A kinematic model of stick‐insect walking [PDF]
Physiological Reports, 2019 Animal, and insect walking (locomotion) in particular, have attracted much attention from scientists over many years up to now. The investigations included behavioral, electrophysiological experiments, as well as modeling studies.
Tibor I. Tóth, Silvia Daun
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Structure-Activity Studies on the Hypertrehalosemic Hormone II of the Stick Insect Carausius morosus (Phasmatodea): Carbohydrate-Mobilization and Cardio-Stimulatory Activities [PDF]
Frontiers in Physiology, 2020 The corpora cardiaca of the Indian stick insect, Carausius morosus, synthesize two decapeptide neuropeptides of the adipokinetic hormone (AKH) family, both of which can increase the trehalose levels in the hemolymph when the stick insect is ligated ...
Ottilie K. H. Katali +2 more
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Dynamics of X chromosome hyper-expression and inactivation in male tissues during stick insect development. [PDF]
PLoS GeneticsDifferentiated sex chromosomes are frequently associated with major transcriptional changes: the evolution of dosage compensation (DC) to equalize gene expression between the sexes and the establishment of meiotic sex chromosome inactivation (MSCI).
Jelisaveta Djordjevic +11 more
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Dynamics of sex-biased gene expression during development in the stick insect Timema californicum. [PDF]
Heredity (Edinb), 2022 Sexually dimorphic phenotypes are thought to arise primarily from sex-biased gene expression during development. Major changes in developmental strategies, such as the shift from hemimetabolous to holometabolous development, are therefore expected to ...
Djordjevic J +4 more
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Parthenogenetic Females of the Stick Insect Clitarchus hookeri Maintain Sexual Traits [PDF]
Insects, 2019 The New Zealand stick insect Clitarchus hookeri has both sexual and parthenogenetic (all-female) populations. Sexual populations exhibit a scramble competition mating system with distinctive sex roles, where females are signalers and males are searchers,
Mari Nakano +3 more
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Phylogeographical evidence for historical long-distance dispersal in the flightless stick insect <i>Ramulus mikado</i>. [PDF]
Proc Biol Sci, 2023 Exploring how organisms overcome geographical barriers to dispersal is a fundamental question in biology. Passive long-distance dispersal events, although infrequent and unpredictable, have a considerable impact on species range expansions.
Suetsugu K +7 more
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The physical properties of the stick insect pad secretion are independent of body size [PDF]
J R Soc Interface, 2022 Many insects use adhesive organs to climb. The ability to cling to surfaces is advantageous but is increasingly challenged as animals grow, due to the associated reduction in surface-to-volume ratio.
Kaimaki D +3 more
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Calcium imaging of CPG-evoked activity in efferent neurons of the stick insect. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2018 The stick insect is a well-established experimental animal to study the neural basis of walking. Here, we introduce a preparation that allows combining calcium imaging in efferent neurons with electrophysiological recordings of motor neuron activity in ...
Jens Goldammer +3 more
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Gripping performance in the stick insect Sungaya inexpectata in dependence on the pretarsal architecture. [PDF]
J Comp Physiol A Neuroethol Sens Neural Behav Physiol, 2023 Insect attachment devices and capabilities have been subject to research efforts for decades, and even though during that time considerable progress has been made, numerous questions remain. Different types of attachment devices are known, alongside most
Winand J, Gorb SN, Büscher TH.
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Descriptions of two new stick insect species of Cnipsomorpha Hennemann, Conle, Zhang & Liu (Phasmatodea) from China based on integrative taxonomy [PDF]
ZooKeys, 2023 Accurate taxonomical identification is an extremely important basis for stick insect research, including evolutionary biology but also applied biology such as pest control.
Fangling Xu, Yingjie Jiang, Maofa Yang
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