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Male Eupalaestrus weijenberghi

September 26, 2019

Kinematics of male tarantula locomotion

This work described and analyzed gait patterns and parameters of Eupalaestrus weijenberghi to investigate the mechanics of their locomotion and the mechanisms by which they conserve energy while traversing different inclinations and surfaces.

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October 7, 2019

Validation of COI metabarcoding primers for terrestrial arthropods

Vasco Elbrecht, Thomas W.A. Braukmann, Natalia V. Ivanova, Sean W.J. Prosser, Mehrdad Hajibabaei, Michael Wright, Evgeny V. Zakharov, Paul D.N. Hebert, Dirk Steinke

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7745 PubMed 31608170

October 25, 2019

Combined effect of the entomopathogenic fungus Metarhizium robertsii and avermectins on the survival and immune response of Aedes aegypti larvae

Yuriy A. Noskov, Olga V. Polenogova, Olga N. Yaroslavtseva, Olga E. Belevich, Yuriy A. Yurchenko, Ekaterina A. Chertkova, Natalya A. Kryukova, Vadim Yu Kryukov, Viktor V. Glupov

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7931 PubMed 31667017

October 14, 2019

Environmental filtering of body size and darker coloration in pollinator communities indicate thermal restrictions on bees, but not flies, at high elevations

Lindsie M. McCabe, Neil S. Cobb, Bradley J. Butterfield

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7867 PubMed 31632853

October 4, 2019

The cuticle inward barrier in Drosophila melanogaster is shaped by mitochondrial and nuclear genotypes and a sex-specific effect of diet

Wei Dong, Ralph Dobler, Damian K. Dowling, Bernard Moussian

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7802 PubMed 31592352

October 23, 2019

Antibacterial immune functions of subadults and adults in a semelparous spider

Zoltán Rádai, Péter Kiss, Dávid Nagy, Zoltán Barta