Novel Mitochondrial Gene Rearrangement and Intergenic Regions Exist in the Mitochondrial Genomes from Four Newly Established Families of Praying Mantises (Insecta: Mantodea) [PDF]
Insects, 2022 Long non-coding regions (NCRs) and gene rearrangements are commonly seen in mitochondrial genomes of Mantodea and are primarily focused on three regions: CR-I-Q-M-ND2, COX2-K-D-ATP8, and ND3-A-R-N-S-E-F-ND5.
Kenneth B Storey +2 more
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First assessment of the biodiversity of praying mantises (Insecta: Mantodea) in Cameroon with DNA barcoding [PDF]
PLoS ONEPraying mantises are the apex insect predators in many ecosystems, nevertheless they receive relatively less recognition in biodiversity reviews. We report a first survey of diversity of praying mantises in Cameroon, which is situated in the Congo Basin ...
Barbora Černá Bolfíková +1 more
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Beetle bombing always deters praying mantises [PDF]
PeerJ, 2021 Some animals have evolved chemical weapons to deter predators. Bombardier beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Brachininae: Brachinini) can eject toxic chemicals at temperatures of 100 °C from the tips of their abdomens, ‘bombing’ the attackers. Although some
Shinji Sugiura
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Allometry of Ingestion Among Habitat Mimicking Praying Mantises [PDF]
Ecology and EvolutionIngestion is the process of consuming a resource and is a component of an organism's handling time, which can limit the acquisition of additional resources and decrease predation rate.
Christopher Oufiero +2 more
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Complete mitochondrial genomes of four species of praying mantises (Dictyoptera, Mantidae) with ribosomal second structure, evolutionary and phylogenetic analyses [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2021 Praying mantises are distributed all over the world. Though some Mantodea mitogenomes have been reported, an evolutionary genomic and phylogenetic analysis study lacks the latest taxonomic system. In the present study, four new mitogenomes were sequenced
Yan Shi +6 more
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Evolutionary genomics of camouflage innovation in the orchid mantis [PDF]
Nature Communications, 2023 The orchid mantises achieve camouflage with morphological modifications in body color and pattern, providing an interesting model for understanding phenotypic innovation. However, a reference genome is lacking for the order Mantodea.
Guangping Huang +4 more
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Neuropeptides from a praying mantis: what the loss of pyrokinins and tryptopyrokinins suggests about the endocrine functions of these peptides [PDF]
PeerJBackground Neuropeptides play important roles in insects, but in many cases their functions remain obscure. Comparative neuropeptidome analyses may provide clues to what these functions might be.
Jan A. Veenstra
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Comparative Morphology of the Extrinsic and Intrinsic Leg Musculature in Dictyoptera (Insecta: Blattodea, Mantodea). [PDF]
J MorpholWe analyzed the morphology of all pairs of legs in Mantodea and its closest sister‐group—the Blattodea—using high‐resolution microcomputed tomography and dissection. Thereby, we updated the blattodean morphology and revealed a shared musculature set‐up in all pairs of legs among later‐branching mantodeans, and several differences in comparison to ...
Bäumler F, Gorb SN, Büsse S.
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Evolution of Peripheral Visual System in the Apoidea: A Role for Food Item Mobility? [PDF]
Ecol EvolSince larger compound eyes and ocelli altogether improve vision, one may expect that insects specialised in chasing very mobile resources possess such morphological optimisation. By analysing 77 species of bees and wasps, we have found that wasps had larger eyes, but not larger ocelli, than bees.
Trisoglio CF +4 more
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Patterns of morphological evolution in the raptorial appendages of praying mantises. [PDF]
Insect SciThis study traces changes in the morphology of the forelegs across fossil and extant dictyopterans to understand their evolution from cursorial limbs to the raptorial morphologies of mantodeans. Two new mantodean specimens preserved in amber are described herein.
Izquierdo-López A +5 more
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