Edible Aquatic Insects: Diversities, Nutrition, and Safety [PDF]
Foods, 2021 Edible insects have great potential to be human food; among them, aquatic insects have unique characteristics and deserve special attention. Before consuming these insects, the nutrition and food safety should always be considered.
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Ecology and Biology of Aquatic Insects [PDF]
Insects, 2021 The advancement of our knowledge on the ecology and biology of aquatic insects is essential to improving our understanding of their roles in water quality, disease ecology, as indicators of climate change, biodiversity, as well as community structure and
Scott M. Starr, John R. Wallace
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Fatty Acid Composition Differs Between Emergent Aquatic and Terrestrial Insects—A Detailed Single System Approach [PDF]
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2022 Emergent insects represent a key vector through which aquatic nutrients are transferred to adjacent terrestrial food webs. Aquatic fluxes of polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA) from emergent insects are particularly important subsidies for terrestrial ...
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The Potential of Acoustic Monitoring of Aquatic Insects for Freshwater Assessment [PDF]
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological SciencesInternational audienceAquatic insects are a major indicator used to assess ecological condition in freshwater environments. However, current methods to collect and identify aquatic insects require advanced taxonomic expertise and rely on invasive ...
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Study on the Fauna of Aquatic Insects in Northwestern Iran [PDF]
Journal of Arthropod-Borne Diseases, 2019 Background: Aquatic insects include groups of arthropods which at least one step of their life happens in water. Some of these insects play an important role in the transmission of various diseases to human and animals.
Madineh Abbasi +3 more
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Aquatic Insects Are Dramatically Underrepresented in Genomic Research [PDF]
Insects, 2020 Aquatic insects comprise 10% of all insect diversity, can be found on every continent except Antarctica, and are key components of freshwater ecosystems. However, aquatic insect genome biology lags dramatically behind that of terrestrial insects.
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Effect of seasonality on the population density of wetland aquatic insects: A case study of the Hawr Al Azim and Shadegan wetlands, Iran [PDF]
Veterinary World, 2019 Aim: Wetlands are extremely suitable ecosystems to assess the effect of climate change on the density of aquatic insects. This study aimed to assess the effect of seasonality on populations of aquatic insects in the Hawr Al Azim and Shadegan wetlands.
Hassan Nasirian, Aref Salehzadeh
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Land Use Alters Cross-Ecosystem Transfer of High Value Fatty Acids by Aquatic Insects
Environmental Sciences EuropeBackground Many aquatic insects emerge as adults from water bodies to complete parts of their life cycle in terrestrial ecosystems and are potential prey for riparian predators.
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Aquatic Insects and their Potential to Contribute to the Diet of the Globally Expanding Human Population [PDF]
Insects, 2017 Of the 30 extant orders of true insect, 12 are considered to be aquatic, or semiaquatic, in either some or all of their life stages. Out of these, six orders contain species engaged in entomophagy, but very few are being harvested effectively, leading to
D. Dudley Williams, Siân S. Williams
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Insects, 2022 Fifty individuals of Limnephilus from the Qinghai Province, China, were examined, and their COI barcode sequences were extracted and analyzed. Forty individuals of Limnephilus from the Insect Collection of Nanjing Agricultural University (ICNAU), China ...
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