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    Feeling the heat: source–sink mismatch as a mechanism underlying the failure of thermal tolerance
    Matti Vornanen
    Journal of Experimental Biology 2020 223: jeb225680 doi: 10.1242/jeb.225680 Published 20 August 2020

    Summary: A modified hypothesis about high temperature-induced failure of electrically excitable tissues is discussed; briefly, initiation and conduction of action potentials is impaired by temperature-dependent mismatch between active and passive properties of the cell membrane.

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    Evidence for a sexually selected function of the attachment system in bedbugs Cimex lectularius (Heteroptera, Cimicidae)
    Klaus Reinhardt, Dagmar Voigt, Stanislav N. Gorb
    Journal of Experimental Biology 2019 222: jeb206136 doi: 10.1242/jeb.206136 Published 19 June 2019

    Summary: Bedbugs show sexual dimorphism in attachment to smooth surfaces, consistent with sexual, but not natural, selection. Insect attachment devices may be under similarly rapid diversifying evolution as male genitalia.

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    Functional morphology of tarsal adhesive pads and attachment ability in ticks Ixodes ricinus (Arachnida, Acari, Ixodidae)
    Dagmar Voigt, Stanislav Gorb
    Journal of Experimental Biology 2017 220: 1984-1996; doi: 10.1242/jeb.152942

    Highlighted Article: Ixodes ricinus is equipped with elastic claws and foldable adhesive pads which result in a tarsal attachment of up to 534 times female body mass to smooth surfaces.

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    Mechanical performance of spider orb webs is tuned for high-speed prey
    Andrew T. Sensenig, Sean P. Kelly, Kimberly A. Lorentz, Brittany Lesher, Todd A. Blackledge
    Journal of Experimental Biology 2013 216: 3388-3394; doi: 10.1242/jeb.085571

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