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This work represents an initial analysis of butterflies and day-flying moths of the Gouraya National Park (Algeria). Forty - eight field-surveys were made between February 2011 and January 2012, in three stations (the cliff, the low matorral and the high
S. Berkane, H. Hafir, R. Moulaï
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Insect brain plasticity: effects of olfactory input on neuropil size [PDF]
Insect brains are known to express a high degree of experience-dependent structural plasticity. One brain structure in particular, the mushroom body (MB), has been attended to in numerous studies as it is implicated in complex cognitive processes such as
Maertha Eriksson +2 more
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The large copper butterfly, Lycaena dispar batavus, a subspecies of much conservation interest, is host-specific to the great water dock, Rumex hydrolapathum, but little is known of the relationship between herbivore and host in wild populations.
Mark R. WEBB, Andrew S. PULLIN
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The first record of a butterfly species, the Tamil Treebrown Lethe drypetis todara Moore, 1881 (Nymphalidae: Satyrinae) is described from Deomali Hill range of southern Odisha, in Eastern Ghats of India, collected by fruit-baiting.
Anirban Mahata +2 more
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Evaluating the Migration Mortality Hypothesis Using Monarch Tagging Data
The decline in the eastern North American population of the monarch butterfly population since the late 1990s has been attributed to the loss of milkweed during the summer breeding season and the consequent reduction in the size of the summer population ...
Orley R. Taylor +5 more
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Evaluating costs of heavy metal tolerance in a widely distributed, invasive butterfly
Organismal tolerance to environmental pollution is thought to be constrained by fitness costs, where variants with higher survival in polluted environments have lower performance in nonpolluted environments.
Alexander M. Shephard +2 more
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Closure of a large myelomeningocele defect using the V–Y rotation advancement flap (butterfly flap): a case report and literature review [PDF]
Hatan Mortada +3 more
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Light manipulation principles in biological photonic systems
The science of light and colour manipulation continues to generate interest across a range of disciplines, from mainstream biology, across multiple physics-based fields, to optical engineering.
Starkey Tim, Vukusic Pete
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The lycaenid butterfly Broad-tail Royal Creon cleobis is being reported for the first time from Agasthyamalai Biosphere Reserve, at Peppara Wildlife Sanctuary. Adults were observed within the elevations of 1,000–1,350 m in November 2014.
Raveendran Lekshmi
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Poleward range shifts under climate change involve the colonization of new sites and hence the foundation of new populations at the expanding edge. We studied oviposition site selection in a butterfly under range expansion (Lycaena dispar), a key process
Youri Martin +2 more
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