspired Functional Nanostructures: Insights into Structural, Optical, Thermal, and Sensing Applications

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
Biological and biologically‐inspired functional nanostructures with structural, thermal, optical, and sensing applications are reviewed. The role of nanoscale features in biological materials on performance is described, and their blueprints are used for bio‐inspired nanomaterials, synthesized using advanced techniques (i.e., photolithography, bio ...
Chao Hsuan (Joseph) Sung, Taige Hao, Herry Fang, Andrew Tran Nguyen, Valentina Perricone, Haitao Yu, Wei Huang, Ezra Sarmiento, Adrian Francisco Duran Ornelas, Derek Lublin, Ric Wehling, Sanaz Farajollahi, Atsushi Arakaki, Dhriti Nepal, Nathan Patrick Lord, David Kisailus   +15 more
wiley   +1 more source

Interactive Effects of UV-B Light with Abiotic Factors on Plant Growth and Chemistry, and Their Consequences for Defense against Arthropod Herbivores

Frontiers in Plant Science, 2017
Ultraviolet-B (UV-B) light plays a crucial role in plant–herbivorous arthropods interactions by inducing changes in constitutive and inducible plant defenses.
Rocío Escobar-Bravo, P. Klinkhamer, K. Leiss   +2 more
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The Locomotion of Arthropods [PDF]

Nature, 1891
I HAVE been making some observations on the locomotion of various insects, and find that in the case of those which move quickly the best method for observation is instantaneous photography. Instantaneous photographs of moving flies show that they move the front and hind leg of one side almost simultaneously with the middle leg of the other, while they
openaire   +2 more sources