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Occurrence and evolution of cannibal behaviour in extant snakes

Biological Reviews, Volume 101, Issue 2, Page 644-664, April 2026.
ABSTRACT Extant snakes (Serpentes) are a highly diverse group of squamate reptiles, which have independently evolved key morphological adaptations to consume a large variety of vertebrate and invertebrate prey. While these predator–prey interactions have been widely addressed by several studies, little is known regarding the occurrence of cannibal ...
Bruna B. Falcão, Vinícius A. São Pedro, Omar M. Entiauspe‐Neto   +2 more
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Non-Invasive Genotyping of Honey Bee Queens Apis mellifera L.: Transition of the DraI mtDNA COI-COII Test to In Silico

Insects, 2020
The honey bee Apis mellifera L. colony is headed by a single and indispensable queen, whose duty it is to ensure brood production and provide pheromonal stability within the colony. This study presents a non-invasive method that allows the identification
Shayne Madella, Kyle Grubbs, Mohamed Alburaki   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Social Structure and Interactions Differentially Shape Aerotolerant and Anaerobic Gut Microbiomes in a Cooperative Breeding Species

Molecular Ecology, Volume 35, Issue 7, April 2026.
ABSTRACT Social transmission of microbes has profound impacts on disease epidemiology and host health. However, how social factors influence gut microbiome (GM) transmission in wild populations is not well understood. Here, we use a wild population of the Seychelles warbler, a facultative cooperatively breeding passerine, to determine whether ...
Chuen Zhang Lee, Sarah F. Worsley, Terry Burke, Jan Komdeur, Falk Hildebrand, Hannah L. Dugdale, David S. Richardson   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Odorant binding proteins of the red imported fire ant, Solenopsis invicta: an example of the problems facing the analysis of widely divergent proteins. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2011
We describe the odorant binding proteins (OBPs) of the red imported fire ant, Solenopsis invicta, obtained from analyses of an EST library and separate 454 sequencing runs of two normalized cDNA libraries.
Dietrich Gotzek, Hugh M Robertson, Yannick Wurm, DeWayne Shoemaker   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Avaliação dos padrões de diversidade genética nas populações de abelha melífera do território interior Português: a rusticidade posta à prova [PDF]

, 2010
A Península Ibérica, pela sua proximidade com o Norte de África, explica a presença de linhagem africana na Europa. A abelha que habita nesta região é a Apis mellifera iberiensis Engel 1999. A Península Ibérica, representa um dos redutos das populações
Guedes, Helena
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Genetic Basis of Cuticular Hydrocarbon Variation in the Desert Ant Cataglyphis niger

Ecology and Evolution, Volume 16, Issue 3, March 2026.
Cuticular hydrocarbons (CHCs) are a ubiquitous component of ant cuticles that are used for a wide range of chemical signaling functions, especially recognition. Here we tested for a genetic basis of CHC variation in the desert ant Cataglyphis niger. We applied a genomic mapping approach to discover associations between CHCs and 20 quantitative trait ...
Shani Inbar, Besan Saied, Pnina Cohen, Zeev Frenkel, Yoann Pellen, Abraham B. Korol, Eyal Privman   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Revisiting the Definition and Recognition of Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities for Biodiversity Conservation

Ecology and Evolution, Volume 16, Issue 2, February 2026.
This paper presents how common definitional criteria for Indigenous Peoples – such as self‐identification and cultural distinctiveness – are often used selectively and fall short of recognising their collective land rights. Drawing on case studies, our paper argues that legal recognition of Indigenous land rights is essential for effective biodiversity
Ronju Ahammad, Kamaljit Sangha, Jay Evans, Oscar Metcalfe   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Silencing of two insulin receptor genes disrupts nymph-adult transition of alate brown citrus aphid [PDF]

, 2017
Insulin receptors play key roles in growth, development, and polymorphism in insects. Here, we report two insulin receptor genes (AcInR1 and AcInR2) from the brown citrus aphid, Aphis (Toxoptera) citricidus.
Ding, Bi-Yue, Niu, Jin-Zhi, Shang, Feng, Smagghe, Guy, Wang, Jin-Jun, Xiong, Ying, Yang, Qun, Zhang, Qiang   +7 more
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The Fettered and the Flea: A New Poem by Edmund Waller☆

Renaissance Studies, Volume 40, Issue 1, Page 41-54, February 2026.
Abstract This contribution explores for the first time a 22‐line poem in a British Library manuscript, ‘To a young lady that kept a flea chay’nd in a box’, which can be convincingly ascribed to Edmund Waller. Its most famous relative is Donne’s ‘The Flea’, but its ancestry differs.
Stuart Gillespie
wiley   +1 more source

Characterization of Native Honey Bee Subspecies in Republic of Benin Using Morphometric and Genetic Tools

Journal of Apicultural Science, 2018
Morphometric characteristics combined with genetic markers are powerful tools used for determining honey bee subspecies. Bees samples collected from 94 established apiaries distributed throughout all of the Republic of Benin were morphometricaly ...
Amakpe Felicien, De Smet Lina, Brunain Marleen, Jacobs Frans J., Sinsin Brice, de Graaf Dirk C.   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source