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Diet of bird‐like troodontid dinosaurs: synthesis of a contentious clade
Biological Reviews, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Troodontidae is a clade of small‐to medium‐sized maniraptoran theropods that mainly lived in Laurasia (modern Asia, North America and Europe) during the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods and are believed to have had a variety of diets. The uniqueness of troodontid teeth suggests that they diverged from the typical flesh‐based diet of non‐avian ...
Yui Chi Fan +2 more
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Clap-and-Fling Mechanism of Climbing-Flight Coccinella Septempunctata
BiomimeticsPrevious studies on the clap–fling mechanism have predominantly focused on the initial downward and forward phases of flight in miniature insects, either during hovering or forward flight.
Lili Yang +3 more
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Journal of the Visualization Society of Japan, 2000 Flight mechanism of insect is different from that of our familiar system of aircraft, machinery, or bird. Recent studies quantitatively indicated that many features of insect flight mechanism, such as thin airfiol, high beating frequency, and continuous beating motion, well conform to the fluiddynamic condition given to the insect.
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Biological Reviews, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Tick‐borne filarial nematodes are a complex and understudied group of parasites that rely on ticks for transmission in vertebrates. This review examines how intrinsic and extrinsic factors may influence the successful transmission of filarial nematodes in tick vectors, drawing insights from extensively studied haematophagous dipteran vector ...
Oluwaseun D. Ajileye +4 more
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Cytoskeleton, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Elastic tethers connect telomeres of separating chromosomes in anaphase of animal cells. Immunofluorescence staining of titin in crane‐fly spermatocytes, using 4 different antibodies, shows that the giant elastic protein titin seems to be a component of mitotic tethers: titin “strands” extend between separating chromosomes, connecting their ...
Demetra Economopoulos +5 more
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Anchor threads can double the insect flight energy absorbed by spider orb webs.
J Exp Biol, 2023 Han SI +2 more
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Cytoskeleton, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Cooperativity between cytoskeletal proteins is crucial for spatiotemporal coordination in biological processes, like oogenesis. In mammalian and Drosophila oogenesis, proper assembly and function of actin networks require coordination between actin assembly factors Spire and formins, as well as actin‐associated proteins like myosins and Rab ...
Joseph Y. Ong +7 more
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eLifeOptimal foraging theory posits that foragers adjust their movements based on prey abundance to optimize food intake. While extensively studied in terrestrial and marine environments, aerial foraging has remained relatively unexplored due to technological
Itai Bloch +4 more
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Wind plays a major but not exclusive role in the prevalence of insect flight loss on remote islands. [PDF]
Proc Biol Sci, 2020 Leihy RI, Chown SL.
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