A novel power-amplified jumping behavior in larval beetles (Coleoptera: Laemophloeidae)

• Matthew A. Bertone ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Matthew A. Bertone, Joshua C. Gibson, Adrian A. Smith

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: matt_bertone@ncsu.edu

  ¶‡ MAB and JCG are joint first authors on this work.

  Affiliation Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7985-1913

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• Joshua C. Gibson ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Matthew A. Bertone, Joshua C. Gibson, Adrian A. Smith

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ MAB and JCG are joint first authors on this work.

  Affiliation Department of Entomology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, United States of America

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• Ainsley E. Seago,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Section of Invertebrate Zoology, Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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• Takahiro Yoshida,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Systematic Zoology Laboratory, Graduate School of Science, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Hachioji City, Tokyo, Japan

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• Adrian A. Smith

  Contributed equally to this work with: Matthew A. Bertone, Joshua C. Gibson, Adrian A. Smith

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Research & Collections, North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, Raleigh, NC, United States of America, Biological Sciences, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America

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