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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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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One proboscis, two tasks: adaptations to blood-feeding and nectar-extracting in long-proboscid horse flies (Tabanidae, Philoliche). [PDF]
Arthropod Struct Dev, 2014 Female Pangoniinae in the tabanid fly genus Philoliche can display remarkably elongated proboscis lengths, which are adapted for both blood- and nectar-feeding.
Karolyi F +4 more
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The mouthparts of the adult dragonfly Anax imperator (Insecta: Odonata), functional morphology and feeding kinematics [PDF]
, 2022 Insects evolved differently specialized mouthparts. We study the mouthparts of adult Anax imperator, one of the largest odonates found in Central Europe. Like all adult dragonflies, A. imperator possesses carnivorous-type of biting-chewing mouthparts. To
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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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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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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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Morphological adaptations of the mouthparts to the ectoparasitic lifestyle of the biting midge Forcipomyia paludis (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae), specialized in Odonata [PDF]
, 2022 Damselflies and dragonflies are well-known hosts of the West Palaearctic biting midge Forcipomyia paludis. Females of this ectoparasitic dipteran mainly cling to the host’s wings, sucking hemolymph from the wing veins.
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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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Morphological evolution and phylogeny of millipedes (Diplopoda) [PDF]
, 2023 Millipedes (Diplopoda) count more than 12,000 described species and play, probably since more than 400 million years, a fundamental role as detritivores in terrestrial ecosystems.
Moritz, Leif
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