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SUBMITTER: Pendar H
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4528475 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Biology letters 20150601 6
Insects that are small or exhibit low metabolic rates are considered to not require active ventilation to augment diffusive gas exchange. Some pupae with low metabolic rates exhibit abdominal pumping, a behaviour that is known to drive tracheal ventilation in the adults of many species. However, previous work on pupae suggests that abdominal pumping may serve a non-respiratory role. To study the role of abdominal pumping in pupa of the beetle Zophobas morio, we visualized tracheal dynamics with ...[more]