Smart Skin Patterns Protect Springtails

Smart Skin Patterns Protect Springtails

Springtails, arthropods who live in soil, in decaying material, and on plants, have adapted to demanding conditions by evolving extremely effective and robust anti-adhesive skin patterns. However, details of these unique properties and their structural basis are still unknown. Here we demonstrate that collembolan skin can resist wetting by many organic liquids and at elevated pressures. We show...

Foraging patterns of soil springtails are impacted by food resources

HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access archive for the deposit and dissemination of scientific research documents, whether they are published or not. The documents may come from teaching and research institutions in France or abroad, or from public or private research centers. L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents scientifiques de niveau...

Disruptive Technologies - UV Protect - Smart Watch Application

Health care industry is one of the most interesting domains where we can bring innovative and smart technologies that can have a big positive impact on our health. These days people are starting to be more and more concerned about their health and they are interested in having small wearable devices that allow them to be able to get real time data through different sensors regarding the environ...

Brain organization in Collembola (springtails).

Arthropoda is comprised of four major taxa: Hexapoda, Crustacea, Myriapoda and Chelicerata. Although this classification is widely accepted, there is still some debate about the internal relationships of these groups. In particular, the phylogenetic position of Collembola remains enigmatic. Some molecular studies place Collembola into a close relationship to Protura and Diplura within the monop...

Protect the skin you are in.