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Mandible strike kinematics of the trap-jaw ant genus Anochetus Mayr (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

Authors :
Andrew V. Suarez
Fredrick J. Larabee
Joshua C. Gibson
Axel Touchard
Jérôme Orivel
Ecologie des forêts de Guyane (UMR ECOFOG)
Université des Antilles (UA)-Université de Guyane (UG)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-AgroParisTech-Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (Cirad)-Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)
Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (Cirad)-Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-AgroParisTech-Université de Guyane (UG)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université des Antilles (UA)
National Science Foundation [DDIG DEB-1407279]
Smithsonian Institution (Peter Buck Fellowship)
National Geographic Society [9481-14]
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
'Investissement d'Avenir' grant [ANR-10-LABX-0025]
Source :
Australian Journal of Zoology, Australian Journal of Zoology, CSIRO Publishing, 2018, 306 (2), pp.119-128. ⟨10.1111/jzo.12580⟩
Publication Year :
2018
Publisher :
HAL CCSD, 2018.

Abstract

International audience; High-speed power-amplification mechanisms are common throughout the animal kingdom. In ants, power-amplified trap-jaw mandibles have evolved independently at least four times, including once in the subfamily Ponerinae which contains the sister genera Odontomachus and Anochetus. In Odontomachus, mandible strikes have been relatively well described and can occur in

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
0004959X
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Australian Journal of Zoology, Australian Journal of Zoology, CSIRO Publishing, 2018, 306 (2), pp.119-128. ⟨10.1111/jzo.12580⟩
Accession number :
edsair.doi.dedup.....9325ff59c1e4e22e774d8b67318c55e4
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1111/jzo.12580⟩