Exposing the drives of the insect mandibular apparatus: Examination of muscle fibre composition, contraction properties and innervation patterns in mandible muscles of cockroaches and related carnivorous and xylophagous insect species

• Applicant: Dr. Tom Weihmann
• Subject Area: Animal Physiology and Biochemistry ; Cognitive, Systems and Behavioural Neurobiology ; Nuclear Medicine, Radiotherapy, Radiobiology
• Term: from 2016 to 2022
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 317341888

• Final Report Year: 2023

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Publications

• The cephalic morphology of the American cockroach Periplaneta americana (Blattodea). Arthropod Systematics & Phylogeny, 74(3), 267-297.
  Wipfler, Benjamin; Weissing, Kevin; Klass, Klaus & Weihmann, Tom
  
• The Generalized Feeding Apparatus of Cockroaches: A Model for Biting and Chewing Insects. Zoological Monographs, 203-262. Springer International Publishing.
  Weihmann, Tom & Wipfler, Benjamin
  
• Morphological, functional, and phylogenetic aspects of the head capsule of the cockroachErgaula capucina (Insecta/Blattodea). PeerJ, 10, e12470.
  Wipfler, Benjamin; Triesch, Felix; Evangelista, Dominic & Weihmann, Tom