Sentences with phrase «other arthropods»

Research led by University of Arizona Regents» Professor Nick Strausfeld and London Natural History Museum's Greg Edgecombe has revealed 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.
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.
«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.
Forms of Wolbachia are found naturally in various ants, butterflies and many other arthropods.
«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 20 years, the biochemist at the University of Queensland, St. Lucia, in Australia has been hunting for new insecticides by surveying spider and other arthropod venoms.
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.
Sometimes considered helpful partners, Africa's oxpeckers (Buphagus) glean ticks and other arthropods from African grazing animals.
With insects and other arthropods like spiders and scorpions, they're around still.
The major architectural differences between insects and other arthropods involve variations in the number, type, and pattern of segments and body appendages.
They don't prey on humans, only other arthropods.
These same arachnids lack another gene, called Sp5, which normally leads to proper head segmentation in other arthropods, like fruit flies.
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.
Mosquitoes, fleas and ticks, among other arthropods, can carry infectious diseases such as West Nile, heartworm, Ehrlichia, Lyme and Anaplasma.
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.
«By narrowing down how many species exist within the largest group — the insects and other arthropods — we are now in a position to try to improve estimates for all species, including plants, fungi and vertebrates.
(The latter are viruses carried by ticks, mosquitoes or other arthropods.)
The practice is common in spiders and other arthropods, including praying mantises and crickets.
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.
If we have not already found them, we must surely be close to discovering the smallest insects and other arthropods,» says the lead author, John Huber from Natural Resources Canada.
This mosquito is considered among the most invasive animal species on earth and is of considerable medical importance as a vector of Dengue fever, Chikungunya, and a number of other arthropod - borne viruses.
Due to the abundance of Wolbachia among insects and other arthropods, CI may frequently co-occur with nuclear incompatibilities during evolutionary processes.
Cordyceps species live as parasites on insects and other arthropods.
Most electronic pest repellents produce high - pitched sounds — called ultrasounds — that purportedly drive away rodents, insects, spiders and other arthropods.
Wasp and other arthropods may bite, resulting in an allergic reaction on the skin.
Usually when we want to get rid of an insect or other arthropod we spray it with something nasty.
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