Retrospection of Research on Dragonfly and Damselfly (Odonata) During Past Fifty Years: A Bibliometric Review [PDF]
Dragonflies and damselflies (Odonata) play important roles in ecology and are used as model organisms in evolutionary studies, but a comprehensive overview of Odonata research has been lacking.
Gang-Qiang Fan +2 more
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Similar Survival Rates of Territorial and Sneaker Males in a Polymorphic Damselfly: A Multi‐Year Study [PDF]
Male alternative reproductive tactics (ARTs) have been documented across diverse taxa and typically involve a male morph that defends resources to attract females and an alternate morph that exploits this behavior to obtain matings by stealth ...
Yoshitaka Tsubaki +4 more
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Trait divergence in resource use and susceptibility to predation can promote local competitor coexistence if such divergence generates demographic advantages when species are rare, producing frequency‐dependent stabilizing effects. These effects may vary
Miguel Gómez‐Llano +5 more
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Damselfly larvae have been widely used to evaluate the environmental quality of freshwater ecosystems. However, there have been limited studies on the pollution characteristics of organophosphate esters (OPEs) in damselfly larvae. This study investigated
Yang Yuxia, Wei Chao, Jianzhong Xu
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Levels and Spatial Patterns of Effective Population Sizes in the Southern Damselfly (Coenagrion mercuriale): On the Need to Carefully Interpret Single‐Point and Temporal Estimations to Set Conservation Guidelines [PDF]
The effective population size (Ne) is a key parameter in conservation and evolutionary biology, reflecting the strength of genetic drift and inbreeding.
Agathe Lévêque +6 more
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Predatory Potential of Nymphal Odonates on Aedes aegypti Developing in Freshwater and Brackish Water Habitats [PDF]
Aedes aegypti, the primary vector of dengue, undergoes preimaginal development in brackish water (BW). However, dengue vector control exclusively targets freshwater (FW) habitats.
Sivasingham Arthiyan +3 more
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A Comparison of Wing Shape and Size in Andromorph and Gynomorph Females with Males of Calopteryx Intermedia Using Geometric Morphometrics [PDF]
Female polymorphism is visible in some populations of Odonata species for unknown reasons. In general, one of the female forms which is more or less similar to males is called andromorph. Andromorph females show similar color patterns and sometimes, even
Fatemeh Dorsetan +2 more
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New records of the Critically Endangered Leptagrion acutum Santos, 1961 (Odonata, Coenagrionidae) from southern Bahia, Brazil [PDF]
Leptagrion acutum Santos, 1961 is endemic to Brazil and, since 2003, listed as Critically Endangered in the Red Book of Threatened Brazilian Fauna. In this study, L.
Cintia Santos +2 more
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Factors Influencing the Distribution of Endemic Damselflies in Vanuatu
Vanuatubasis Ober and Staniczek is a genus of damselfly endemic to Vanuatu. Little is known about the distribution and general natural history of the genus.
Natalie A. Saxton +5 more
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Nonadaptive radiation in damselflies [PDF]
AbstractAdaptive radiations have long served as living libraries to study the build‐up of species richness; however, they do not provide good models for radiations that exhibit negligible adaptive disparity. Here, we review work on damselflies to argue that nonadaptive mechanisms were predominant in the radiation of this group and have driven species ...
Maren Wellenreuther +1 more
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