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Insects, 2020 Mating disruption of Cadra cautella (Walk.) (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae) using its sex pheromone components, (Z, E)-9,12-tetradecadienyl acetate (ZETA) and (Z)-9-tetradecadien-1-yl acetate (ZTA), is successful in its population management.
Abeysinghe M. P. Sammani +4 more
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Crab Species-Specific Excavation and Architecture of Burrows in Restored Mangrove Habitat
Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 2023 Burrowing crabs are considered to be ecosystem engineers, playing a vital role in mangrove ecosystems through bio-geochemical transformation. This process depends on the size and shape of burrows.
Wah Wah Min +2 more
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Frontiers in Pharmacology, 2021 For patients suffering with chronic neuropathic pain the need for suitable novel therapies is imperative. Over recent years a contributing factor for the lack of development of new analgesics for neuropathic pain has been the mismatch of primary ...
Amy S. Fisher +4 more
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Efficient reciprocating burrowing with anisotropic origami feet
Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 2023 Origami folding is an ancient art which holds promise for creating compliant and adaptable mechanisms, but has yet to be extensively studied for granular environments.
Sareum Kim +3 more
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Polyploidy breaks speciation barriers in Australian burrowing frogs Neobatrachus [PDF]
, 2020 Polyploidy has played an important role in evolution across the tree of life but it is still unclear how polyploid lineages may persist after their initial formation.
Booker, William +11 more
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Dynamics of digging in wet soil [PDF]
, 2010 Numerous animals live in, and locomote through, subsea soils. To move in a medium dominated by frictional interactions, many of these animals have adopted unique burrowing strategies.
A.E. Hosoi +17 more
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Mysterious Morphology: An Investigation of the Octopus Keel and Its Association with Burrowing
Biology, 2023 The octopus keel is a trait that has been hypothesized to be connected with burrowing in octopuses, but has never been explored in any detail. We investigated the association between these two traits using two approaches.
Cheyne Springbett +4 more
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An Annotated Checklist of the Crayfishes (Decapoda: Cambaridae) of Arkansas [PDF]
, 2017 Prior to the present study, 56 species with 3 additional subspecies for a total of 59 different taxa of crayfishes were recognized from Arkansas. We add a single species (Carmel Crayfish, Fallicambarus schusteri) to that list, subtract a documented ...
Crandall, Keith A. +2 more
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Evaluating captive-release strategies for the Western Burrowing Owl (Athene cunicularia hypugaea)
Avian Conservation and Ecology, 2023 Quantitatively evaluating and monitoring augmentation efforts are critical for conservation success. We formally evaluated the success of two Western Burrowing Owl (Athene cunicularia hypugaea) population augmentation programs in Manitoba and British ...
Breanna E. Pyott +5 more
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Effects of Friction Anisotropy on Upward Burrowing Behavior of Soft Robots in Granular Materials
Advanced Intelligent Systems, 2020 Skins with asymmetric kirigami scales and soft spikes are integrated to the surface of a base self‐burrowing robot, which consists of a soft one‐segment extending actuator.
Sichuan Huang +7 more
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