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5 unusual facts about arthropod


Anthropod

Arthropod, animals of the phylum Arthropoda, including insects, arachnids, and crustaceans

Anthropoid

Arthropod, the animal phylum including insects, arachnids, and crustaceans

Central Oregon Coast Range

Arthropods include various spiders, millipedes, collembolans, beetles, and a variety of centipedes.

Smile PreCure!

Despite her general confidence, she is very scared of certain things such as bugs, ghosts and heights.

The Nightmare Before Christmas: The Pumpkin King

Unfortunately, Oogie is upset that no one remembered his own holiday, "New Bug Day".


C. antarcticus

Cryptopygus antarcticus, the Antarctic springtail, an arthropod species native to Antarctica and Australia

Carrion insects

Although specific arthropod species present at remains will vary by geographic location, some examples of common blowflies are Calliphora vicina, Phormia regina, Protophormia terraenovae and Lucilia sericata

Entomologist's Monthly Magazine

The journal publishes original papers and notes on all orders of insects and terrestrial arthropods from any part of the world, specialising in groups other than Lepidoptera.

Ground Tit

It obtains food on the ground, eating a wide range of arthropod prey, often obtained by probing Yak (Bos grunniens) dung and turning it over to flush the prey out.

Marsh Tapaculo

It forages at or near ground-level and feeds on small arthropods, mainly insects such as bugs and beetles.

Niles Eldredge

His specialty was the evolution of mid-Paleozoic Phacopida trilobites: a group of extinct arthropods that lived between 543 and 245 million years ago.

Soil food web

For example, a Berlese funnel, used to collect small arthropods, creates a light/heat gradient in the soil sample.

Tegopelte

Tegopelte gigas is a species of soft-bodied arthropod known from two specimens from the Walcott Quarry.

Transovarial transmission

This is the mechanism by which many Rickettsiae are maintained in their arthropod hosts through generations, which occurs also in aedes mosquito vector of the yellow fever virus and in phlebotomine sandflies that transmit pappataci fever.

Walter Jakob Gehring

In 1983 Gehring and his collaborators (William McGinnis, Michael S. Levine, Ernst Hafen, Richard Garber, Atsushi Kuroiwa, Johannes Wirz), discovered the homeobox, a DNA segment characteristic for homeotic genes which is not only present in arthropods and their ancestors, but also in vertebrates including man.


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