Internal state effects on behavioral shifts in freely behaving praying mantises (Tenodera sinensis) [PDF]
PLoS Computational Biology, 2021 How we interact with our environment largely depends on both the external cues presented by our surroundings and the internal state from within. Internal states are the ever-changing physiological conditions that communicate the immediate survival needs ...
Shanel C Pickard +2 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
Sugiura S.
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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
Shi Yan, Lin-Yu Li, Muhammad Yasir Ali
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A computational model of stereoscopic prey capture in praying mantises. [PDF]
PLoS Comput Biol, 2022 We present a simple model which can account for the stereoscopic sensitivity of praying mantis predatory strikes. The model consists of a single "disparity sensor": a binocular neuron sensitive to stereoscopic disparity and thus to distance from the ...
O'Keeffe J +4 more
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Crypsis by background matching and disruptive coloration as drivers of substrate occupation in sympatric Amazonian bark praying mantises [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2023 Background matching and disruptive coloration are common camouflage strategies in nature, but few studies have accurately measured their protective value in living organisms.
João Vitor De Alcantara Viana +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 ...
Govorov V +3 more
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Allometry of Ingestion Among Habitat Mimicking Praying Mantises. [PDF]
Ecol EvolIngestion 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.
Oufiero C, Wood M, McMillan E.
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Patterns of morphological evolution in the raptorial appendages of praying mantises [PDF]
Insect ScienceAbstractMantodea (praying mantises) is a group of exclusively predatory insects, which, together with nonraptorial blattodeans (cockroaches and termites) and groups exclusively found in the fossil record, form the group Dictyoptera. A central characteristic of Mantodea is the specialization of their first pair of legs as raptorial grasping appendages ...
Alejandro Izquierdo-López +2 more
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Praying mantises possess multiple spectral photoreceptor classes [PDF]
Journal of Comparative Physiology A: Neuroethology, Sensory, Neural, and Behavioral PhysiologyPraying mantises often display elaborate camouflage, disappearing into the shapes, textures, and colors around them. But they have largely been thought to be monochromats, unable to perceive the colors they mimic. To examine this, we tested the compound eye spectral sensitivity of three species of praying mantises, each representing unique mimicry ...
Frank Tamara M
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Contrast thresholds reveal different visual masking functions in humans and praying mantises. [PDF]
Biol Open, 2018 Recently, we showed a novel property of the Hassenstein–Reichardt detector, namely that insect motion detection can be masked by ‘undetectable’ noise, i.e.
Tarawneh G +9 more
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