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Diversity and Plasticity in Mosquito Feeding Patterns: A Meta‐Analysis of ‘Universal’ DNA Diet Studies

open access: yesGlobal Ecology and Biogeography, Volume 34, Issue 6, June 2025.
ABSTRACT Aim Although mosquitoes can have innate preferences for particular blood‐meal hosts, their realised feeding patterns on different host species can be modified under climate and land use change with implications for disease spread. Therefore, it is important to understand the niche breadth of vectors and the extent to which shifts in feeding ...
Meshach Lee   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Cannibals and Colonialism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
On 23 December 1826 on the New South Wales frontier, a white shepherd named Henry Preston went to his employer, John Jamieson, to conect his weekly rations. Neither Preston nor his dog returned home, and another shepherd raised the alarm.
Biber, K
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Le passage de la frontière

open access: yesAteliers d'Anthropologie, 2012
For three ethnic groups that practiced capture war (Aztecs, Iroquois and Tupinamba), the ritual that started with capture and continued beyond the execution served to assimilate the prisoner with his conqueror, the Other with the Self.
Claude François Baudez
doaj   +1 more source

Breaking the Mold: Brazil's Foreign Policy Insights

open access: yesLatin American Policy, Volume 16, Issue 2, June 2025.
ABSTRACT Brazilian foreign policy studies have traditionally focused on the institutional role of Itamaraty, often overlooking the influence of academia in shaping diplomatic debates. While the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has historically led policy formulation, academic actors have contributed with intellectual frameworks that shape diplomatic ...
Diego S. Crescentino
wiley   +1 more source

Funeral Meal and Anthropophagy in Gumelniţa Chalcolithic Civilization in the North-western Black Sea area [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
The Gumelnitsa chalcolithic civilization appeared at the beginning of V millennium BC in border of Black Sea between the Danube and the Dniepr, is known for the wealth of its domestic religious figurines.
Dambricourt Malassé, Anne   +3 more
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You Eat What You Are: Identity Via Cannibalistic Food Ethics In Ying Chen's Le Mangeur [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Shanghai-born Québécoise Ying Chen focuses her super-natural 2006 novel, Le Mangeur, on the ethics of eating. Chens characters, half human and half fish hybrids, negotiate a personal but transgressive ethics of eating as a way of understanding who they ...
Robert, JL
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Cannibalism and Other Transgressions of the Human in The Road

open access: yesEuropean Journal of American Studies, 2017
The concept of cannibalism is essential for the dark vision laid out by Cormac McCarthy in his novel The Road (2006). This article sketches a brief history of the idea of anthropophagy in the Western intellectual tradition.
Andrew Estes
doaj   +1 more source

Prevalence of culicine salivary antibodies in non‐human primates living in national parks in Thailand

open access: yesMedical and Veterinary Entomology, Volume 39, Issue 2, Page 278-290, June 2025.
Anti‐mosquito salivary gland antibodies were detected in the sera of macaques (Macaca arctoides, M. leonina and M. fascicularis) from Kaeng Krachan, Khao Yai and Mu Ko Ranong National Parks, respectively. For M. leonina and M. fascicularis, the highest titres were against Ae. aegypti while Ae. albopictus antibody titres were observed in M.
Ariza Minelle A. Aguila   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Genomic Analysis Reveals a New Cryptic Taxon Within the Anopheles gambiae Complex With a Distinct Insecticide Resistance Profile in the Coast of East Africa

open access: yesMolecular Ecology, Volume 34, Issue 10, May 2025.
ABSTRACT Anopheles mosquitoes are major malaria vectors, encompassing several species complexes with diverse life histories, transmission risks and insecticide resistance profiles that challenge malaria control efforts. This study investigated the genetic structure and insecticide resistance profiles of Anopheles gambiae complex mosquitoes in Tanzania.
Sophia H. Mwinyi   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Nutritional Aspects of Cannibalism in Crustacean Aquaculture: With Emphasis on Cultured Tropical Spiny Lobsters

open access: yesReviews in Aquaculture, Volume 17, Issue 2, March 2025.
ABSTRACT Cannibalism in high‐value crustacean species, such as mud crab, clawed lobster, and spiny lobster, is a major impediment to commercial aquaculture due to its significant impact on survival and, hence, production. Knowledge of the nutrition acquired from consuming conspecifics may inform whether nutrient limitation is a primary reason for ...
Mohamed B. Codabaccus   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

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