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Spatially ordered recruitment of fast muscles in accordance with movement strengths in larval zebrafish. 斑马鱼幼鱼快速肌肉的空间有序招募与运动强度一致。
IF 1.7 3区 生物学
Zoological Letters Pub Date : 2025-01-03 DOI: 10.1186/s40851-024-00247-8
Sayaka Shimizu, Taisei Katayama, Nozomi Nishiumi, Masashi Tanimoto, Yukiko Kimura, Shin-Ichi Higashijima
{"title":"Spatially ordered recruitment of fast muscles in accordance with movement strengths in larval zebrafish.","authors":"Sayaka Shimizu, Taisei Katayama, Nozomi Nishiumi, Masashi Tanimoto, Yukiko Kimura, Shin-Ichi Higashijima","doi":"10.1186/s40851-024-00247-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s40851-024-00247-8","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In vertebrates, skeletal muscle comprises fast and slow fibers. Slow and fast muscle cells in fish are spatially segregated; slow muscle cells are located only in a superficial region, and comprise a small fraction of the total muscle cell mass. Slow muscles support low-speed, low-force movements, while fast muscles are responsible for high-speed, high-force movements. However, speed and strength of movement are not binary states, but rather fall on a continuum. This raises the question of whether any recruitment patterns exist within fast muscles, which constitute the majority of muscle cell mass. In the present study, we investigated activation patterns of trunk fast muscles during movements of varying speeds and strengths using larval zebrafish. We employed two complementary methods: calcium imaging and electrophysiology. The results obtained from both methods supported the conclusion that there are spatially-ordered recruitment patterns in fast muscle cells. During weaker/slower movements, only the lateral portion of fast muscle cells is recruited. As the speed or strength of the movements increases, more fast muscle cells are recruited in a spatially-ordered manner, progressively from lateral to medial. We also conducted anatomical studies to examine muscle fiber size. The results of those experiments indicated that muscle fiber size increases systematically from lateral to medial. Therefore, the spatially ordered recruitment of fast muscle fibers, progressing from lateral to medial, correlates with an increase in fiber size. These findings provide significant insights into the organization and function of fast muscles in larval zebrafish, illustrating how spatial recruitment and fiber size interact to optimize movement performance.</p>","PeriodicalId":54280,"journal":{"name":"Zoological Letters","volume":"11 1","pages":"1"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-01-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11697752/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142928633","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Ecology of endolithic bryozoans: colony development, growth rates and interactions of species in the genus Immergentia. 内石孔虫的生态学:Immergentia 属物种的群落发展、生长率和相互作用。
IF 1.7 3区 生物学
Zoological Letters Pub Date : 2024-12-31 DOI: 10.1186/s40851-024-00246-9
Mildred J Johnson, Sarah Lemer, Masato Hirose, Sebastian H Decker, Thomas Schwaha
{"title":"Ecology of endolithic bryozoans: colony development, growth rates and interactions of species in the genus Immergentia.","authors":"Mildred J Johnson, Sarah Lemer, Masato Hirose, Sebastian H Decker, Thomas Schwaha","doi":"10.1186/s40851-024-00246-9","DOIUrl":"10.1186/s40851-024-00246-9","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Boring bryozoans dissolve calcium carbonate substrates, leaving unique borehole traces. Depending on the shell type, borehole apertures and colony morphology can be diagnostic for distinguishing taxa, but to discriminate among species their combination with zooidal morphology is essential. All boring (endolithic) bryozoans are ctenostomes that, along with other boring taxa, are common in benthic communities. The growth rates of such bryozoans, including Immergentiidae, are largely unknown. For the first time laboratory experiments were conducted to determine growth rates and early colony development of the intertidal species Immergentia stephanieae and the subtidal species I. cf. suecica from Roscoff, France. In growth experiment 1, ancestrular growth rates varied, with the highest rates in I. stephanieae at 96.5 µm day<sup>-1</sup> and the lowest at 1.1 µm day<sup>-1</sup>, during the period of August to October, in which the number of reproductive zooids was comparably higher than in other months of the year. Immergentia cf. suecica had a higher proportion of reproductive zooids from December to March compared to other months. In growth experiment 2, the bryozoans were fed a culture mixture of Chaetoceros calcitrans and Tisochrysis lutea which was compared with a control. The growth rate of small colonies of comparable size was greater in the food-enriched samples compared to the control (non-enriched). In larger colonies, the trend differed with greater growth (cystid appendage expansion) rate reported for some samples in the control. In food-enriched samples ancestrulae of I. stephanieae grew at 23 µm day<sup>-1</sup> and I. cf. suecica 9.3 µm day<sup>-1</sup> while no growth was observed in the control of I. cf. suecica, but 0.4 µm day<sup>-1</sup> was reported for I. stephanieae. Growth patterns in the early developmental stages showed that the budding patterns from the ancestrulae were the same for both species, with different enantiomorphic tendencies. Inter- and intraspecific interactions are also discussed. The distribution of immergentiids is presented, as are records from new locations and the greatest subtidal depth of collection reported to date.</p>","PeriodicalId":54280,"journal":{"name":"Zoological Letters","volume":"10 1","pages":"23"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11686985/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142907901","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Evolution of wing scales in Diptera documented by fossils. 化石记录了双翅目昆虫翅鳞的进化。
IF 1.7 3区 生物学
Zoological Letters Pub Date : 2024-12-30 DOI: 10.1186/s40851-024-00244-x
Ewa Krzemińska, Wiesław Krzemiński, Iwona Kania-Kłosok, Jadwiga Stanek-Tarkowska, Kornelia Skibińska, Daubian Santos
{"title":"Evolution of wing scales in Diptera documented by fossils.","authors":"Ewa Krzemińska, Wiesław Krzemiński, Iwona Kania-Kłosok, Jadwiga Stanek-Tarkowska, Kornelia Skibińska, Daubian Santos","doi":"10.1186/s40851-024-00244-x","DOIUrl":"10.1186/s40851-024-00244-x","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Among the insects with wings clad in scales, the butterflies are the best known and those showing greatest variety of scale types. In the Diptera, some families or particular genera of two large groups are known to bear scales on wings, i.e., mosquitoes (Culicomorpha) and moth flies (Psychodomorpha). From among another large dipteran group, the crane-flies (Tipulomorpha), scales are present on wings only in one small genus, Maietta Alexander, now endemic to the southwestern coast of South America. Here, we describe an Eocene ancestor of Maietta, embedded in Baltic amber, Maietta hoffeinsetta, n. sp. This species and its recent congeners document evolution of scale cover from sparse and scarce, restricted only to anterior portion of wing, to complete and dense. A similar parallel evolutionary route was previously described in the Culicidae. The fossil representative of Maietta provides also a further example of biogeographical relationships of Baltic fauna with recent congeners distributed today far from Europe. The present finding prompts a discussion on a possible role of scales in adaptation to post Eocene cooling down of climate.</p>","PeriodicalId":54280,"journal":{"name":"Zoological Letters","volume":"10 1","pages":"22"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11687164/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142907916","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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The lost generation of Pemphigus populiglobuli (Hemiptera, Aphididae): exploring the taxonomy of the Svalbard aphids of genus Pemphigus. 天疱疮的失代(半翅目,蚜科):天疱疮属斯瓦尔巴蚜虫的分类探讨。
IF 1.7 3区 生物学
Zoological Letters Pub Date : 2024-12-18 DOI: 10.1186/s40851-024-00245-w
Karina Wieczorek, Dominik Chłond, Emmanuelle Jousselin, Stephen J Coulson
{"title":"The lost generation of Pemphigus populiglobuli (Hemiptera, Aphididae): exploring the taxonomy of the Svalbard aphids of genus Pemphigus.","authors":"Karina Wieczorek, Dominik Chłond, Emmanuelle Jousselin, Stephen J Coulson","doi":"10.1186/s40851-024-00245-w","DOIUrl":"10.1186/s40851-024-00245-w","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Species identification within the aphid genus Pemphigus Hartig, 1839 poses challenges due to morphological similarities and host-plant associations. Aphids of this genus generally exhibit complex life cycles involving primary hosts (poplars) and secondary (mostly unrelated herbaceous) host-plants, with some species relying solely on root-feeding generation. An example is a representative of the genus Pemphigus, trophically associated with grass roots, found in the High Arctic Svalbard archipelago. Historical records tentatively identify it as Pemphigus groenlandicus (Rübsaamen, 1898), although its formal classification remains elusive, due to limited material of freshly collected samples. Recent collections from 2007 to 2024 across various Svalbard sites, revealed its presence under stones in sheltered microhabitats, providing valuable specimens for comparative studies. Our molecular analyses indicate that the Svalbard specimens are not a separate species commonly identified as P. groenlandicus, nor an anholocyclic generation of Pemphigus bursarius (Linnaeus, 1758) or P. borealis Tullgren, 1909, but represent a secondary generation of Pemphigus populiglobuli Fitch, 1859, the Nearctic poplar bullet gall aphid. This suggests that they may have lost their primary host associations and adapted to living on grass roots year-round. Our specimens did not host any known facultative symbionts; however, we detected a strain of Pseudomonas Migula, 1894, closely related to a cold-tolerant bacterium abundant in polar regions. The present study also investigates the taxonomic relationships and morphometric characteristics of grass-feeding Pemphigus populations across the Arctic and an isolated locations on the European continent. Specimens from Svalbard were compared with samples from Greenland and Iceland, but identified no substantial morphometric differences among these geographically separated populations. Similarly, analyses of samples of Pemphigus groenlandicus crassicornis Hille Ris Lambers, 1952 from Sweden and Spain reveals a high morphometric similarity to the Arctic population, indicating a strong link between these traits and geographical variability. Despite the limitations in fresh material availability across locations, minor morphometric variations and shared ecological niches (all populations studied inhabiting grass roots, a unique trait within the Pemphigus genus) suggest treating both P. groenlandicus and its subspecies crassicornis as a junior synonym to P. populiglobuli. The study also demonstrates that the secondary generation of P. populiglobuli is a terrestrial microarthropod that overwinters in a postembryonic life-stage in situ in soil and vegetation under harsh Arctic conditions, and its cryptic life complicates its distribution mapping.</p>","PeriodicalId":54280,"journal":{"name":"Zoological Letters","volume":"10 1","pages":"21"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11658103/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142856400","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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A transphyletic study of metazoan β-catenin protein complexes. 后生动物β-连环蛋白复合物的转体研究。
IF 1.7 3区 生物学
Zoological Letters Pub Date : 2024-12-02 DOI: 10.1186/s40851-024-00243-y
Ivan Mbogo, Chihiro Kawano, Ryotaro Nakamura, Yuko Tsuchiya, Alejandro Villar-Briones, Yoshitoshi Hirao, Yuuri Yasuoka, Eisuke Hayakawa, Kentaro Tomii, Hiroshi Watanabe
{"title":"A transphyletic study of metazoan β-catenin protein complexes.","authors":"Ivan Mbogo, Chihiro Kawano, Ryotaro Nakamura, Yuko Tsuchiya, Alejandro Villar-Briones, Yoshitoshi Hirao, Yuuri Yasuoka, Eisuke Hayakawa, Kentaro Tomii, Hiroshi Watanabe","doi":"10.1186/s40851-024-00243-y","DOIUrl":"10.1186/s40851-024-00243-y","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Beta-catenin is essential for diverse biological processes, such as body axis determination and cell differentiation, during metazoan embryonic development. Beta-catenin is thought to exert such functions through complexes formed with various proteins. Although β-catenin complex proteins have been identified in several bilaterians, little is known about the structural and functional properties of β-catenin complexes in early metazoan evolution. In the present study, we performed a comparative analysis of β-catenin sequences in nonbilaterian lineages that diverged early in metazoan evolution. We also carried out transphyletic function experiments with β-catenin from nonbilaterian metazoans using developing Xenopus embryos, including secondary axis induction in embryos and proteomic analysis of β-catenin protein complexes. Comparative functional analysis of nonbilaterian β-catenins demonstrated sequence characteristics important for β-catenin functions, and the deep origin and evolutionary conservation of the cadherin-catenin complex. Proteins that co-immunoprecipitated with β-catenin included several proteins conserved among metazoans. These data provide new insights into the conserved repertoire of β-catenin complexes.</p>","PeriodicalId":54280,"journal":{"name":"Zoological Letters","volume":"10 1","pages":"20"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11613877/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142774879","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Correction: Scleral appearance is not a correlate of domestication in mammals. 更正:巩膜外观与哺乳动物的驯化无关。
IF 1.7 3区 生物学
Zoological Letters Pub Date : 2024-10-28 DOI: 10.1186/s40851-024-00242-z
Kai R Caspar, Lisa Hüttner, Sabine Begall
{"title":"Correction: Scleral appearance is not a correlate of domestication in mammals.","authors":"Kai R Caspar, Lisa Hüttner, Sabine Begall","doi":"10.1186/s40851-024-00242-z","DOIUrl":"10.1186/s40851-024-00242-z","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54280,"journal":{"name":"Zoological Letters","volume":"10 1","pages":"19"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11520866/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142523656","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Unique bone histology of modern giant salamanders: a study on humeri and femora of Andrias spp. 现代大鲵独特的骨骼组织学:对大鲵肱骨和股骨的研究
IF 1.7 3区 生物学
Zoological Letters Pub Date : 2024-10-18 DOI: 10.1186/s40851-024-00240-1
Nicole Klein, Dorota Konietzko-Meier, Sudipta Kalita, Masahiro Noda, Sena Ishikawa, Yuki Taguchi, Wataru Anzai, Shoji Hayashi
{"title":"Unique bone histology of modern giant salamanders: a study on humeri and femora of Andrias spp.","authors":"Nicole Klein, Dorota Konietzko-Meier, Sudipta Kalita, Masahiro Noda, Sena Ishikawa, Yuki Taguchi, Wataru Anzai, Shoji Hayashi","doi":"10.1186/s40851-024-00240-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s40851-024-00240-1","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The osteohistology of Andrias spp. is a pivotal analogue for large fossil non-amniotes (e.g., Temnospondyli), and the endangered status of this taxon underlines the importance of gathering information on its growth. We here present the first osteohistological study by petrographic thin sections of an ontogenetic series of humeri and femora of eight individuals of varying sizes (28.5-104 cm) and ages (2.5-32 years) of Andrias japonicus from the Hiroshima City Asa Zoological Park, Japan. In addition, two individuals of A. cf. davidianus of unknown age but of different size (62 cm and 94 cm) were studied. All samples of Andrias spp. show a primary avascular periosteal cortex made of parallel-fibred tissue around the ossification center in the petrographic thin sections. Mainly in small individuals, the fibers forming this tissue are very coarse and loosely organized. With increasing size and age, the coarse tissue is irregularly intermixed and later replaced with finer and better organized fibers. This histologic change is accompanied by a change from diffuse annuli in the inner cortex to distinct lines of arrested growth (LAGs) in the outer cortex. We interpret these changes in tissue and the appearance of distinct growth marks as indicating the onset of active reproduction. The lack of primary vascularization around the ossification center in our Andrias spp. sample is striking and contradicts other observations. Vascularity may be prone to plasticity and further studies are necessary. We hypothesize that the large osteocyte lacunae and the dense networks of canaliculi observed in our sample may have nourished the tissue instead of primary vascular canals. We measured the size of osteocyte lacunae of Andrias spp. in comparison to other Lissamphibia, and found them to be significantly larger throughout ontogeny. The periosteal cortex contains a high amount of thick Sharpey's fibers all around the midshaft cross sections. The two samples of Andrias cf. davidianus show tissue and growth mark distribution similar to that observed in A. japonicus. However, the large individual of A. cf. davidianus differed in its extremely osteosclerotic condition and the retention of a small layer of calcified cartilage in the endosteal region of the femur. It remains unclear whether these differences are related to plasticity, taxonomy, sex, exogenous factors, or attributable to a regenerated but fully regrown leg. Although the present study is based on zoo-kept and not wild, animals, it yields important insights into osteohistological plasticity and growth patterns in giant salamanders.</p>","PeriodicalId":54280,"journal":{"name":"Zoological Letters","volume":"10 1","pages":"18"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11488364/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142480738","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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The remarkable larval morphology of Rhaebo nasicus (Werner, 1903) (Amphibia: Anura: Bufonidae) with the erection of a new bufonid genus and insights into the evolution of suctorial tadpoles. Rhaebo nasicus (Werner, 1903) (Amphibia: Anura: Bufonidae) 的非凡幼虫形态,建立了一个新的 Bufonid 属,并揭示了蛙类蝌蚪的进化过程。
IF 1.7 3区 生物学
Zoological Letters Pub Date : 2024-09-30 DOI: 10.1186/s40851-024-00241-0
Pedro Henrique Dos Santos Dias, Jackson R Phillips, Martín O Pereyra, D Bruce Means, Alexander Haas, Philippe J R Kok
{"title":"The remarkable larval morphology of Rhaebo nasicus (Werner, 1903) (Amphibia: Anura: Bufonidae) with the erection of a new bufonid genus and insights into the evolution of suctorial tadpoles.","authors":"Pedro Henrique Dos Santos Dias, Jackson R Phillips, Martín O Pereyra, D Bruce Means, Alexander Haas, Philippe J R Kok","doi":"10.1186/s40851-024-00241-0","DOIUrl":"10.1186/s40851-024-00241-0","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Tadpoles serve as crucial evidence for testing systematic and taxonomic hypotheses. Suctorial tadpoles collected in Guyana were initially assigned to Rhaebo nasicus through molecular phylogeny. Subsequent analysis of larval and adult morphological traits revealed synapomorphies within the clade encompassing R. nasicus and R. ceratophrys, prompting the recognition of a new genus described herein as Adhaerobufo. The new genus is distinguished from other bufonids by specific phenotypic traits including an enlarged, suctorial oral disc with distinct papillae arrangements, and the presence of certain muscles and narial vacuities at the larval stage. However, only a few adult external characteristics (e.g., enlarged eyelids, infraocular cream spot), seem to be reliably discriminative from related genera. This study underscores the significance of larval morphology in anuran systematics and offers new insights into the evolution of suctorial and gastromyzophorous larvae within bufonids.</p>","PeriodicalId":54280,"journal":{"name":"Zoological Letters","volume":"10 1","pages":"17"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11440901/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142332350","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Disparity of metatibial and metatarsal cuticular and sensory structures in Cixiidae (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha) with a metatibiotarsal diagnosis for the tribes. Cixiidae(半翅目:Fulgoromorpha)跖骨和跖骨角质层及感觉结构的差异与跖胫跖骨诊断。
IF 1.7 3区 生物学
Zoological Letters Pub Date : 2024-08-26 DOI: 10.1186/s40851-024-00239-8
Jolanta Brożek, Adam Stroiński, Anna Romaniak, Thierry Bourgoin
{"title":"Disparity of metatibial and metatarsal cuticular and sensory structures in Cixiidae (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha) with a metatibiotarsal diagnosis for the tribes.","authors":"Jolanta Brożek, Adam Stroiński, Anna Romaniak, Thierry Bourgoin","doi":"10.1186/s40851-024-00239-8","DOIUrl":"10.1186/s40851-024-00239-8","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A review of the cuticular and sensory metatibial and metatarsal structures in cixiid planthoppers (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha) is proposed, depicting both their strong disparity and the great diversity of the patterns observed. Terminology and definitions for these structures are provided. The so-called lateral teeth of the metatibia in fact are particular styloconic sensory structures, called spiniform sensilla in Cixiidae. The apical metatibiotarsal teeth are non-sensory cuticular expansions, often bearing one or several chaetic sensilla ventrally, generally distributed in an internal and an external group of three teeth each, in some instances separated by a diastema; innermost and outermost teeth are generally larger. On the first tarsomere seven to eight teeth generally occur in one row, although two rows are observed in Brixidiini. A strong diversity of conformations and patterns is observed in the second metatarsomere. A specific subdorsal sensillum, of platellar type, may be present in the first metatarsomere teeth for a few taxa. It is generally present in the second metatarsomere, either as a narrow-based acutellar sensillum or as a broad-based platellar sensillum according to the taxon. Scanning electron microscope (SEM) analyses of 54 species of cixiids from all described tribes of the family, supplemented by data from the literature, are used to provide a metatibiotarsal diagnosis for each of the tribes of Cixiidae. In the state of our knowledge of the sufficiently precise observations of metatibiotarsal structures in the Cixiidae which are available, and of the phylogeny of the group as a frame of reference for their interpretations, we note that the observed patterns are probably the result of multiple and independent convergences and evolutionary regressions. These occurred at all levels of cixiid classification. Although these patterns can be useful in the identification of taxa at a low taxonomic level, they would be less useful for phylogenetic approaches.</p>","PeriodicalId":54280,"journal":{"name":"Zoological Letters","volume":"10 1","pages":"16"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-08-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11348580/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142074460","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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The burrower bug Macroscytus japonensis (Hemiptera: Cydnidae) acquires obligate symbiotic bacteria from the environment. 穴居蝽(Macroscytus japonensis)(半翅目:穴居蝽科)从环境中获取强制性共生细菌。
IF 1.7 3区 生物学
Zoological Letters Pub Date : 2024-08-02 DOI: 10.1186/s40851-024-00238-9
Takuma Nakawaki, Shuto Watanabe, Takahiro Hosokawa
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