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- Morphology, performance and fluid dynamics of the crayfish escape response
Highlighted Article: The crayfish tail creates a vortex during the escape response. Momentum is added by the ventral pleopod appendages.
- Greater agility increases probability of survival in the endangered northern quoll
Summary: High agility and body condition are advantageous for survival in female endangered northern quolls; development of predictive models that incorporate both predator and prey locomotor performance will give greater understanding on the vulnerability of native species to introduced predators.
- Fine sand particles enable antlions to build pitfall traps with advanced three-dimensional geometry
Summary: Antlions construct pitfall traps in fine sand to catch their prey. Three-dimensional laser scanning was used for the first time to analyse the shape of an unusual antlion pit.
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When fieldwork meets a global pandemic
“Eventually, food transport was going to be stopped, so the field team were airlifted back to Cayenne.”
For Lauren O’Connell (Stanford University), lockdown had a dramatic start when members of her lab were given 24 hours’ notice to detag their poison frogs and evacuate their field station in French Guiana. Read the full story to find out more and hear how her lab is now returning to the bench.
Journal of Cell Science launches new microscopy community site
FocalPlane is an online meeting place for microscopists and biologists to share the latest microscopy news, events and resources. Find out more from Community Manager Christos Kyprianou and read the origin story of FocalPlane.
Pygmy mice whistle for the audience
Pygmy mice voices are much deeper than expected, as deep as those of rats which are 40 times their size, and even more surprisingly, instead of using their vocal cords to communicate, pygmy mice whistle.
E-journal price freeze for 2021
In recognition of the unprecedented and ongoing challenges facing the library and research communities worldwide, there will be no increase in The Company of Biologists’ e-journal prices in 2021. Further details are available in the full announcement.
Molecular mechanisms of biomineralization in marine invertebrates
Understanding marine biomineralization has many tangible benefits in our changing world. In a new Review, Melody Clark (British Antarctic Survey) discusses our current understanding of the factors affecting skeletal production in marine invertebrates.