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Frederik Püffel
Researcher at Imperial College London
Publications - 5
Citations - 28
Frederik Püffel is an academic researcher from Imperial College London. The author has contributed to research in topics: Biology & Bite force quotient. The author has co-authored 1 publications.
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Morphological determinants of bite force capacity in insects: a biomechanical analysis of polymorphic leaf-cutter ants.
Frederik Püffel,Anaya Pouget,Xinyue Liu,Marcus Zuber,Thomas van de Kamp,Flavio Roces,David Labonte +6 more
TL;DR: The extraordinary success of social insects is partially based on division of labour, i.e. individuals exclusively or preferentially perform specific tasks as discussed by the authors, and task preference may correlate with morph morphology.
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Strong positive allometry of bite force in leaf-cutter ants increases the range of cuttable plant tissues
TL;DR: It is demonstrated that bite forces in leaf-cutter ants need to be exceptionally large compared to body mass to enable them to cut leaves; and that the positive allometry enables colonies to forage on a wider range of plant species without the need for extreme investment into larger workers.
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A biomechanical model for the relation between bite force and mandibular opening angle in arthropods
TL;DR: A comprehensive biomechanical model is derived that characterises the relationship between bite force and mandibular opening angle from first principles and suggests a hierarchy of model simplifications and assess the performance of ‘minimum’ models which predict bite force from a reduced set of easily accessible parameters.
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Biomechanics of cutting: sharpness, wear sensitivity, and the scaling of cutting forces in leaf-cutter ant mandibles
TL;DR: In this paper , the authors measured the forces required to cut thin polymer sheets with mandibles from leaf-cutter ant workers which vary by more than one order of magnitude in body mass.
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Developmental biomechanics and age polyethism in leaf-cutter ants
TL;DR: In this paper , the authors studied the biomechanical development of the bite apparatus in Atta vollenweideri leaf-cutter ants and found that fully-matured foragers generate peak in-vivo bite forces of around 100 mN, more than one order of magnitude in excess of those measured for freshly-eclosed callows of the same size.