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Traditional knowledge regarding entomophagy in San Martín, Peruvian Amazon

open access: yesPeruvian Journal of Agronomy, 2021
The consumption of insects is a widespread practice among indigenous or native peoples of the Amazon. To assess the knowledge of the diversity of resources for entomophagy from the perspective of these peoples, testimonies or references about knowledge ...
A. Cerna   +10 more
doaj   +1 more source

The influence of leaf characteristics on epiphyllic cover : a test of hypotheses with artificial leaves [PDF]

open access: yes, 1995
Studies of epiphyll ecology have been hindered by the biochemical and morphological variability of the leaf substrate. The use of artificial (plastic ribbon tape) leaves solved that problem in a study done at the Braulio Carrillo National Park, Costa ...
Blanco, Mario A., Monge-Najera, Julian
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Insect Lipids as Novel Source for Future Applications: Chemical Composition and Industry Applications—A Comprehensive Review

open access: yesFood Science &Nutrition, Volume 13, Issue 7, July 2025.
Fat body (FB) acts as a major metabolic center important for the regulation of a variety of physiological processes such as embryogenesis, reproduction, flight, overwintering, protection, and communication. Lipid amounts and fatty acid (FA) composition vary with species, stage of life, and their diet.
Shahida Anusha Siddiqui   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Association between Pseudonocardia symbionts and Atta leaf-cutting ants suggested by improved isolation methods [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Fungus-growing ants associate with multiple symbiotic microbes, including Actinobacteria for production of antibiotics.The best studied of these bacteria are within the genus Pseudonocardia, which in most fungus-growing ants are conspicuouslyvisible on ...
Adrián Pinto-Tomás   +5 more
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Phylogenomic approach to integrative taxonomy resolves a century‐old taxonomic puzzle and the evolutionary history of the Acromyrmex octospinosus species complex

open access: yesSystematic Entomology, Volume 50, Issue 3, Page 469-494, July 2025.
A comprehensive, integrative study approach combining morphology, population genetics, phylogenetics and biogeography revealed that the Acromyrmex octospinosus species complex consists of two species: A. octospinosus and its social parasite A. insinuator.
Daniela Mera‐Rodríguez   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Forager size of the leaf-cutting ant Atta sexdens (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in a mature eucalyptus forest in Brazil

open access: yesRevista de Biología Tropical, 2000
We determined the size characteristics of foragers of the leaf-cutting ant Atta sexdens in a mature eucalyptus forest in Campos dos Goytacazes, Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil, at daytime (7: 30 to 10: 00 hr) and nighttime (19: 00 to 23: 00 hr).
Athayde Tonhasca   +1 more
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The Evolutionary Innovation of Nutritional Symbioses in Leaf-Cutter Ants

open access: yesInsects, 2012
Fungus-growing ants gain access to nutrients stored in plant biomass through their association with a mutualistic fungus they grow for food. This 50 million-year-old obligate mutualism likely facilitated some of these species becoming dominant ...
Frank O. Aylward   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Hymenoptera Genome Database [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
The Hymenoptera Genome Database (HGD) is an informatics resource supporting genomics of hymenopteran insect species. This relational database implements open-source software and components providing access to curated data contributed by an extensive ...
Anna K. Bennett   +6 more
core   +2 more sources

Capacidad antagónica de trichoderma spp en el biocontrol del hongo leucoagaricus gongylophorus de la hormiga arriera (atta cephalotes l.) en el cultivo de palma aceitera [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
La investigación se realizó en el laboratorio del CIPAL que pertenece ANCUPA, con el objeto de determinar la capacidad antagónica de tres cepas nativas de Trichoderma spp.
Gonzalez Ocampo, Brayan Giovanny
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