... guidelines for the care and use of animals. We quantified physiological and molecular responses to increased temperature variation using the dung beetle Phanaeus vindex Macleay 1819 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeinae), a diurnal species that occurs in North America primarily east of the Continental Divide...

... fluctuations, which may affect how some organisms fare under a warming climate. Acclimation Body size Coleoptera Development Dung beetle Metabolism Ontogeny Temperature fluctuation Thermal plasticity allows organisms to adjust their physiology to suit the current conditions and is thought...

...Konstantin Nadein; Oliver Betz ABSTRACT The present study analyses the anatomy, mechanics and functional morphology of the jumping apparatus, the performance and the kinematics of the natural jump of flea beetles (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae: Alticini). The kinematic parameters...

... of largest to smallest species mean) of two families of Coleoptera (Tenebrionidae and Scarabaeidae). We exposed adult beetles to progressively lower oxygen levels and measured their ability to maintain CO 2 release rates. Absolute metabolic rates increased hypometrically with beetle body mass ( M ) at both...

... screening . J. Chem. Ecol. 35 , 1063 - 1076 . Blight M. M. , Pickett J. A. , Wadhams L. J. , Woodcock C. M. ( 1995 ). Antennal perception of oilseed rape, Brassica napus (Brassicaceae), volatiles by the cabbage seed weevil Ceutorhynchus assimilis (Coleoptera, Curculionidae...

...T. Eimüller; P. Guttmann; S. N. Gorb SUMMARY For the first time, the terminal elements (spatulae) of setal (hairy)attachment devices of the beetle Gastrophysa viridula (Coleoptera,Chrysomelidae) and the fly Lucilia caesar (Diptera, Calliphoridae)were studied using transmission X-ray microscopy...

... (abducts) and, in certain insect orders, unfolds. The reverse adduction occurs on closing into the rest state(reviewed by Brodsky, 1994 ). Beetles have evolved complicated kinematics of wing unfolding( Schneider, 1978 ; Haas and Beutel, 2001 ). biomechanics coadapted structure Coleoptera...

...Melissa J. Merrick; Rosemary J. Smith SUMMARY This study compares the thermoregulatory ability of three species of burying beetle (Coleoptera: Silphidae: Nicrophorus hybridus, Nicrophorus guttula and Nicrophorus investigator ) that vary significantly in body size. It also explores possible...

...Zhendong Dai; Stanislav N. Gorb; Uli Schwarz SUMMARY This paper studies slide-resisting forces generated by claws in the free-walking beetle Pachnoda marginata (Coleoptera, Scarabaeoidea)with emphasis on the relationship between the dimension of the claw tip and the substrate texture. To evaluate...

... of Biologists 2000 bombardier beetle Metrius contractus evolution chemical defence benzoquinone hydrocarbon Coleoptera Carabidae Bombardier beetles comprise two evolutionary branches within the beetle family Carabidae ( Fig. 1 ). One branch, the brachinoid branch, includes the familiar...

... loss. The water loss over the pronotal spiracles amounts to about 70 %, and is thus the dominant component of transpiratory water loss in these beetles. 30 11 1990 © 1991 by Company of Biologists 1991 Coleóptera desert water balance cuticular permeability Phrynocolus petrosus...

....52.4.30155939 Heinrich , B. & Mcclain , E. ( 1986 ). Laziness and hypothermia as a foraging strategy in flower scarabs (Coleóptera: Scarabaeidae) . Physiol. Zool . 59 , 273 – 282 . 10.1086/physzool.59.2.30156041 Josephson , R. K. ( 1981 ). Temperature and mechanical...

... to avoid predators depend on flight and rapid walking, which in turn depend on their having a high internal temperature. 10 10 1986 © 1987 by Company of Biologists 1987 rain beetle Pleocoma Scarabaeidae Coleóptera thermoregulation energetic Endogenously elevated body...