Ontogeny of aerial righting and wing flapping in juvenile birds [PDF]
, 2014 Mechanisms of aerial righting in juvenile Chukar Partridge (Alectoris chukar) were studied from hatching through 14 days post hatching (dph). Asymmetric movements of the wings were used from 1 to 8 dph to effect progressively more successful righting ...
Cam, Sharlene +4 more
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Du banquet grec à l’imaginaire funéraire étrusque : les hybrides oculaires de la céramique attique
Gaia, 2022 In the iconographic corpus of female-animal hybridity in the archaic Mediterranean, one particular file catches the eye, that of the rare ocular hybridities in Attic pottery from the second half of the 6th century BC. These images, illustrating a process
Christian Mazet
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The role of visual and mechanosensory cues in structuring forward flight in Drosophila melanogaster [PDF]
, 2007 It has long been known that many flying insects use visual cues to orient with respect to the wind and to control their groundspeed in the face of varying wind conditions.
Budick, Seth A. +2 more
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Giant ants and their shape: revealing relationships in the genus Titanomyrma with geometric morphometrics [PDF]
PeerJ, 2018 Shape is a natural phenomenon inherent to many different lifeforms. A modern technique to analyse shape is geometric morphometrics (GM), which offers a whole range of methods concerning the pure shape of an object.
Julian Katzke +4 more
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Herbivory increases diversification across insect clades. [PDF]
, 2015 Insects contain more than half of all living species, but the causes of their remarkable diversity remain poorly understood. Many authors have suggested that herbivory has accelerated diversification in many insect clades. However, others have questioned
Lapoint, Richard +2 more
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Journal of Basic and Applied Zoology, 2019 Background Insect wings are an excessively diverse structures, which have fascinated scientist for centuries. Coleoptera is the largest order in the insect group and the most successful animal on earth (Nature Communications 9(205):1–11, 2018).
Nasra M.H. Zohry, Ahmed Mohamed El-Sayed
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Localized JNK signaling regulates organ size during development. [PDF]
, 2016 A fundamental question of biology is what determines organ size. Despite demonstrations that factors within organs determine their sizes, intrinsic size control mechanisms remain elusive.
Beachy, Philip A +5 more
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Building a Bird: Musculoskeletal Modeling and Simulation of Wing-Assisted Incline Running during Avian Ontogeny [PDF]
, 2018 Flapping flight is the most power-demanding mode of locomotion, associated with a suite of anatomical specializations in extant adult birds. In contrast, many developing birds use their forelimbs to negotiate environments long before acquiring “flight ...
Ashley M. Heers +4 more
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Butterfly Eyespots: Their Potential Influence on Aesthetic Preferences and Conservation Attitudes. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 Research has shown that the mere presence of stimuli that resemble eyes is sufficient to attract attention, elicit aesthetic responses, and can even enhance prosocial behavior.
Zoi Manesi +2 more
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Technical Development of a New Semispherical Radiofrequency Bipolar Device (RONJA): Ex Vivo and In Vivo Studies [PDF]
, 2014 The aim of this study is to inform about the development of a new semispherical surgical instrument for the bipolar multielectrode radiofrequency liver ablation.
Crha, M +14 more
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