Sentence examples for cockroach behavior from inspiring English sources

The company has developed new strains of rice, studied cockroach behavior and, famously, built the agile robot Asimo.

"Kockroach" may be fiction, but it is quite likely the only novel this year to list an academic paper on "the effect of parasitoid wasp venom on cockroach grooming behavior" in its acknowledgments.

The exact role of the SupEG in the venom-induced manipulation of the cockroach motor behavior remains, as yet, rather elusive.

We previously introduced cockroaches' competition behavior to improve GAs' exploitation for the parameter estimation of biological systems.

In this study, we further mimick cockroaches' cooperated-based swarm behavior, wherein their competitive behavior and migration are event-induced.

The self-righting behavior of cockroaches is triggered when pressure sensors on the underside of the feet report no pressure.

As a control, we also assessed the behavior of cockroaches after focally injecting procaine into the SupEG.

Wind-sensilla also play an important role in the escape behavior of cockroaches (e.g. [58]) or firebrats [59].

The large size of the long-lived, gregarious cockroach and its reliable, rhythmic behavior makes it a well-suited model system for a cellular and physiological analysis of circadian rhythms.

The venom could thus, in principle, specifically manipulate these SupEG structures, in addition to manipulating SEG activity, to further control the initiation of locomotory behavior in the cockroach prey.

For instance, in Plutella xylostella, exposure to transgenic plants expressing toxins from Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) induced physiological resistance to Bt toxins without discrimination between transgenic and non-transgenic plants [ 6], whereas exposure to toxic baits altered the behavior of German cockroaches, but not their physiological resistance [ 7].