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Ant cuticle microsculpture: diversity, classification, evolution, and function
<p>My thesis covers the intricacies of ant microsculpture diversity, classification, evolution and function. To do this, the thesis is organized into two chapters. The first chapter is a review of ant cuticle and microsculpture diversity as well as including analyses examining the evolution and …
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How beetles explode : new insights into the operation, structure, and materials of bombardier beetle (Brachinini) defensive glands
… chamber. In Chapter 3, the interior cuticular microsculpture of the reaction chamber is studied using scanning electron microscopy and synchrotron x-ray phase-contrast microtomography. The microscupture is found to be highly complex, with a number of distinct spiny microtextures localized to …