Bah, I returned too late to make an April Fool's joke. Next year, perhaps... Anyway. Good luck with your appointment, Rodlox! Nemo, I'd like to get to writing...
The insects in question will be paedomorphic dragonfly ... their ... name! :P) ... I'd say GO! That sounds nifty, I'd encourage you to make large ones too,...
... its never too late. (and that's not counting the fact that you could always blame the post's lateness on yahoo) :D ... thank you. (a bit under two hours,...
The best wishes go to you Rodlox! Çok geçmiş olsun... Emile, I know I'Ve been a bit slow, but the group pic is on its way. You can draw up a detailed...
... I doubt this is possible -- I doubt insects can grow functional gonads before metamorphosis. AFAIK none have ever done it... Rather focus on the clades of...
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Apr 3, 2007 8:19 pm
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... No, they won't always swim, only for a quick burst of speed to escape predators. They crawl on the riverbed most of the time....
... Oh, take your time! I'm going nowhere... :) You can ... Aha. Good idea. About the aquatic insect ... Yes! I thought that maybe crayfish could have suffered...
... gonads ... Say hello to the Strepsiptera... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strepsiptera ... and the Psychidae... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bagworm ...and...
... "The parasites then undergoes holometabolous metamorphosis to become adults. Adult males emerge out of the host body while females stay on inside." After ...
David Marjanovic
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Apr 4, 2007 7:51 pm
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... from ... (as the ... Well, that means that we can have paedomophic niads then, just with asexual reproduction, that seems okay....
... However, we still need a sexual stage every now and then. (Unless those insects can somehow completely get rid of retrotransposons, as the bdelloid ...
David Marjanovic
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Apr 5, 2007 10:44 am
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... The Eocene-Oligocene transition? The Oligocene-Miocene asteroid?...
... become adults. ... inside." After ... development ... So the sandipedes can do that? Sounds good enough... I'll include it in the next sandipede draft. ......
http://eobasileus.blogspot.com/2007/04/thaumatopleuriformes-part-1.html Of course, names and other details are negotiable. What exactly do *you* have in mind? ...
... Sorry... stupid me. Myriapods don't have a metamorphosis; they don't have legless larvae or any larvae. ... There are so many aquatic insects in HE that...
David Marjanovic
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Apr 5, 2007 1:53 pm
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... those ... bdelloid ... between ... Maybe the adult is simply an aquatic, wingless dragonfly, and they can mate in the conventional fashion occasionally....
... don't have ... Right, but could they lose their legs after one molt? Figuring out sandipede development is going to be puzzling. ... But none are...
... No idea. ... Yep. ... You mean, none of those clades happens to be called an order, without there being any good reason for (or against) that. =8-) I was...
David Marjanovic
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Apr 5, 2007 4:52 pm
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... 1.html neat!! ... if I may offer a thought -- whether this is for the entire clade, or just for one branch of the flatfish-looking clade....why copy the ...
... I'd bet that dispersal is a large part of that. maybe winged adults are a rarity, and only arise when the lake starts to dry out (or for other reasons),...
... Probably much earlier -- the Morrison Fm is Late Jurassic. That's where all those *Allosaurus* and *Stegosaurus* and *Camarasaurus* and *Diplodocus* and ...
David Marjanovic
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Apr 5, 2007 5:51 pm
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... without there ... animals ... the German ... Of course! There are countless aquatic beetles already (great diving beetles, water scavengers, whirligigs,...
... or ... eye? ... Interesting. But two eyes are better than one, right? Nemo, what's your opinion on this? It would have to be a pretty big eye to do the job...
... clade, ... it doesn't need to do the job of two eyes...it just has to do the job of one eye. look at Bifocal Fish (Four-Eyed Fish, central America)...
