she claimed that locusts and locust birds kept 'each other in check, ever regulating the balance of their power'.50 Barber was again ahead of her time with this theory as it took until the 1920s for the relationship between prey and predators to be sci- entifically defined in the Lotka–...
We adopted a unique methodology in order to assess authentic emotions elicited by arthropods. Over 300 respondents were asked to rate live specimens of 62 arthropod species (including spiders, scorpions, cockroaches, and other insects) based on perceived fear, disgust, and beauty. We found that ...
silkworm28,29, cockroaches30and locusts31. In all these species, there were highly significant differences in the expression of the genes encoding the different enzymes, with JHAMT and epoxidase as the most highly expressed genes. In addition, in all these...
We describe a new type of collective behavior in C. elegans nematodes, aggregation of starved L1 larvae. Shortly after hatching in the absence of food, L1 larvae arrest their development and disperse in search for food. In contrast, after two or more day