... of Biologists Ltd 2021 Summary: In this Review, we summarize recent findings about the mechanisms involved in gut colonization and the provisioning of beneficial effects in gut microbiota–insect symbiosis. Arthropod Digestive tract Fruit fly Honey bee Symbiosis Termite...

... in response to and independent of heat stress. HSF-1 Heat stress Arthropod RNAi As the climate warms and organisms are pushed to their thermal limits, understanding the mechanistic basis underlying thermal tolerance is of increasing interest. Thermal stress elicits a near-universal cellular...

....   66 , 2643 - 2650 . 10.1007/s00018-009-0036-0 Fabritious , H. , Nikolov , S. , Petrov , M. , Friák , M. , Lymperakis , L. , Sachs , C. , Raabe , D. and Neugebauer , J. ( 2011 ). Robustness and optimal use of design principles of arthropod exoskeletons...

.... Arthropod Polarization Vision Both vertebrates and invertebrates show sensitivity for the orientation of the electric vector (e-vector) of light (reviewed in Horváth and Varjú, 2004 ; Marshall and Cronin, 2011 ; Labhart, 2016 ). Polarization vision is a multi-purpose ability that has been shown...

... may limit body size, especially if the integument also functions in support or locomotion. Pycnogonids, or sea spiders, are marine arthropods that lack gills and rely on cutaneous respiration but still grow to large sizes. Their cuticle contains pores, which may play a role in gas exchange. Here, we...

.../user-licence-1-1/ Highlighted Article: Selenopid spiders can attack prey throughout their entire peripheral range, showing a novel hunting behavior with high maneuverability that is generated with effectively controlled reconfigurations of long, laterigrade legs. Arthropod Legged...

... with a slightly shorter wavelength pigment in the production of red. Finally, we present the first evidence for the presence of melanosomes in arthropods, using both scanning and transmission electron microscopy, overturning the assumption that melanosomes are a synapomorphy of vertebrates. Our research shows...

...Verner P. Bingman; Jacob M. Graving; Eileen A. Hebets; Daniel D. Wiegmann ABSTRACT Amblypygids, or whip spiders, are nocturnal, predatory arthropods that display a robust ability to navigate to their home refuge. Prior field observations and displacement studies in amblypygids demonstrated...

... to the arthropod median ocelli, whereas the compound eyes probably evolved in the arthropod lineage. To gain insights into the ancestral function and evolution of the visual system in panarthropods, we investigated phototactic behaviour, opsin gene expression and the spectral sensitivity of the eyes in two...

... of Biologists Ltd 2014 Formica polyctena Arthropod Ground reaction force Insect biomechanics Ant locomotion Grounded running Among insects, extremely fast and agile species exist that can easily adapt their locomotor performance to a variety of substrates and inclines ( Graham and Cruse...

...Tom Weihmann; Michael Günther; Reinhard Blickhan SUMMARY Unlike most other arthropods, spiders have no extensor muscles in major leg joints. Therefore, hydraulic pressure generated in the prosoma provides leg extension. For decades, this mechanism was held responsible for the generation...

...T. C. Hawes; J. S. Bale SUMMARY Low-temperature acclimation and acclimatization produce phenotypic changes in arthropods at multiple levels of biological organization from the molecular to the behavioural. The role and function of plasticity – where a constitutive, reversible change occurs...

...@niaid.nih.gov ) 13 4 2006 © The Company of Biologists Limited 2006 2006 mosquito salivary gland endonuclease Culex quinquefasciatus arthropod Nucleases, including ribonucleases and deoxyribonucleases, are an evolutionarily old group of enzymes present in both prokaryotes...

... in the periphery and in the central nervous system of cockroaches and stress the importance of multi-level approaches to the study of locomotion. * Author for correspondence (e-mail: alr17@cwru.edu ) 8 9 2003 © The Company of Biologists Limited 2003 2003 senescence walking arthropod...

... storage (resilience) in the absence of internal fluid pressure was 70-90% for joints with well-developed transarticular sclerites, and the magnitude of torque was similar to those produced by different joint extension mechanisms in other arthropods. Increased internal fluid pressure acted synergistically...

... and, indeed, it is the first to be cloned from any arthropod. Two gene sequences with significant homology to eukaryotic α-carbonic anhydrases were previously annotated in the Drosophila melanogaster sequence data base. These sequences were used in our cloning strategy. Our subsequent analyses...

..., MA 01730, USA (e-mail: aahn@oeb.harvard.edu ) 16 11 2001 © The Company of Biologists Limited 2002 2002 muscle electromyography work loop neural control locomotion biomechanics insect arthropod Blaberus discoidalis cockroach. By measuring muscle length changes...

... address: Department of Biology, Pacific University, Forest Grove, OR 97116, USA (e-mail: martinmm@pacificu.edu ) 17 5 2001 © The Company of Biologists Limited 2001 2001 hydrodynamics locomotion crustacean arthropod shore crab Grapsus tenuicrustatus. Studies of legged...

...-mail: R.J.Wootton@exeter.ac.uk 16 08 1999 16 11 1999 © 1999 by Company of Biologists 1999 annelid arthropod cephalopod pteropod appendage limb wing walking swimming flight mechanics locomotion If an animal is to move relative to its surroundings, it must exert a net...

... during rapid running by the cockroach Blaberus discoidalis , a sprawled-postured arthropod. Executing a turn successfully involves at least two requirements. The animal’s mean heading (the direction of the mean velocity vector of the center of mass) must be deflected, and the animal’s body must rotate...