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Frontiers in Microbiology, 2020 In the industry of fermented food and beverages, yeast cultures are often selected and standardized in order to ensure a better control of fermentation and a more stable product over time.
Monica Di Paola +2 more
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Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2014 For the past decade, the study of personality has become a topic on the frontier of behavioral ecology. However, most studies have focused on exploring inter-individual behavioral variation in solitary animals, and few account for the role that social ...
Sarah E Bengston, Jennifer M Jandt
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Advances in Sustainable and Wearable Textile Based Soft Robotics
Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.This Review examines advances in wearable textile‐based soft robotics, focusing on sustainable materials, integrated sensing, and scalable actuation. It discusses manufacturing and system integration across healthcare, assistive robotics, prosthetics, and human–machine interfaces, and highlights key challenges in circular design, including life‐cycle ...
Zahir Abbas +6 more
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Nutritional regulation influencing colony dynamics and task allocations in social insect colonies
Journal of Biological Dynamics, 2021 In this paper, we use an adaptive modeling framework to model and study how nutritional status (measured by the protein to carbohydrate ratio) may regulate population dynamics and foraging task allocation of social insect colonies.
Feng Rao +4 more
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Social-insect fungus farming [PDF]
Current Biology, 2006 Which social insects rear their own food? Growing fungi for food has evolved twice in social insects: once in new-world ants about 50 million years ago; and once in old-world termites between 24 and 34 million years ago [1,2]. The termites domesticated a single fungal lineage — the extant basidiomycete genus Termitomyces — whereas the ants are ...
Aanen, D.K., Boomsma, J.J.
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, 1995 A short review shows that social insects have many parasites on larvae and adults but few on eggs. Social organisation simultaneously affects parasite transmission within and between colonies.
P. Schmid-Hempel
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Coordinated Architectural and Chemical Reinforcement in the Crushing Mandible of a Soldier Termite
Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.The crushing mandible of a soldier termite withstands substantial biting loads despite lacking mineral. Its cuticle is partitioned: convex teeth pair hardness and zinc enrichment with aligned chitin fibers for contact durability, while stiffer concave regions between teeth carry bending loads.
Andrew Tran Nguyen +16 more
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Chitin‐Derived Carbon‐Metal Functional Materials
Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.Functional carbon materials are synthesized from combination of biopolymer (chitin) and iron precursors. The resultant material exhibits superior surface area and adsorptive properties compared to carbon materials synthesized directly from pure chitin.
Herry Fang +7 more
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Emergence of intercolonial variation in termite shelter tube patterns and prediction of its underlying mechanism [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2015 Building behaviours occur in various organisms from bacteria to humans. Social insects build various structures such as large nests and underground galleries, achieved by self-organization.
Nobuaki Mizumoto +2 more
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Coactivating influences between neighbouring legs in walking insects [PDF]
, 1985 Cruse H. Coactivating influences between neighbouring legs in walking insects. The Journal of Experimental Biology.
Cruse, Holk
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