Dennis S. Petersen, Nils Kreuter, Lars Heepe, Sebastian Büsse, Arndt H. J. Wellbrock, Klaudia Witte, and Stanislav N. GorbThe louse fly Crataerina pallida is an obligate blood-sucking ecto-parasite of the common swift Apus apus. Due to reducti…
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Holding tight on feathers – structural specializations and attachment properties of the avian ectoparasite Crataerina pallida (Diptera, Hippoboscidae) [RESEARCH ARTICLE]
Posted by Petersen, D. S., Kreuter, N., Heepe, L., Büsse, S., Wellbrock, A. H. J., Witte, K., Gorb, S. N. on April 30th, 2018
Posted in Biology, Science General 
Tags: attachment, attachment system, crataerina, crataerina pallida, dichotomously, dichotomously shaped, dichotomously shaped setae, Diptera, ectoparasite, entire, entire attachment, entire attachment system, Feathers, Microscopy, Pallida, pulvilli, Scanning, shaped, shaped setae, Smooth, Substrates, system, the entire attachment 
No Comments »Polarized object detection in crabs: a two-channel system [RESEARCH ARTICLE]
Posted by Basnak, M. A., Perez-Schuster, V., Hermitte, G., de Astrada, M. B. on April 12th, 2018
Melanie Ailin Basnak, Veronica Perez-Schuster, Gabriela Hermitte, and Martin Beron de AstradaMany animal species take advantage of polarization vision for vital tasks such as orientation, communication, and contrast enhancement. Previous studies have …
Posted in Biology, Science General Tags: and horizontal orientations, Animals, Background, changes, channel, contrast, contrast enhancement, contrast sensitivity, detection, Enhancement, escape, escape response, horizontal, horizontal orientations, motion, object, Object Detection, obtained, Orientations, Polarization, Polarization Contrast, polarization contrast sensitivity, polarization vision, polarized, polarized object, polarized object detection, response, results, sensitivity, Stimulus, system, the polarization contrast, Vectors, vertical, vision No Comments »Free online tool could help women decide on breast reconstruction
Posted by Jean Balchin on April 5th, 2018
A new study published in Psycho-Oncology has revealed that a free web-based decision aid that helps women with breast cancer make decisions regarding reconstruction surgery after mastectomy is likely cost-effective. BRECONDA (Breast Reconstruction De…
Posted in Biology, Environment, Geology and Paleontology, Science General, Technology Tags: Breast, Breast Reconstruction, could help women, decision, Decisions, free online tool, help women decide, online, online tool could, Reconstruction, reconstruction surgery, surgery, tool could help, women decide No Comments »Trematocranus pachychilus, a new endemic cichlid from Lake Malawi (Teleostei, Cichlidae)
Posted by Latest Articles from ZooKeys on March 14th, 2018
ZooKeys 743: 153-166
DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.743.22814
Authors: Katrien Dierickx, Mark Hanssens, Bosco Rusuwa, Jos Snoeks
Abstract: A new species of Trematocranus, T. pachychilus sp. n., is described from Lake Malawi. So far, it has o…
Posted in Biology Tags: distinguished, from lake malawi, Malawi, microstoma, pachychilus, Pharyngeal, placodon, species, trematocranus, trematocranus pachychilus, zookeys No Comments »The Manú Gradient as a study system for bird pollination
Posted by Latest Articles from Biodiversity Data Journal on March 2nd, 2018
Biodiversity Data Journal 6: e22241
DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.6.e22241
Authors: Mannfred Boehm, Micah Scholer, Jeremiah Kennedy, Julian Heavyside, Aniceto Daza, David Guevara-Apaza, Jill Jankowski
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