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Cover: Manduca sexta probing on a Datura sp. flower. After locating a flower and extending its proboscis, moths still need to find the concealed nectar. Goyret (pp. 3676−3682) found that M. sexta initially utilize visual input to place their proboscis and explore the corolla surface with a series of fast pokes, and that subsequent tactile feedback controls a 'forward diving' response leading to the nectar reservoir. These fine-scale motor responses elicited by different floral traits appear to be in concert with the adjusted morphology of pollinators and flowers required for both efficient foraging and effective pollen transfer. Photo credit: Michael A. Bryan (mike.bryan@sbcglobal.net).Close Modal - PDF Icon PDF LinkTable of contents
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In the field: an interview with Martha Muñoz
Martha Muñoz is an Assistant Professor at Yale University, investigating the evolutionary biology of anole lizards and lungless salamanders. In our new Conversation, she talks about her fieldwork in Indonesia, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic and the Appalachian Mountains, including a death-defying dash to the top of a mountain through an approaching hurricane.
Graham Scott in conversation with Big Biology
Graham Scott talks to Big Biology about the oxygen cascade in mice living on mountaintops, extreme environments for such small organisms. In this JEB-sponsored episode, they discuss the concept of symmorphosis and the evolution of the oxygen cascade.
Trap-jaw ants coordinate tendon and exoskeleton for perfect mandible arc
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Trap-jaw ants run the risk of tearing themselves apart when they fire off their mandibles, but Greg Sutton & co have discovered that the ants simultaneously push and pull the mandibles using energy stored in a head tendon and their exoskeleton to drive the jaws in a perfect arc.
Hearing without a tympanic ear
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In their Review, Grace Capshaw, Jakob Christensen-Dalsgaard and Catherine Carr explore the mechanisms of hearing in extant atympanate vertebrates and the implications for the early evolution of tympanate hearing.
