Jurnal Manajemen Hutan Tropika, 2021 Clear cutting is the main source of timber production of plantation forest management in Indonesia, but this activity disrupts the lives of ground ants.
Ahmad Budiaman +3 more
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Biocontrol of leucoagaricus gongylophorus of leaf-cutting ants with the mycoparasitic agent trichoderma koningiopsis [PDF]
, 2016 Leaf-cutting ants are one of the main agricultural and agroforestry pests in the Neotropic region. The essential food source of these ants is Leucoagaricus gongylophorus.
Bich, Gustavo Angel +3 more
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Beneficial effects of a multifunctional strain of Purpureocillium lilacinum in strawberry plants
Studies in FungiThe extensive use of agrochemicals poses significant risks to both environmental and human health. The fungus Purpureocillium lilacinum (Ascomycetes: Ophiocordycipitaceae), through its application, represents a promising biotechnological tool to reduce ...
Patricia J. Folgarait +2 more
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Morphophysiological differences between the metapleural glands of fungus-growing and non-fungus-growing ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2012 The metapleural gland is an organ exclusive to ants. Its main role is to produce secretions that inhibit the proliferation of different types of pathogens.
Alexsandro Santana Vieira +2 more
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Fungi as mutualistic partners in ant-plant interactions
Frontiers in Fungal Biology, 2023 Associations between fungi and ants living in mutualistic relationship with plants (“plant-ants”) have been known for a long time. However, only in recent years has the mutualistic nature, frequency, and geographical extent of associations between ...
Veronika E. Mayer +5 more
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Psüühikahäirega inimene ühiskonnas [PDF]
, 2004 Viimastel aastakümnetel on psüühikahäiretega inimeste käsitlus muutunud: vähenenud on sundravi ja statsionaarse ravi osakaal, suuremat osa haigeid ravitakse ambulatoorselt.
Anderson, Ants
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The use of ideas of Information Theory for studying "language" and intelligence in ants
, 2009 In this review we integrate results of long term experimental study on ant "language" and intelligence which were fully based on fundamental ideas of Information Theory, such as the Shannon entropy, the Kolmogorov complexity, and the Shannon's equation ...
Boris Ryabko +17 more
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Value of MRI Outcomes for Preventive and Early‐Stage Trials in Spinocerebellar Ataxias 1 and 3
Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Objective To examine the value of MRI outcomes as endpoints for preventive and early‐stage trials of two polyglutamine spinocerebellar ataxias (SCAs). Methods A cohort of 100 participants (23 SCA1, 63 SCA3, median Scale for the Assessment and Rating of Ataxia (SARA) score = 5, 42% preataxic, and 14 gene‐negative controls) was scanned at 3T up ...
Thiago J. R. Rezende +26 more
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Heat-induced symmetry breaking in ant (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) escape behavior. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2017 The collective egress of social insects is important in dangerous situations such as natural disasters or enemy attacks. Some studies have described the phenomenon of symmetry breaking in ants, with two exits induced by a repellent.
Yuan-Kai Chung, Chung-Chi Lin
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Trade-off in plant-ant interactions: seasonal variations [PDF]
Brazilian Journal of Biology, 2020 This work evaluated the effect of seasonality on ant-plant interaction in a Seasonally Dry Tropical Forests, using as an ecological model the species Ipomoea carnea subs. fistulosa (Convolvulaceae).
J. Martins +4 more
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