Sentences with phrase «of other arthropods»

The find suggests that the ancestors of chelicerates — spiders, scorpions and their kin — branched off from the family tree of other arthropods — including insects, crustaceans and millipedes — more than half a billion years ago.

Not exact matches

The recorded cases of resistance in insects, mites and other arthropods, which include resistance to multiple pesticides per species, more than doubled from 5,141 in 1990 to 11,254 in 2013.

Forms of Wolbachia are found naturally in various ants, butterflies and many other arthropods.

Animals have incredible variation in their body shapes and ways of life, including the plant - like, immobile marine sponges that lack heads, eyes, limbs and complex organs, parasitic worms that live inside other organisms (e.g. nematodes, platyhelminths), and phyla with eyes, skeletons, limbs and complex organs that dominate the land in terms of species numbers (arthropods) and body size (chordates).

Even within a phylum so full of mean little creatures, the yellow - colored Ormia ochracea fly is distinguished among other arthropods for its cruelty — at least to crickets.

«We expect that a closer look at ant - other arthropod relationships will yield numerous examples similar to ours and provide a better understanding of the complexities of microhabitat choice and its ecological ramifications.»

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.»

Crustaceans belong to a larger group of animals, called the arthropods, which also includes insects, spiders and others.

«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.

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.

But new research in today's issue of Science indicates that mites and other soil - dwelling arthropods, called springtails, ferry sperm from male to female mosses.

The top ocean predator of the time, its prey could have included early sharks, large nautiluslike mollusks, arthropods and other placoderms, Westneat says.

The relatively few animals that manage the lifestyle are indeed remarkable: some insects and other arthropods, a few mollusks, some fishes, birds on occasion and, of course, three kinds of bats.

Whereas other wasps use pieces of arthropods to disguise their nest, the bone - house wasp (Deuteragenia ossarium) is the first to use whole ants, the researchers report this month in PLOS ONE.

Other animals from these ancient marine sediments include a number of exciting new discoveries: arthropods without skeletons, many sponges, a few shelled brachiopods and a single trilobite species.

With the help of citizen scientists, researchers from North Carolina State University and the University of Colorado Boulder analyzed arthropod DNA found in 732 dust samples collected from interior door frames throughout the U.S. Amid their data on many other species, the scientists found that the eastern U.S. and the West Coast are dust - mite utopias, whereas much of the western interior may be a comparative desert.

«Before now we've had only sparse hints at what the first arthropods with mandibles could have looked like, and no idea of what could have been the other key characteristics that triggered the unrivaled diversification of that group.»

«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.

The purpose of the cage was to let us measure how much arthropods * alone were capable of eating in this Manhattan park, without interference from mice, rats, sparrows, and whatever other urban critters might shuffle by with the munchies.

The evolution of vision in vertebrates is an important theme in the history of animal life, however, aside from the calcified lenses of fossilised arthropods, other parts of the visual system are not usually preserved in the fossil record because the soft tissue of the eye and brain decays rapidly days after death.

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.

Prashant Sharma, professor of integrative biology at the University of Wisconsin — Madison, studies how scorpions, spiders and other arachnids and arthropods have evolved.

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.

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.

Usually when we want to get rid of an insect or other arthropod we spray it with something nasty.

The study relies on the longest - standing, most comprehensive data set on Arctic arthropods in the world today: a catalogue of almost 600,000 flies, wasps, spiders, and other creepy - crawlies collected at the Zackenberg field station on the northeast coast of Greenland from 1996 - 2014.

Evidence for a clade of nematodes, arthropods and other moulting animals.