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Life cycle of Agrotis malefida (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae): a diapausing cutworm
Zoologia (Curitiba), 2013 This study describes the life cycle of Agrotis malefida Guenée, 1852 (Noctuidae: Noctuinae) under laboratory conditions. The insects were reared in a controlled environment (25 ± 1ºC, 70 ± 10% RH and 14 hours photo phase) and observed daily.
Alexandre Specht +8 more
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Multilevel analysis of ethnic clustering across local schools: Exploring group dynamics
British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract This study examines ethnic clustering patterns across English secondary schools from 2010 to 2018 using National Pupil Database data and multilevel modelling. Despite concerns about increased segregation following educational reforms, findings reveal a general decline in ethnic concentration across all groups during this period.
Yiyang Gao
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Plants, 2020 Prior feeding by insect herbivores frequently affects plant quality for herbivores that subsequently feed on the plant. Facilitation occurs when one herbivore improves plant quality for other herbivores, including when the former compromises plant ...
Scott N. Johnson +2 more
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Molecular bases of insect odorant receptor function: specificity and evolution
Biological Reviews, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Insect odorant receptors (ORs) are a class of chemoreceptors that insects use to detect volatile cues in their environment. In recent years, major advances in the field of structural biology have made it possible to obtain the first structures of insect ORs.
Zibo Li +5 more
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Twenty-two new species in the genus Hyphantrophaga Townsend (Diptera: Tachinidae) from Area de Conservación Guanacaste, with a key to the species of Mesoamerica [PDF]
Biodiversity Data Journal, 2019 AJ Fleming +5 more
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Caterpillars Have Antimagic Orientations
Analele Stiintifice ale Universitatii Ovidius Constanta: Seria Matematica, 2018 An antimagic labeling of a directed graph D with m arcs is a bijection from the set of arcs of D to {1, …, m} such that all oriented vertex sums of vertices in D are pairwise distinct, where the oriented vertex sum of a vertex u is the sum of labels of ...
Lozano Antoni
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Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2014 In Lepidoptera, the behavior of caterpillars to plant odors is poorly known. However, caterpillars are equipped with a reduced number of olfactory sensilla (3 on the antenna and 4-5 on the maxillary palps) which they can use to make fine discrimination ...
Kacem eRharrabe +5 more
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT There is strong evidence that design for remanufacturing (DfRem) can reduce initial‐design carbon emissions by up to 30%, and that product design can critically affect remanufacturing feasibility, yet academic adoption of DfRem remains limited.
Okechukwu Okorie +4 more
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The Geographical Journal, EarlyView., 2023 Short Abstract Through interviews with farmers in the Upper Rhine Valley, this article analyses the objectives, drivers and obstacles to adaptation practices and their synergies and trade‐offs with mitigation and other social and environmental issues.
Gaël Bohnert, Brice Martin
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Environmental manipulation for edible insect procurement: a historical perspective
Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine, 2012 Throughout history humans have manipulated their natural environment for an increased predictability and availability of plant and animal resources.
Van Itterbeeck Joost, van Huis Arnold
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