Woodrow, Charlie Pulver, Christian Song, Hojun Montealegre-Z, Fernando
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Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Ensiferan orthopterans offer a key study system for acoustic communication and the process of insect hearing. Cyphoderris monstrosa (Hagloidea) belongs to a relict ensiferan family and is often used for evolutionary comparisons between bushcrickets (Tettigoniidae) and their ancestors. Understanding how this species processes sound is therefore vita...
Li, Ran Jiang, Lina Li, Yujian
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Mitochondrial DNA. Part B, Resources
The complete mitochondrial genome of Cyrtacanthacris tatarica was firstly sequenced and analyzed. The circular mitogenome was 15,679 bp long, showing a bias of AT rich on the majority strand (42.34% of A, 29.99% of T, 11.19% of G, and 16.18% of C). It consisted of the typical 37 genes (13 protein-coding genes, two ribosomal RNA genes, and 22 transf...
Li, Ran Jiao, Meng Li, Yujian Jiang, Lina
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Mitochondrial DNA. Part B, Resources
The complete mitochondrial genome (mitogenome) of Sinopodisma hengshanica (Orthoptera: Acrididae) was firstly determined and analyzed in the present study. Assembled mitogenome sequence of S. hengshanica is 15,623 bp in size, containing 13 protein-coding genes (PCGs), two ribosomal RNA genes (rRNAs), 22 transfer RNA genes (tRNAs), as well as one A ...
Kaňuch, Peter Cassel-Lundhagen, Anna Preuss, Sonja Nordlander, Göran Berggren, Åsa
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Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
To understand colonization success of an invasive species we need to know the origin of the founders, where and when they were introduced, and how they spread from the introduction site(s) through the landscape. Admixture of different genetic lineages from multiple introductions is generally hypothesized to be beneficial to invasive species thanks ...
Kataoka, Kosuke Togawa, Yuki Sanno, Ryuto Asahi, Toru Yura, Kei
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Biophysical reviews
Significant advances in biophysical methods such as next-generation sequencing technologies have now opened the way to conduct evolutionary and applied research based on the genomic information of greatly diverse insects. Crickets belonging to Orthoptera (Insecta: Polyneoptera), one of the most flourishing groups of insects, have contributed to the...
Nair, Aswathy Balakrishnan, Rohini
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Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
Anthropogenic activities are changing the sensory landscape, interfering with transmission and reception of sexual signals. These changes are leading to alterations in mating behaviour with consequences to fitness. In systems where mate-finding involves long-distance signalling by one sex and approach by the other sex, the spatial distribution of s...
Feng, Xiaolei Yang, Nan Wang, Qilu Yuan, Hao Li, Xuejuan Majid, Muhammad Zhang, Xue Cao, Chengquan Huang, Yuan
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Genome Biology and Evolution
The pygmy mole cricket Xya riparia (Orthoptera: Tridactyloidea) is rarely studied or widely known. Some species of pygmy mole crickets, however, not only have a potential ecological value but are also important in the study of the evolution of the orthopteran genome and its phylogenetic relationships. The genome resources of pygmy crickets are limi...
SOFRANE, Zina Dupont, Simon DOUMANDJI, Saleheddine Bagnères, Anne-Geneviève
The Oedipodinae subfamily is the most species-rich and numerically abundant group of Acrididae in Algeria. Here, genetic and chemical data were used to characterize the identities of six species: Oedipoda miniata mauritanica (Lucas, 1849); Acrotylus patruelis (Herrich-Shaeffer, 1838); A. insubricus insubricus (Scopoli, 1786); Sphingonotus (Neosphin...
Heinze, Pauline Dieker, Petra Rowland, Hannah M Schielzeth, Holger
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Behavioral Ecology
Grasshoppers are highly variable in body color. But do individuals of different color variants choose different substrates to rest on? We show that they do. Furthermore, we test if potential predators are able to perceive the differences between color variants. It turns out that some do and some do not. Individual substrate choice can thus contribu...
Rossi, G. Durek, J. Ojha, S. Schlüter, O.K.
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Current Research in Food Science
• Fluorescence landscape of edible insects comprises of 5 different peaks. • Similar fluorescence compounds are present among several Orthoptera species. • Fluorescence peaks of edible insects result from several chemical molecules. • Fluorescence intensity of edible insects depends on their species and origin.
