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3D Printing of Soft Robotic Systems: Advances in Fabrication Strategies and Future Trends

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
Collectively, this review systematically examines 3D‐printed soft robotics, encompassing material selections, function integration, and manufacturing methodologies. Meanwhile, fabrication strategies are analyzed in order of increasing complexity, highlighting persistent challenges with proposed solutions.
Changjiang Liu, Bin Cui, Xumin Huang, Xiaoyu (Rayne) Zheng, T. Thang Vo‐Doan, Ruirui Qiao   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Of microbes and mange: consistent changes in the skin microbiome of three canid species infected with Sarcoptes scabiei mites

Parasites & Vectors, 2019
Background Sarcoptic mange is a highly contagious skin disease caused by the ectoparasitic mite Sarcoptes scabiei. Although it afflicts over 100 mammal species worldwide, sarcoptic mange remains a disease obscured by variability at the individual ...
Alexandra L. DeCandia, Kennedy N. Leverett, Bridgett M. vonHoldt   +2 more
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From Lab to Landscape: Environmental Biohybrid Robotics for Ecological Futures

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
This Perspective explores environmental biohybrid robotics, integrating living tissues, microorganisms, and insects for operation in real‐world ecosystems. It traces the leap from laboratory experiments to forests, wetlands, and urban environments and discusses key challenges, development pathways, and opportunities for ecological monitoring and ...
Miriam Filippi
wiley   +1 more source

Technical Feasibility Study of Autonomous Field Robot‐Based on‐the‐go Assessment of Soil Nutrients Using Ion‐Sensitive Field‐Effect Transistors

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
Autonomous field robots equipped with ISFET‐based sensors enable rapid, spatially resolved soil nutrient analysis directly in the field. An automated system based on the BoniRob platform is presented for standardized on‐site extraction and measurement of key macronutrients and soil pH.
Vadim Riedel, Stefan Hinck, Edgar Peiter, Arno Ruckelshausen   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Are conference special issues worthwhile?

, 2016
Background: Conference special issues are common, yet their value to journals, authors, and editors might not be clear. Goal: Use citation rates to assess the performance of papers published in special issues, while bearing in mind that citation rates ...
Hendry, Andrew P, Peichel, Catherine
core   +1 more source

A stomatal safety-efficiency trade-off constrains responses to leaf dehydration

Nature Communications, 2019
Stomata enable gas exchange for photosynthesis but close to promote survival during drought. Here, Henry et al. provide evidence for a safety-efficiency trade-off whereby plants with greater stomatal conductance under well-watered conditions are more ...
Christian Henry, Grace P. John, Ruihua Pan, Megan K. Bartlett, Leila R. Fletcher, Christine Scoffoni, Lawren Sack   +6 more
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Opportunities and challenges for Registered Reports in ecology and evolution

Nature Communications, 2022
Nature Communications is now welcoming Registered Report submissions from all fields of research (read our editorial here), and we want to encourage submissions from the ecology and evolutionary biology fields.
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A Pentaradial and Bilateral Combined Photoreception System in the Sea Cucumber is Mediated by a Blue Light‐Sensitive R‐Opsin

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
The sea cucumber Holothuria leucospilota detects blue and adjacent wavelengths of light via an r‐opsin with a maximum absorption at 459 nm. In the oral tentacles, papillae, and tube feet, distinct light‐sensing structures with specialized morphologies are formed, constituting a unique pentaradial and bilateral combined photoreception system.
Jiasheng Huang, Chunhua Ren, Zhou Qin, Yimeng Cui, Bingbing Zhang, Peng Luo, Xuan Wang, Yaoqi Xie, Xin Zhang, Aifen Yan, Yang Zhang, Dingding Fan, Yang Liu, Wenjie Pan, Xiao Jiang, Lihong Yuan, Haipeng Qin, David M. Irwin, Chaoqun Hu, Yang Liu, Ting Chen   +20 more
wiley   +1 more source

The evolutionary ecology of metacommunities

, 2008
International audienceResearch on the interactions between evolutionary and ecological dynamics has largely focused on local spatial scales and on relatively simple ecological communities.
Norberg, Jon, Urban, Mark C., Hochberg, Michael E., Wade, Michael J., Strauss, Sharon Y., Amarasekare, Priyanga, Gomulkiewicz, Richard, de Meester, Luc, Vellend, Mark, Loeuille, Nicolas, Pantel, Jelena H., de Mazancourt, Claire, Leibold, Mathew A., Klausmeier, Christopher A.   +13 more
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Differences in susceptibility and immune responses of three-spined sticklebacks (Gasterosteus aculeatus) from lake and river ecotypes to sequential infections with the eye fluke Diplostomum pseudospathaceum

Parasites & Vectors, 2014
Background The eye fluke Diplostomum pseudospathaceum is a frequent parasite of many fresh-water fish species, among those three-spined sticklebacks, particularly in lakes with lymnaeid snails, its first intermediate hosts.
Jörn Peter Scharsack, Martin Kalbe
doaj   +1 more source