ON FRACTIONAL-ORDER SYMMETRIC OSCILLATOR WITH OFFSET-BOOSTING CONTROL


Emergence of Extreme Paw Accelerations During Cat Paw Shaking: Interactions of Spinal Central Pattern Generator, Hindlimb Mechanics and Muscle Length-Depended Feedback

Cat paw shaking is a spinal reflex for removing an irritating stimulus 6-0 igora vibrance from paw by developing extremely high paw accelerations.Previous studies of paw shaking revealed a proximal-to-distal gradient of hindlimb segmental velocities/accelerations, as well as complex inter-joint coordination: passive motion-dependent interaction mom

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De novo transcriptome assembly from fat body and flight muscles transcripts to identify morph-specific gene expression profiles in Gryllus firmus.

Wing polymorphism is a powerful model for examining many aspects of adaptation.The wing dimorphic cricket species, Gryllus firmus, consists of a long-winged morph with functional flight muscles that is capable of flight, and two flightless morphs.One (obligately) flightless morph emerges as an adult with vestigial wings and vestigial flight muscles

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Evolution of vacuolar proton pyrophosphatase domains and volutin granules: clues into the early evolutionary origin of the acidocalcisome

Abstract Background Volutin granules appear to be universally distributed and are morphologically and chemically identical to acidocalcisomes, which are electron-dense granular organelles rich in calcium and phosphate, whose functions include storage of phosphorus and various metal ions, metabolism of polyphosphate, maintenance of intracellular pH,

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Taxonomic identification using geometric morphometric approach and limited data: an example using the upper molars of two sympatric species of Calomys (Cricetidae: Rodentia)

ABSTRACT The taxonomic identification of micromammals might be complicated when the study material is fragmented, as it is the case with pellets and fossil material.On the other hand, tooth morphology generally provides accurate information for species identification.Teeth preserve notably well, retaining their original morphology, unlike skulls an

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