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Tiny creatures : the world of microbes
Explores all the different microbes that inhabit the Earth and examines the varied jobs they do.
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Mother strawberry poison frogs might supplement nutritive eggs with secretory provisioning
Many animal lineages produce and provision offspring with nutritive material such as milk, lipid-enriched skin, or mucus. Some frogs deposit offspring into small pools of water known as phytotelmata, and a subset of those species also provision offspring with eggs. Often when parental frogs enter the water, oophagous tadpoles swim erratically, vibrate, nip, and even suck on adult skin, which has traditionally been interpreted as begging and tactile stimulus for oviposition. However, these behaviors are also consistent with the hypothesis that such mouth-to-skin contact serves the function of acquiring secretory provisioning from parents, as in the mucophagous fry of some fishes. Here we present images obtained with a macro lens at 6 K resolution of mother-offspring interactions in the strawberry poison frog, Oophaga pumilio, that suggest that tadpoles not only poke or nip maternal skin during feeding visits, but rather forcefully suck on it. We compare these observations to those from numerous lower resolution videos of previous experiments with O. pumilio, and place the findings in the context of a literature review of both anecdotal evidence of mother-tadpole interactions across phytotelm-breeding anurans and secretory provisioning across the animal kingdom. We propose that (1) skin sucking behavior may involve the transfer of nutritive mucous secretions or other defensive, immunological, hormonal, or microbial factors from mother frogs to tadpoles and that (2) such secretions may serve to supplement egg provisioning in this and other frogs with oophagous and phytotelm-dwelling larvae.
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Plants and microorganisms
This volumes introduces concepts and principles about plants and microorganisms.
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Plants and microorganisms
What could be more fascinating than the story of life? This new reference series reviews the fundamental life-science concepts and examines all aspects of modern thinking about biology, ecology, evolution, genetics, microbiology, cell biology, and life fo
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Do not lick this book
Min is a microbe. She is small. Very small. In fact, so small that you'd need to look through a microscope to see her. Or you can simply open this book and take Min on an adventure to amazing places she's never seen before-- like the icy glaciers of your tooth or the twisted, tangled jungle of your shirt.
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Microbes : discover an unseen world with 25 projects
An introduction to microorganisms with instructions for twenty-five projects.
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Gut bugs, dust mites, and other microorganisms you can't live without
\"Describes the science behind microorganisms that people couldn't live without,\"--Provided by publisher.
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Inside animals
\"Describes the fascinating animal details that are too small for the unaided eye to see, and how these microscopic systems work to keep the animal alive and healthy\"--Provided by publisher.
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I'm trying to love germs
Entertaining, eye-opening and educational, this deep dive into the microscopic world of germs discusses the microbes in and on our bodies that help us survive, the ones that don't and everything in between.
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