2014). Arthropods are one of the most important components in any agroecosystem, with populations of detritivorous, parasitoid, phytophagous, and predatory species (Médiène et al., 2011). Arthropod ...

To highlight the importance of these protein kinase families in the response to arthropod herbivores, a compilation of previous knowledge on their members is offered. When available, this information ...

Mites are arthropods, not insects, and are close cousins with spiders and ticks. Most types of mites feed on other insects or on dead plant and animal material. (Dust mites, for example ...

Two new species of loricariid catfishes, Parotocinclus bidentatus and P. muriaensis, are described from the rio Paraíba do Sul basin. They possess accessory unicuspid teeth located internally to the ...

Michael Skvarla, assistant research professor of arthropod identification at Penn State University, said on May 28 that he has been receiving reports over the past week about periodical Brood XIV ...

“The animal in the photo does appear to be a horsehair worm,” came the response a few days later from Michael Skvarla, Ph.D., assistant research professor of arthropod identification in the ...

"Arthropods and early vertebrates independently evolved similar sensory solutions to the same biological and ecological problem." Senior study author Neil Shubin, also from the University of ...

That was when life really took off, and the ocean started to thrive. In this environment lived the radiodonts, a group of animals that shared a common ancestor with arthropods, but has since gone ...

Yara Haridy, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Chicago, likes to stun people by telling them that our skeletons evolved from a jawless fish. "Much of what we have today has been ...

DANIEL: The reason - Anatolepis was no vertebrate. It was an invertebrate, a kind of arthropod. HARIDY: Think of it like an ancestor of spiders and scorpions. DANIEL: This discovery pushed the ...