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Brood parasitism reduces but does not prevent Bombus terrestris reproductive success

Insect Science, EarlyView.
Graphical depiction of the colony splitting process. Throughout figures in this paper, results pertaining to host success are represented in blue, and cuckoo success is represented in red. Abstract Cuckoo bumblebees are obligate brood parasites that must invade a colony of their host bumblebee species in order to reproduce.
Sofia Dartnell, Lynn V. Dicks
wiley   +1 more source

Towards a Multispecies Approach to Caste in Sinhala Society: Interspecies Dynamics between Cinnamon and the Salagama People

Caste
This article deploys a multispecies perspective to understand the role of human and non-human actors shaping the Sinhala caste system in Sri Lanka. Apart from human interlocutors, certain animal species (e.g.
Kalinga Tudor Silva
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Behavioral, Ecological, and Morphological Data Suggest a Close Relationship Between the Ant Colobopsis truncata and the Gall Wasp Aphelonyx cerricola

Integrative Zoology, EarlyView.
Aphelonyx cerricola and the different stages that make this gall colonizable by ants. ABSTRACT Wasps of the family Cynipidae are known to induce galls of a species‐specific morphology, which during senescence provide a refuge for secondary insect fauna, especially ants.
Daniele Giannetti, Diego Gil‐Tapetado, Enrico Schifani, Elia Nalini, Donato A. Grasso, Carlo Polidori   +5 more
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The Psychomachia of Caste and Psychoanalysis in India

Caste
Psychoanalytic theory has been invoked to study gender, race, and colonialism, especially Indian postcoloniality, and its claims to cross-cultural relevance have also been interrogated in Indian scholarship from these perspectives.
Divya Dwivedi
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Potential Correlation Between Bombus lantschouensis Thoracic Morphology and Flight Behavior

Integrative Zoology, EarlyView.
Potential correlation between Bombus lantschouensis thoracic morphology and flight behavior. ABSTRACT Remarkably little modern work has investigated the thoracic structures of insects and their relationship to flight locomotion. Most studies focus exclusively on either morphology or flight kinematics.
Wenjie Li, Sipei Liu, Le Zong, Zhengzhong Huang, Lei Jiang, Xiaokun Liu, Pingping Yang, Yitian Zhang, Zhong Du, Weili Fan, Zhuanghui Qin, Xieshuang Wang, Xinying Zhang, Xiaolong Wang, Haodong Yin, Jiandong An, Chaodong Zhu, Michael C. Orr, Jiangning Wang, Siqin Ge   +19 more
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Rethinking Studying Up: Caste, Positionality, and Reflexivity in Fieldwork

International Journal of Qualitative Methods
Who holds epistemic authority to study whom, and what unspoken imperatives—social, institutional, or cultural—shape our research choices? This paper interrogates the challenges of research in a caste-stratified society, where caste functions not just as ...
Madhuri Kamtam
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From the Tea Gardens to the Clinic: Adibaxi Health in Assam and Caste and Indigeneity in Indian Modernity, India

Caste
The tea plantations of Assam, remnants of the British Raj in postcolonial India, comprise an important epistemic site for interrogating transformations in the ancient caste system within Indian modernity.
Sanghamitra Das
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Decoding Dual Regulatory Layers: Integrating Differential Expression and Alternative Splicing Dynamics in the Evolution of Laryngeal Echolocation Across Chiropteran Lineages

Integrative Zoology, EarlyView.
We integrated short‐read and long‐read RNA‐seq data from cochlear tissues of echolocating and non‐echolocating bats to disentangle transcriptional and post‐transcriptional regulation. Echolocating bats showed neural‐function enrichment among differentially expressed genes, while alternatively spliced genes were linked to epigenetic regulation. Overlaps
Jianyu Wu, Daoyuan Hu, Min Chen, Xiuguang Mao   +3 more
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Size, Spines, and Nests: What Drives Variation in Death‐Feigning Behavior in Fungus‐Farming Ants?

Integrative Zoology, EarlyView.
We investigated death‐feigning (DF; thanatosis) in fungus‐farming ants, testing how stimulus intensity, morphology, and nest traits shape its occurrence and duration using generalized linear mixed models. Stronger stimuli increased both likelihood and duration, but most variation was structured across species, colonies, and individuals.
Danon Clemes Cardoso, Maykon Passos Cristiano, Jürgen Heinze   +2 more
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Creative writing on gender and caste in Dalit autobiographies and biographies: a view from within

Creativity Studies
This paper critically examines the oeuvre of Kaushalya Baisantry and Sharmila Rege, focusing on their creative writing, Twice Cursed (orig. Dohra Abhishaap, originally published in 1999) and Writing Caste/Writing Gender: Narrating Dalit Women’s ...
Md Moshabbir Alam
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