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Legged Locomotion in Lattices: Centipede Traversal of Obstacle-Rich Environments. [PDF]
Ann N Y Acad SciWe investigated how centipedes adapted their limb stepping and body bending patterns in a dense array of rigid obstacles (vertical posts). Centipedes maintained a rapid speed in the obstacle array by adapting their gaits in several ways, including adducing their limbs along their bodies to mitigate collisions, twisting their bodies into more favorable ...
Pierce CJ +6 more
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Journal of Threatened Taxa, 2017 Scolopendromorph centipedes (Chilopoda: Scolopendromorpha) are a diverse group of invertebrate communities, which play significant, but often poorly acknowledged or understood roles in the delivery of soil ecosystem services.
Dhanya Balan, P. M. Sureshan
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Centipede Venoms and Their Components: Resources for Potential Therapeutic Applications
Toxins, 2015 Venomous animals have evolved with sophisticated bio-chemical strategies to arrest prey and defend themselves from natural predators. In recent years, peptide toxins from venomous animals have drawn considerable attention from researchers due to their ...
Md Abdul Hakim, Shilong Yang, Ren Lai
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Predation of bat (Molossus molossus: Molossidae) by the centipede Scolopendra viridicornis (Scolopendridae) in Southern Amazonia [PDF]
Acta Amazonica, 2015 Centipedes are opportunistic carnivore predators, and large species can feed on a wide variety of vertebrates, including bats. The aim of this study was to report the third record of bat predation by centipedes worldwide, the first record in the Amazon ...
Janaina da Costa de NORONHA +5 more
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Journal of Pharmacopuncture, 2015 Objectives: Scolopendra subspinipes mutilans (S. subspinipes mutilans) is known as a traditional medicine and includes various amino acids, peptides and proteins. The amino acids in the pharmacopuncture extracted from S.
GyeYoon Cho, KyuChul Han, JinYoung Yoon
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Millipedes and centipedes in German greenhouses (Myriapoda: Diplopoda, Chilopoda)
Biodiversity Data Journal, 2014 A review is given of all the literature records of millipedes and centipedes that have been found in German greenhouses together with additional records for 29 such sites. Species lists are given for 46 greenhouses investigated throughout Germany. Thirty-
Peter Decker +2 more
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Frontiers in Zoology, 2021 Background Centipedes are terrestrial, predatory arthropods with specialized sensory organs. However, many aspects of their sensory biology are still unknown.
Andy Sombke +3 more
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Biodiversity Data Journal, 2018 Recent collecting on the island of La Palma has yielded two new records, Lithobius (Monotarsobius) crassipesoides and Lithobius (Lithobius) melanops, the former also being new to the Canary Islands and is recorded for the first time after its recent ...
Nesrine Akkari, Anne-Sarah Ganske
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First record of Amphoromorpha/ Basidiobolus fungus on centipedes (Geophilomorpha, Geophilidae) from Brazilian caves [PDF]
Subterranean Biology, 2019 We identified Basidiobolus fungi on geophilomorphan centipedes (Chilopoda) from caves of Southeast Brazil. Twelve specimens of centipedes of the family Geophilidae were examined, and two of them carried the secondary capilliconidia of Basidiobolus on ...
Régia Mayane Pacheco Fonseca +3 more
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Centipede catch in pitfall traps with leading boards
Acta Biologica Slovenica, 2009 In investigations of soil arthropods, different methods are used for collecting specimens. During centipede community investigation in unevenly aged beech stand in Dinaric forests in Slovenia pitfall traps with leading boards were used to catch ...
Tanja Grgič, Ivan Kos
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