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Bacteriophage WO in Wolbachia infecting terrestrial isopods
Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, 2005Wolbachia are maternally inherited intracellular alpha-proteobacteria that infect a wide range of arthropods. They are associated with a number of different reproductive phenotypes in arthropods and nematodes. In isopod crustacean, Wolbachia are responsible for feminization of genetic males in many species, and for cytoplasmic incompatibility in two ...
Christine Braquart-Varnier +2 more
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Physiology of terrestrial isopods
Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A: Physiology, 1993Abstract 1. 1. This article reviews the physiology of oniscidean isopods, a group of terrestrial crustaceans known commonly as woodlice or sowbugs. 2. 2. The oniscideans are represented by several hundred species in 34 families and occupy habitats ranging from sea beach to woodland, grassland and desert. 3. 3.
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The terrestrial isopods (Crustacea) of Aldabra
Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 1985Among a collection of terrestrial isopods from Aldabra were 13 species, six of which are new: Littorophiloscia aldabrana, Philoscina insularis, Trichorhina triocellata, Nagurus kensleyi, Pseudodiploexochus cuspidatus and Venezillo pseudoparvus. Alloniscus pigmentatus Budde-Lund and Tura angusta Budde-Lund are re-described and figured.
FERRARA Franco, TAITI Stefano
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Granivory in terrestrial isopods
Ecological Entomology, 2008Abstract Granivory (seed feeding) evolved in many animal groups. Field observations hint at the existence of granivory in terrestrial isopods (Crustacea: Isopoda: Oniscidea), for which it was previously unknown. In this paper granivory in terrestrial isopods is addressed for the first time, focusing on (i) seed ...
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Iridoviruses Infecting Terrestrial Isopods and Nematodes
1985Iridoviruses of terrestrial isopods (IIV) were first described in detail in 1980 (Federici 1980; Cole and Morris 1980) although the distinct purple to blue iridescent coloration produced in infected individuals had been noticed by many individuals long before.
R T, Hess, G O, Poinar
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Consumer strategies of terrestrial gastropods and isopods
Oecologia, 1978Morphological, physiological and ecological evidence is used to show that terrestrial gastropods and isopods, although both can be considered as "primary consumers", deal quite differently with the vegetabilic matter they use as food. Gastropods are both efficient digesters and assimilators whereas isopods are efficient digesters but usually ...
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Mechanical properties of terrestrial isopods
Bioinspired, Biomimetic and Nanobiomaterials, 2013Terrestrial isopods have developed a lightweight exoskeleton to the demands of different predation possibilities, for example fast escaping behavior (runner) to rolling into a ball to withstand external forces. However, detailed mechanical investigations onto them are not available yet.
Jan Nils Grossmann, Helmut Schmitz
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Isopods and Their Terrestrial Environment
1987Publisher Summary The chapter reveals that the terrestrial adaptations of the oniscoid isopods range from structural and behavioral to ecological and physiological traits. Oniscoid isopods have emerged on land through the littoral zone, and the whole series of isopod species as if they were amidst the process of emerging from the seashore onto land ...
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The Effects of Crowding on Terrestrial Isopods
Ecology, 1984Caged populations of two species of oniscoid isopod, Armadillidium nasatum and A. vulgare, were maintained at varying levels of density, food availability, species composition, and population size structure. Growth rate, of mortality, and the size at first reproduction of the young animals were measured in each cage.
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Intestinal Microbiota of Terrestrial Isopods
2005Isopods are a cosmopolitan group of crustaceans, which inhabit marine environments ranging from deep-sea to intertidal areas, surface and underground freshwaters and terrestrial environments fromhigh humidity to dry habitats, including deserts. More than one third of the described isopodan species (approximately 9000) belong to the terrestrial ...
Rok Kostanjšek +5 more
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