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Checklist of the known Mantids (Insecta) of Colombia
Biota Colombiana, 2002 -
Julián Adolfo Salazar Escobar
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Chinese mantids gut toxic monarch caterpillars: avoidance of prey defence?
, 2013 Monarch caterpillars, Danaus plexippus (Linnaeus), feed on milkweed plants in the genus Asclepias and sequester cardenolides as an anti-predator defence. However, some predators are able to consume this otherwise unpalatable prey.
Rafter, Jamie L. +5 more
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Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.We developed methods to characterize soft contractile actuators using force–displacement measurements in the passive state and the total force in the active state and define the operational range of thermal, electrothermal, and pneumatic muscles. A graphical method enables the selection of an actuator based on the required mechanical force–displacement
Qiong Wang +5 more
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, 2021 Figure 1. Kohgiluyeh and Buyer Ahmad province in Iran map (left), and collection site habitat (right).Published as part of Mirzaee, Zohreh, Arbabi, Masoud & Sadeghi, Saber, 2021, First report of two parasitengone larvae on mantids Bolivaria brachyptera ...
Arbabi, Masoud +2 more
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Do arthropods respond to noxious stimuli purely by reflex?
Animal Sentience, 2020 Mikhalevich & Powell (2020) argue that it is wrong to dismiss the idea of sentience in invertebrates. Here, I expand on the evidence for crustaceans responding to noxious stimuli in ways that are not explained by mere reflexes, and that are consistent ...
Robert W. Elwood
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, 2014 1. Cryptic coloration may evolve in response to selective pressure imposed by predators, yet effective intraspecific communication may require some level of detectability. This creates a tension between the benefits of sexually selected visual traits and
Thomas E. White (3261276) +9 more
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On a summer collection of mantids (Insecta: Mantodea) from Lorestan province with nine new records [PDF]
Iranian Journal of Animal Biosystematics, 2019 In late summer 2016, the first author collected 34 specimens from nine species of Mantodea from Lorestan, chiefly Kuhdasht, Eastern part of the province.
Zohreh Mirzaee, Saber Sadeghi
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Journal of the New York Botanical Garden, 1935 (Uploaded by Plazi from the Biodiversity Heritage Library) No abstract provided.
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Evidence for adaptive explanations of semelparity in animals
Biological Reviews, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Semelparity, the reproductive strategy of reproducing once, is widespread but uncommon in animals. Classes of models to explain the evolution of semelparity are based either on age structure and mortality schedules – demographic models in which high post‐reproductive mortality risk favours high reproductive effort and semelparity results from ...
Diana O. Fisher +1 more
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Bio‐Inspired Carbon Spheres Enable Active Sites Multiscale‐Anchoring and Pre‐Reduction
Carbon Energy, EarlyView.Combining the wet‐spinning technique with a “bionic design” concept, a bio‐inspired carbon sphere support with internal finger‐shaped pores and external craquelure structures is designed and constructed, and the corresponding carbon sphere reactor is fabricated through the multiscale anchoring and the pre‐reduced promoting, and verified for application
Guangkai Hu +11 more
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