The remoulding of dietary effects on the fecundity / longevity trade-off in a social insect. [PDF]
BMC Genomics, 2023 Rau V, Flatt T, Korb J.
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3D‐Printing Aided Rapid Prototyping of Pretensioned Tensegrity Structures for Robotic Applications
Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.Printing, injection molding, and assembly (PMA) is a method for rapid prototyping mesoscale, topologically complex, and tensioned tensegrity structures. In combination with PMA method, two mold design strategies: modular mold and compact channel layout, enable efficiency and scalability for tensegrity fabrication.
Yi Sun +3 more
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Self-organization of plasticity and specialization in a primitively social insect. [PDF]
Cell Syst, 2022 Patalano S +10 more
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From Lab to Landscape: Environmental Biohybrid Robotics for Ecological Futures
Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.This Perspective explores environmental biohybrid robotics, integrating living tissues, microorganisms, and insects for operation in real‐world ecosystems. It traces the leap from laboratory experiments to forests, wetlands, and urban environments and discusses key challenges, development pathways, and opportunities for ecological monitoring and ...
Miriam Filippi
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Is the concept of mammalian epigenetic clocks universal and applicable to invertebrates?
Frontiers in GeneticsCertain aspects of animal ageing can be quantified using molecular clocks or machine learning algorithms that are trained on specific omics data, with epigenetic clocks based on DNA methylation (DNAm) garnering the most attention.
Ryszard Maleszka
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Fertility costs of cryptic viral infections in a model social insect. [PDF]
Sci Rep, 2022 Chapman A +7 more
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Consensus Formation and Change are Enhanced by Neutrality
Advanced Science, EarlyView.Neutral agents are shown to enhance both the formation and overturning of consensus in collective decision‐making. A general mathematical model and experiments with locusts and humans reveal that neutrality enables robust consensus via simple interactions and accelerates consensus change by reducing effective population size.
Andrei Sontag +3 more
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Ecology and EvolutionCamponotus japonicus (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) is an omnivorous social insect which builds sizable colonies in sparse woodlands or cropland and spreads across multiple climatic zones in the Chinese mainland.
Ruoqing Ma +4 more
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Intergenerational genotypic interactions drive collective behavioural cycles in a social insect. [PDF]
Proc Biol Sci, 2022 Jud SL, Knebel D, Ulrich Y.
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The Role of Ionic Liquids at the Biological Interfaces in Bioelectronics
Advanced Science, EarlyView.Ionic liquids (ILs) are highlighted as key artificial ionic materials that bridge biological ion‐based signaling and electronic devices. By understanding their composition, structure, function relationships, and mechanisms, ILs can advance from high performance electrolyte to core materials enabling integrated, multifunctional bioelectronics for ...
Yeong‐sinn Ye +5 more
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