The Skeletomuscular System of the Mesosoma of Formica rufa Workers (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)
The Skeletomuscular System of the Mesosoma of Formica rufa Workers (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)
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10.1093/isd/ixac002
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发表时间：
2022-03-01
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3.4
通讯作者：
Economo, Evan P.
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作者：
Aibekova, Lazzat;Boudinot, Brendon E.;Economo, Evan P.
中间体是蚂蚁的动力核心，包含头部、腿部和后躯体运动的关键结构和肌肉元素。据推测，适应地面运动和飞行的损失导致了大量的重组，在工蚁的中间体，它很可能是蚂蚁中间体已经经历了功能的修改，蚂蚁多样化到不同的生态和行为的小生境。尽管这一重要性，解剖的蚂蚁间体的研究仍然是稀缺的，并有有限的了解重要的内部结构的变化在整个蚂蚁生殖。成像技术的最新进展使数字化解剖小昆虫成为可能，有效地详细记录解剖结构，并以3D方式可视化这些数据。在这里，我们记录的mesosomal skeletomuscular系统的工人的红木蚂蚁，Formica rufa Linnaeus，1761年，并使用它来建立一个三维图谱的mesosomal解剖，将作为参考工作，为进一步的研究。我们讨论和说明的骨骼肌组件的配置和功能的肌肉与骨骼元素的相互作用。这种“广义”蚂蚁的解剖学评价提供了一个模板，为今后的研究中体辐射的蚁科，与合成结构，功能和转型信息的最终目标，以了解蚂蚁的一个重要的身体区域的进化。
The mesosoma is the power core of the ant, containing critical structural and muscular elements for the movement of the head, legs, and metasoma. It has been hypothesized that adaptation to ground locomotion and the loss of flight led to the substantial rearrangements in the mesosoma in worker ants and that it is likely the ant mesosoma has undergone functional modifications as ants diversified into different ecological and behavioral niches. Despite this importance, studies on the anatomy of the ant mesosoma are still scarce, and there is limited understanding of important variation of internal structures across the ant phylogeny. Recent advances in imaging techniques have made it possible to digitally dissect small insects, to document the anatomy efficiently and in detail, and to visualize these data in 3D. Here we document the mesosomal skeletomuscular system of workers of the red wood ant, Formica rufa Linnaeus, 1761, and use it to establish a 3D atlas of mesosomal anatomy that will serve as reference work for further studies. We discuss and illustrate the configuration of the skeletomuscular components and the function of the muscles in interaction with the skeletal elements. This anatomical evaluation of a 'generalized' ant provides a template for future studies of the mesosoma across the radiation of Formicidae, with the ultimate objective of synthesizing structural, functional, and transformational information to understand the evolution of a crucial body region of ants.