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    "Science Advances" millipedes use sucking pump to ingest liquid food

    • Last Update: 2022-03-02
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    They are often found on fungi, feeding on the fungus through the sucking pump in its tiny pointed head


    Image Credit: Leif Moritz

    Whether it's a nectar-sucking butterfly or a blood-sucking mosquito, it's long been known that many insects and other arthropods ingest liquid food


    Like insects, crustaceans, and arachnids, millipedes belong to an extremely diverse group of arthropods


    Using high-resolution tomography, histological methods and electron microscopy, the researchers found that millipedes have a suction pump that is strikingly similar to that of insects


    Thus, the team was able to show that functional dietary tools have independently evolved several times across all major subgroups of arthropods


    The study also provides insights into a better understanding of the origins of species diversity


    The study also provides insights into a better understanding of the origins of species diversity


    A previously feeding unknown mode in millipedes and the convergence of fluid feeding across arthropods


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