Journal of computational neuroscience
Apr 23, 2015
Inter-segmental coordination is crucial for the locomotion of animals. Arthropods show high variability of leg numbers, from 6 in insects up to 750 legs in millipedes. Despite this fact, the anatomical and functional organization of their nervous sys...
Understanding the patterns of interconnections between neurons in complex networks is an enormous challenge using traditional physiological approaches. Here we combine the use of an information theoretic approach with intracellular recording to estab...
Journal of peptide science : an official publication of the European Peptide Society
Mar 1, 2025
Insects, a majority of animal species, rely on innate immunity and antimicrobial peptides (AMPs), which are a part of their innate immunity, to combat diverse parasites and pathogens. These peptides have applications ranging from agriculture to antim...
Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.)
Jan 1, 2025
Insects rely on olfaction in many aspects of their life, and odorant receptors are key proteins in this process. Whereas a plethora of insect odorant receptor sequences is available, most of them are still orphan or uncompletely characterized, since ...
RNA interference (RNAi) technology is widely used in the biological prevention and control of terrestrial insects. One of the main factors with the application of RNAi in insects is the difference in RNAi efficiency, which may vary not only in differ...
Forensic entomology provides a feasible way to estimate postmortem interval (PMI), of which the growth and development of sarcosaprophagous insects is the most widely used indicator in forensic practice. Over the years, forensic entomologists have ca...
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Jan 12, 2021
Most animal species on Earth are insects, and recent reports suggest that their abundance is in drastic decline. Although these reports come from a wide range of insect taxa and regions, the evidence to assess the extent of the phenomenon is sparse. ...
The generation of walking patterns is central to bio-inspired robotics and has been attained using methods encompassing diverse numerical as well as analog implementations. Here, we demonstrate the possibility of synthesizing viable gaits using a par...