Cell lineage analysis of the mandibular segment of the amphipod
Frontiers in Zoology, 2006 The question of arthropod head segmentation has become one of the central issues in Evolutionary Developmental Biology. The number of theories pertaining to head segments progressively enlarges, old concepts have been revitalized, and nearly every ...
Scholtz Gerhard, Wolff Carsten
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The feeding apparatus of ants: an overview of structure and function. [PDF]
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci, 2023 Ants are a dominant family of eusocial terrestrial insects with a diversity of ecologies, lifestyles and morphologies. Ant diet preferences range from strict carnivory through omnivory to almost complete herbivory in species feeding on seeds or exudates ...
Richter A, Economo EP.
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Evolution of flexible biting in hyperdiverse parasitoid wasps. [PDF]
Proc Biol Sci, 2022 One key event in insect evolution was the development of mandibles with two joints, which allowed powerful biting but restricted their movement to a single degree of freedom.
van de Kamp T +11 more
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168 million years old "marine lice" and the evolution of parasitism within isopods. [PDF]
BMC Evol Biol, 2017 BACKGROUND: Isopods (woodlice, slaters and their relatives) are common crustaceans and abundant in numerous habitats. They employ a variety of lifestyles including free-living scavengers and predators but also obligate parasites.
Nagler C, Hyžný M, Haug JT.
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Unique Fine Morphology of Mouthparts in Haematoloecha nigrorufa (Stål) (Hemiptera: Reduviidae) Adapted to Millipede Feeding. [PDF]
Insects, 2020 Millipede assassin bugs are a diverse group of specialized millipede predators. However, the feeding behavior of Ectrichodiinae remains poorly known, especially how the mouthpart structures relate to various functions in feeding.
Wang Y +4 more
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Life habits, hox genes, and affinities of a 311 million-year-old holometabolan larva. [PDF]
BMC Evol Biol, 2015 Citation: Haug, J. T., Labandeira, C. C., Santiago-Blay, J. A., Haug, C., & Brown, S. (2015). Life habits, hox genes, and affinities of a 311 million-year-old holometabolan larva. Bmc Evolutionary Biology, 15, 10. doi:10.1186/s12862-015-0428-8Background:
Haug JT +4 more
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The functional head of the Cambrian radiodontan (stem-group Euarthropoda) Amplectobelua symbrachiata. [PDF]
BMC Evol Biol, 2017 © The Author(s). 2017. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium ...
Cong P, Daley AC, Edgecombe GD, Hou X.
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The presumed oldest flying insect: more likely a myriapod? [PDF]
PeerJ, 2017 The early fossil record of insects is scarce, with only few finds in the Devonian. All these finds appear problematic and controversial, partly due to incomplete preservation and challenging interpretation of many structures. We provide details of one of
Haug C, Haug JT.
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Homologs of wingless and decapentaplegic display a complex and dynamic expression profile during appendage development in the millipede Glomeris marginata (Myriapoda: Diplopoda). [PDF]
Front Zool, 2004 BACKGROUND: The Drosophila genes wingless (wg) and decapentaplegic (dpp) comprise the top level of a hierarchical gene cascade involved in proximal-distal (PD) patterning of the legs.
Prpic NM.
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Exceptionally preserved crustaceans from western Canada reveal a cryptic Cambrian radiation. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2012 Harvey TH, Vélez MI, Butterfield NJ.
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