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Researchers solve puzzles surrounding parasite immunity and development
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
Research led by a University of Maryland team has identified the first inter-species, signalling pathway between an arthropod parasite and host, where molecules in the blood of a host animal trigger the immunity and development of a parasite.
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Scientists uncover mysteries around parasite immunity, development
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
The study, which was published on January 13 in the journal Science, identifies a potential target for anti-tick vaccines or therapeutics to prevent the spread of infections like Lyme disease.
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Scientists discover new fossil which reveals origin of arthropod breathing
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
University of Manchester research fellow David Legg, in collaboration with a team of international scientists from China, Switzerland, and Sweden, has today announced a new fossil that reveals the origin of gills in arthropods.
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Fossil site reveals giant arthropods dominated seas 470 million years ago
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Discoveries at a major new fossil site in Morocco suggest giant arthropods - relatives of modern creatures including shrimps, insects and spiders - dominated the seas 470 million years ago. Early evidence from the site at Taichoute, once undersea but now a desert, records numerous large "fre
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Scientists discover new fossil revealing origin of arthropod breathing sys
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
University of Manchester research fellow David Legg, in collaboration with a team of international scientists from China, Switzerland, and Sweden, has announced a new fossil that reveals the origin of gills in arthropods.
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525-million-year-old fossil contradicts textbook theory of brain evolution
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
According to a new study, fossils of a tiny sea creature with a delicately preserved nervous system solve a century-old debate over how the brain evolved in arthropods, the most species-rich group in the animal kingdom. Combining detailed anatomical studies of the fossilized nervous syste
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Half-a-billion year old fossilised brain of sea creature defies textbook e
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
According to a new study, fossils of a tiny sea creature with a delicately preserved nervous system solve a century-old debate over how the brain evolved in arthropods, the most species-rich group in the animal kingdom. Combining detailed anatomical studies of the fossilized nervous system w
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Welsh 'weird wonder' fossils add piece to puzzle of arthropod evolution
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
International team of researchers describe new fossil species discovered in fossil deposit near Llandrindod Wells in mid-Wales. The fossil, Mierridduryn bonniae, shares many features with Cambrian 'weird wonder' Opabinia, but is 40 million years younger. Robust phylogenetic analyses suggest
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Research: Tropical insects are extremely sensitive to changing climates
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 15 (ANI): Insects that are adapted to perennially wet environments, like tropical rainforests, don't tend to do well when their surroundings dry out. New research indicates they may be equally averse to heavy rainfall. The results of an extensive five-year study co
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Birds eat 400 to 500 million tonnes of insects annually: Study
Updated : 6 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Sept 2 (ANI): Birds around the world eat 400 to 500 million metric tonnes of beetles, flies, ants, moths, aphids, grasshoppers, crickets and other arthropod per year, claims a study.
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