Ancient Ephemeroptera-Collembola symbiosis fossilized in amber predicts contemporary phoretic associations. by David Penney, Andrew McNeil, David I Green, Robert S Bradley, James E Jepson, Philip J Withers, Richard F Preziosi

“…This fossil predicts the occurrence of similar behaviour in living springtails and helps explain the global distribution of Collembola today.…”
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Transgenerational effects of food availability on age at maturity and reproductive output in an asexual collembolan species. by Hafer, N, Ebil, S, Uller, T, Pike, N

“…We conducted a fully factorial experiment manipulating food availability across three generations in the collembolan Folsomia candida, a springtail species that inhabits soil and leaf litter environments which vary in resource availability. …”

Japan-China Collaborative research of terrestrial biology at Great Wall Station, King George Island in 1989/90 by Yoshikuni Ohyama, Kimio Shimada

“…An oribatid mite, a springtail and a podonomine midge were examined for the study on the cold-hardiness with respect to the adaptation to the cold climate in the Antarctic summer.…”
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Antibiotic treatment leads to the elimination of <it>Wolbachia </it>endosymbionts and sterility in the diplodiploid collembolan <it>Folsomia candida</it> by Kingcombe Rachel, Pike Nathan

“…Using two antibiotics, tetracycline and rifampicin, we attempted to eliminate <it>Wolbachia </it>from the diplodiploid host <it>Folsomia candida</it>, a species of springtail which is a widely used study organism.</p> <p>Results</p> <p>Molecular assays confirmed that elimination of <it>Wolbachia </it>was successfully achieved through continuous exposure of populations (over two generations and several weeks) to rifampicin administered as 2.7% dry weight of their yeast food source. …”
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Redescription of Chribellphorura allanae (Christiansen &amp;amp; Bellinger, 1980) (Collembola, Onychiuridae), with comments on the systematic position of the genus by Grzegorz Paśnik, Wanda Maria Weiner

“…Chribellphorura allanae (Christiansen &amp;amp; Bellinger, 1980), a poorly known Nearctic springtail, is redescribed and important morphological characters are illustrated (Figs 1–7). …”
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A new species of Seira (Collembola: Entomobryidae: Seirini) from Northern Brazil, with the addition of new chaetotaxic characters by Nikolas Gioia Cipola, José Wellington de Morais, Bruno Cavalcante Bellini

“…Seira caerucinerea sp. nov. , a new species of springtail from the Cerrado domain, state of Tocantins, Brazil, is described and illustrated. …”
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Insecta and Collembola as bioindicators of ecological restoration in the Ombrophilous Dense Forest in Southern Brazil by Taise Cristina Plattau Arenhardt, Marcelo Diniz Vitorino, Sebastião Venâncio Martins

“…Families Ptiliidae, Staphylinidae, and Leiodidae, species Pheidole cf. sarcina (Formicidae) and Mastigoceras sp. 1 and Szeptyckitheca sp. 1 (Collembola) were indicators of well-conserved areas, whereas families Cicadellidae and Delphacidae, Formicidae species Wasmannia auropunctata (Roger, 1863) and Camponotus melanoticus Emery, 1894 were indicators of degraded areas. From the springtail community, species richness is a metric that can be used as a bioindicator. …”
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A new species of Campylothorax (Collembola: Paronellidae: Paronellinae) from Northern Brazil by Inaura P. da Silva Santos, Nikolas G. Cipola, José W. de Morais, Bruno C. Bellini

“…ABSTRACT Campylothorax viruaensis sp. nov., a new species of paronellid springtail from the Amazon Rainforest, state of Roraima, Brazil, is herein described and illustrated. …”
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On predation in Epicriidae (Gamasida, Anactinotrichida) and fine- structural details of their forelegs by Gerd Alberti

“…Upon contact with a small isotomid springtail, the forelegs rapidly touch the prey with the tips of the elongated, clubbed setae. …”
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The occurrence of Pachytullbergia scabra (Collembola: Pachytullbergiidae) on Pseudocyphellaria granulata (lichenized Ascomycota) La presencia de Pachytullbergia scabra (Collembola:... by María Inés Messuti, Marcelo Kun

“…The springtail species Pachytullbergia scabra Bonet (Pachytullbergiidae), previously recorded in austral America inhabiting the surfaces of Nothofagus dombeyi (Mirb.) …”
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Lea protein expression during cold-induced dehydration in the Arctic collembola Megaphorura arctica by Popović Ž.D., Purać Jelena, Kojić Danijela, Pamer Elvira L., Worland M.R., Blagojević D.P., Grubor-Lajšić Gordana

“…The Arctic springtail Megaphorura arctica (Tullberg, 1876) employs a strategy known as cryoprotective dehydration to survive winter temperatures as low as -25°C. …”
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Complete mitochondrial genome of Proisotoma minuta (Collembola: Proisotominae) by Yue Tian, Xiulian Miao, Shilin Song, Zhengmin Zhang, Shiran Hu, Deli Wei, Meng Wang

“…The springtail Proisotoma minuta is a cosmopolitan species that can be found in many different habitats, especially in soil ecosystems. …”
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Ecotoxicological studies of selected agrochemicals on the moulting stages of Cyphoderus javanus under laboratory conditions by Bhavya LR, M.G. Sanal Kumar

“…The present study was designed to evaluate the effects of selected agrochemicals such as cyfluthrin (insecticide), fytran (fungicide) and oxadiargyl (herbicide) on the moulting stages of soil springtail Cyphoderus javnaus. Laboratory analysis results indicated that the agrochemical treated organisms showed prolonged moulting intervals and need more days than normal to become a complete adult having sexual maturity. …”
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Testing the effect of metabolic rate on DNA variability at the intra-specific level. by Angela McGaughran, Barbara R Holland

“…We tested the metabolic rate hypothesis (whereby rates of mtDNA evolution are postulated to be mediated primarily by mutagenic by-products of respiration) by examining whether mass-specific metabolic rate was correlated with root-to-tip distance on a set of mtDNA trees for the springtail Cryptopygus antarcticus travei from sub-Antarctic Marion Island.Using Bayesian analyses and a novel application of the comparative phylogenetic method, we did not find significant evidence that contemporary metabolic rates directly correlate with mutation rate (i.e., root-to-tip distance) once the underlying phylogeny is taken into account. …”
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Acceptance of two native myrmecophilous species, Platyarthrus hoffmannseggii (Isopoda: Oniscidea) and Cyphoderus albinus (Collembola: Cyphoderidae) by the introduced invasive garde... by Wouter DEKONINCK, Koen LOCK, Frans JANSSENS

“…The myrmecophilous isopod Platyarthrus hoffmannseggii Brandt, 1833 and the myrmecophilous springtail Cyphoderus albinus Nicolet, 1842 are commonly found in nests of a wide range of ant species in Belgium. …”
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Soil invertebrates of coniferous forests along a gradient of air pollution (Komi Republic) by Alla Kolesnikova, Tatyana Konakova, Anastasia Taskaeva, Alexey Kudrin

“…Information on the number of individuals of springtail species, nematodes genera and macrofauna taxa is given. …”
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Bioinspired nanofilament coatings for scale reduction on steel by Siad Dahir Ali, Mette Heidemann Rasmussen, Jacopo Catalano, Christian Husum Frederiksen, Tobias Weidner

“…Inspired by the natural hydrophobicity of springtail (Collembola) skin, which employs micro- and nanostructures to repel water, we investigate the application of silicone nanofilaments (SNFs) as a coating on steel surfaces to mitigate scaling. …”
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An updated checklist of Collembola in Taiwan, with DNA barcoding of Papirioides jacobsoni Folsom, 1924 (Symphypleona, Dicyrtomidae) by Hsin-Ju Cheng, Frans Janssens, Chih-Han Chang

“…We also characterised morphological and genetic variations in the globular springtail species Papirioides jacobsoni Folsom, 1924 using DNA barcodes and highlighted potential research directions.…”
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Research progress in superoleophobic surface by XUE Ruiying, MENG Yunyun, LIU Jun

“…However, due to the low surface tension of organic liquids, the construction of superoleophobic surfaces was relatively difficult. Inspired by springtail, re-entrant structure has become a breakthrough to solve this problem.Together with surface chemical composition modification and surface roughness, it has been introduced into the design and manufacturing system of superoleophobic surface. …”
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A simple graphical method for displaying structured population dynamics and STdiag, its implementation in an R package by Vincent Le Bourlot, François Mallard, David Claessen, Thomas Tully

“…Using the example of springtail populations maintained in the laboratory and a woodlouse population studied in the field, we explain why this type of representation can be used to analyse the population dynamics of soil organisms and why it should be more widely used in demography. …”
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