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Comparative Cytogenetics, 2012 Using the fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH), the presence of (TTAGG)n telomeric sequence was detected in the chromosomes of Lethocerus patruelis (Stål, 1854) belonging to the family Belostomatidae (Heteroptera: Nepomorpha).
Valentina Kuznetsova +2 more
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Complete mitochondrial DNA sequence of the giant water bug Kirkaldyia deyrolli (Hemiptera: Belostomatidae). [PDF]
Mitochondrial DNA. Part B. Resources, 2020 Giant water bugs (genus Kirkaldyia and Lethocerus) are well known species from aquatic habitats throughout the world’s subtropical and tropical areas. Only one species of the Kirkaldyia deyrolli is distributed in Japan. K. deyrolli has been designated as
Juiki Nakasako +3 more
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The pace and shape of ant ageing. [PDF]
Biol Rev Camb Philos SocABSTRACT Ants have been proposed as good models to study ageing and the effects of extrinsic mortality because of their long lifespans and plasticity of ageing within species. We discuss how age‐dependent extrinsic mortality might influence queen lifespan, and how the effect of age‐independent extrinsic mortality needs further study, accounting for ...
Jaimes-Nino LM, Oettler J.
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Modelling the spatial distribution of aquatic insects (Order Hemiptera) potentially involved in the transmission of Mycobacterium ulcerans in Africa [PDF]
Parasites & Vectors, 2018 Background Biting aquatic insects belonging to the order Hemiptera have been suggested as potential vectors of Mycobacterium ulcerans in endemic areas for Buruli ulcer (BU).
Jorge Cano +5 more
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First records of Lethocerus cfr. patruelis (Stål, 1854) from Calabria (southern Italy) (Hemiptera: Heteroptera, Belostomatidae) [PDF]
Fragmenta entomologica, 2021 Lethocerus patruelis (Stål, 1854) is the only European member of the Belostomatidae family. During the last decades Lethocerus patruelis records have become frequent in south-eastern Italy, probably due to multiple accidental introductions or a natural ...
Elvira Castiglione +3 more
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Successful hatching from eggs carried by females and naturally removed from incubant males in Belostoma spp. water bugs (Heteroptera: Belostomatidae) [PDF]
Revista de Biología Tropical, 2006 Within Belostomatinae water bug species (Heteroptera, Belostomatidae) it has been hitherto believed that the completion of embryonic development is successful only if eggs are incubated on male hemelytra.
Ana Lía Estévez +2 more
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Biota Colombiana, 2013 Debido a la escasa información de las chinches acuáticas de la superfamilia Nepoidea en Colombia, se recopiló información mediante la revisión de las principales colecciones entomológicas a nivel nacional y la bibliografía existente para este grupo.
Iván Romero, Jorge Ari Noriega
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Sexual selection of male parental care in giant water bugs [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2016 Paternal care can be maintained under sexual selection, if it helps in attracting more mates. We tested the hypothesis in two giant water bug species, Appasus major and Appasus japonicus, that male parental care is sexually selected through female ...
Shin-ya Ohba +2 more
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ZooKeys, 2013 The karyotype and meiosis in males of giant water bug Lethocerus patruelis (Heteroptera: Belostomatidae: Lethocerinae) were studied using standard and fluorochrome (CMA3 and DAPI) staining of chromosomes.
Snejana Grozeva +4 more
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PREDATORY INSECTS ASSOCIATED WITH MOSQUITOES AND THEIR RELATIVE ABUNDANCE AT DAKAHLIA GOVERNORATE. [PDF]
Journal of Plant Protection and Pathology, 2009 Ten species of predatory insects were found associated with mosquitoes larvae and pupae in three districts (Mansoura, Talkha, and Miniet El-Nasr) from January 2005 till December 2007 at Dakahlia governorate in the present study.
A. Ahmed, A. Abdel-Salam, M. Ragab
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