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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Recircumscription of the Nepenthes alata group (Caryophyllales: Nepenthaceae) in the Philippines : with four new species [PDF]
, 2013 An overview of Nepenthes in the Philippines is presented. Four new species, Nepenthes extincta sp. nov., N. kitanglad sp. nov., N. kurata sp. nov. and N. leyte sp. nov.
Cheek, Martin, Jebb, Matthew
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Flappy Hummingbird: An Open Source Dynamic Simulation of Flapping Wing Robots and Animals [PDF]
2019 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2019 Insects and hummingbirds exhibit extraordinary flight capabilities and can simultaneously master seemingly conflicting goals: stable hovering and aggressive maneuvering, unmatched by small scale man-made vehicles. Flapping Wing Micro Air Vehicles (FWMAVs) hold great promise for closing this performance gap.
Fan Fei 0002 +4 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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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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Animal Communication: Keep Your Wings Off My Food! [PDF]
Current Biology, 2014 When foraging, male big brown bats produce ultrasonic social calls. The calls repel rival bats from the caller and its prey, and increase the caller's foraging success during their high-speed aerial excursions.
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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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Exaggerated trait allometry, compensation and trade-offs in the New Zealand giraffe weevil (Lasiorhynchus barbicornis). [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 Sexual selection has driven the evolution of exaggerated traits among diverse animal taxa. The production of exaggerated traits can come at a cost to other traits through trade-offs when resources allocated to trait development are limited. Alternatively
Christina J Painting, Gregory I Holwell
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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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Supporting Survivor‐Centered Care Through Digital Health Integration
Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Survivors of childhood cancer face barriers to receiving guideline‐based, long‐term follow‐up care. Two digital tools, Passport for Care (PFC) and Cancer SurvivorLink (SurvivorLink), address complementary gaps by enabling tailored survivorship care plan (SCP) generation, updating, storage, and sharing.
Jordan G. Marchak +15 more
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