Sentences with phrase «as other arthropods»
«As adept filter feeders and scavengers, crustaceans may not have been subjected to the same pressures as other arthropods to develop a predatory weapon - like venom,» he says.
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«We're also looking at other possible sources, such as arthropods.»
For the first time we can analyze how the segments of these fossil arthropods line up with each other the same way as we do with living species — using their nervous systems.»
«The anterior sclerite has been lost in modern arthropods, as it most likely fused with other parts of the head during the evolutionary history of the group,» said Dr Javier Ortega - Hernández, a postdoctoral researcher from Cambridge's Department of Earth Sciences, who authored the study.
She says that it has been a recalcitrant question exactly how tardigrades are related to seven other phyla of molting animals known as ecdysozoans, a group that includes both arthropods and nematodes.
These markings resembled other tracks thought to be made by an early arthropod, Protichnites, as it dragged itself across an ancient beach.
Strausfeld and Wolff looked at both the neuroanatomy and chemical composition of mushroom bodies in numerous species belonging to two major groups of invertebrates: Ecdysozoa, which includes insects, crustaceans and other arthropods such as scorpions and horseshoe crabs; and Lophotrochozoa, which includes mollusks, flatworms and segmented worms.
Earthworms were up to three times more abundant, and there were twice as many spiders and other pest - eating arthropods.
«Our study suggests that a number of other Burgess Shale fossils such as Branchiocaris, Canadaspis and Odaraia form with Tokummia a group of crustacean - like arthropods that we can now place at the base of all mandibulates,» said Aria.
This measure allows for gapiness in the pattern of homology, so a Nasonia protein with a hit to a single non-arthropod genome would be defined as «Metazoan» even if it were absent from all arthropod genomes other than Nasonia.
Cordyceps species live as parasites on insects and other arthropods.
Arcade aficionados will remember Centipede and Millipede as a pair of track - ball - equipped shooters in which players had to eliminate encroaching arthropods through a field of mushrooms while avoiding spiders and other creepy crawlies.
Mosquitoes, fleas and ticks, among other arthropods, can carry infectious diseases such as West Nile, heartworm, Ehrlichia, Lyme and Anaplasma.
Earth Defense Force 2025 is the latest in the simple, exciting action game series, picking up seven years after the last game and doing the exact same thing as all the other ones, story-wise — giant insects arthropods (because spiders aren't insects) are attacking, and it's up to the brave men and women of the Earth Defense Force to protect the citizens and defeat the invaders.