Post Views: 4,090 Regions of the world, geographically isolated from other continents for millions of years, have allowed the appearance of unique, rare and incredible
Tag: biology
Publication in the journal Nature/Heredity of some of my results on Heliconius butterflies
Post Views: 1,678 Heliconius within the “Institute of Systematics, Evolution and Biodiversity” of Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle de Paris (UMR 7205-CNRS) and on the Gamboa
Insect size records!
Post Views: 2,869 For most people, insects are very small animals that run, fly or swim around us. Or, some species have sizes far exceeding
Sensory receptors in insects: mechanoreceptors – Part 1: cuticular mechanoreceptors
Post Views: 4,096 First part : cuticular mechanoreceptors Alike all arthropods, insects have an external skeleton, the exoskeleton, consisting of chitin and forming the cuticle
Revision of lepidopteran (butterfly) phylogeny
Post Views: 2,581 The discovery of a new lepidopteran family, unpublished since the 1970s, was made with the capture of a small butterfly on “Kangaroo
New evolutionary history of the European cicadas
Post Views: 3,306 The international team led by the Swiss Professor Peter Nagel and the doctoral student Thomas Hertach have just published in the journal
The membracides, surprising little insects
Post Views: 2,431 Membersracides are small insects belonging to the super-family Membracoidea and to the order Hemiptera : aphids, leafhoppers and cicadas, characterized by an
Insect flight: aerodynamics, musculature and 2/2-way control system
Post Views: 2,130 Insects are the first organisms to have developed the ability to fly, 170 million years ago (lire article on phylogeny). The acquisition
Hatching of a gynandromorph butterfly (male/female)
Post Views: 2,611 At the Academy of Natural Sciences of the University of Drexel (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), a strange butterfly of the species Lexias pardalis emerged
Discovery on the symbiotic adaptation between the mushroom ants and their fungus
Post Views: 1,787 An interesting discovery about the mutual relations between the leaf-cutting ants (“mushroomists”) and the mushrooms they cultivate has just been published in
