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Taxon, Arboreality, Sex, and Season—Factors Influencing Gastrointestinal Parasite Occurrence in Zoo‐Housed Non‐Human Primates

open access: yesZoo Biology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The emergence of anthelminthic resistance is a well‐documented phenomenon in livestock and companion animals. Given the scarcity of new antiparasitic drugs, the implementation of effective, holistic anthelminthic control strategies is critical to preserving the efficacy of existing treatments.
Stalder Sandro, Hatt Jean‐Michel
wiley   +1 more source

Survey of Optimal methods for the control of Cockroaches in sewers of Qom city [PDF]

open access: yes
Background and objectives: domestic sewers and wastewater treatment plants are suitable places for the growth of some types of Cockroaches. Annually the water and wastewater company of Qom city make considerable attempts to overwhelm the problem.
زارعی, احمد   +5 more
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Circular 40 [PDF]

open access: yes, 1980
For cooperation and assistance in the work reported here, we gratefully acknowledge Dr. William Burgoyne, State of Alaska Division of Environmental Conservation and Mr. Delon Brown, USDA, Alaska Crop and Livestock Reporting Service.
Bleicher, David P.   +2 more
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The predatory behavior of ants: an impressive panoply of morphological adaptations

open access: yesInsect Science, EarlyView.
This review focuses on predation in ants, showing the wide diversity of cases from solitary foraging to group hunting tactics, as well as the evolution of mandible shape frequently adapted to capture specific prey. Although most ants are generalist feeders, finding their sugary substances directly on plants or indirectly via sap‐sucking insects, some ...
Alain Dejean   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

The majority of cockroaches from the Samutprakarn province of Thailand are carriers of parasitic organisms [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
We undertook a study of the mechanical transmission of parasitic organisms in cockroaches in the Samutprakarn province of Thailand. In this study, 920 cockroaches were obtained from 18 open-air shopping markets in 5 districts and 1 subdistrict of this ...
Chamavit, Pennapa   +2 more
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An Overlooked Habitat‐Dependent Link Between Metabolism and Water Loss in Reptiles

open access: yesIntegrative Zoology, EarlyView.
We measured the gas exchange of six lizard and six snake species, under high and low air humidity, and two intriguing patterns emerged. First, although desert species lose less water via evaporation than similar‐sized mesic species under similar conditions, water loss is virtually the same when each is exposed to its natural conditions.
Shahar Dubiner, Shai Meiri, Eran Levin
wiley   +1 more source

РЕЗУЛЬТАТЫ БИОЛОГИЧЕСКОГО ТЕСТИРОВАНИЯ ЭКОЛОГИЧЕСКИ БЕЗОПАСНЫХ ПРЕПАРАТОВ НАТУРАЛЬНОГО ПРОИСХОЖДЕНИЯ НА NAUPHOETA CINEREA

open access: yesCifra: Биологические науки
Для борьбы с эктопаразитами сельскохозяйственных животных традиционно используются химические средства, обладающие токсичностью, кумулятивностью и негативным воздействием на экосистему.
Бутаков Е.И.
doaj   +1 more source

Cockroaches and Food-borne Pathogens

open access: yesEnvironmental Health Insights, 2020
Food-borne disease is a widespread and escalating public health problem globally. About a quarter of the microorganisms isolated from cockroaches are food-borne pathogens including Escherichia coli O157:H7, Staphylococcus aureus, Bacillus cereus ...
Eric S Donkor
doaj   +1 more source

An ‘axe for the frozen sea’ : Estrin’s magic agential realism, insect thigmotaxis, and the problem with Kafka [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
This paper seeks to demonstrate how Marc Estrin’s Insect Dreams: the Half Life of Gregor Samsa constitutes the first piece of magic agential realist literature about insects.
Chen, Melvin
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Taxonomic Features and Comparison of the Gut Microbiome from Two Edible Fungus-Farming Termites (Macrotermes falciger, M. natalensis) Harvested in the Vhembe District of Limpopo, South Africa [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Background Termites are an important food resource for many human populations around the world, and are a good supply of nutrients. The fungus-farming ‘higher’ termite members of Macrotermitinae are also consumed by modern great apes and are implicated ...
Duncan, Frances D.   +6 more
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