When Cockroaches Replace Ants in Trophobiosis: A New Major Life-Trait Pattern of Hemiptera Planthoppers Behaviour Disclosed When Synthesizing Photographic Data

The mutualistic interspecific relationships of trophobiosis between trophobiont planthoppers (Hemiptera, Fulgoromorpha) providing food to the host called xenobiont, are reviewed.The degree of interspecific relationships between these symbionts varies from occasional or short time duration (a few hours to a few days) to longer ones, with trophobiont

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ULG-SLAM: A Novel Unsupervised Learning and Geometric Feature-Based Visual SLAM Algorithm for Robot Localizability Estimation

Indoor localization has long been a challenging task due to the complexity and dynamism of indoor environments.This paper proposes ULG-SLAM, a novel unsupervised learning and geometric-based visual SLAM algorithm for robot localizability estimation to improve the accuracy and robustness of visual SLAM.Firstly, a dynamic feature filtering based on u

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Can contrasting environmental conditions of mangroves induce morphological variability in Aratus pisonii (Crustacea: Brachyura: Sesarmidae)?

Aratus pisonii is one of the most common crab species in Neotropical mangroves.It shows great plasticity in its life history traits, which makes it an interesting subject for comparative studies.This study evaluated the morphometric variability in five populations of A.pisonii inhabiting mangroves with click here different degrees of structural dev

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