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Behaviors that come out of a copepod's mind

Limnology and Oceanography, Volume 71, Issue 4, April 2026.
Abstract Many aquatic environments are changing much faster than the gene pools of animals inhabiting them. To better predict how a copepod will behave, it is helpful to try to fathom the world from its sensory and cognitive system. Studies of genes, hormones, neuropeptides, and neural circuits can reveal underlying mechanisms while behavioral studies ...
Jarl Giske, Tom J. Langbehn, Pawel Burkhardt, Johanna M. Aarflot   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Structural stability of plant–pollinator interactions despite seasonal abundance of long‐tongued hawkmoths

Oikos, Volume 2026, Issue 4, April 2026.
Seasonal environmental cycles affect plant–pollinator interactions by altering plant phenology. Periods of low resource availability can filter pollinators and reduce the complexity of interaction networks, but the extent to which the functional morphology of pollinators influences such filtering remains unclear.
Ugo M. Diniz, Luis M. Primo, Francisco A. R. Santos, Isabel C. Machado   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

From fertilizer to insecticide: urban leaf litter chemistry alters the survival landscape of Aedes aegypti

Pest Management Science, Volume 82, Issue 4, Page 3395-3407, April 2026.
Chemical profiling and bioassays reveal that leaf‐litter leachates from urban trees flip between nourishing and killing Aedes aegypti larvae: dilute Tipuana tipu boosts growth, whereas concentrated, aged extracts are >90% lethal. Species‐specific chemistry thus turns street trees into potential self‐renewing tools for integrated vector control ...
Ana Luiza Caldatto, Gilberto Dinis Cozzer, Heloise Restello Remus, Raquel de Brito, Monica Santin Zanatta Schindler, Cássia Alves Lima‐Rezende, Jacir Dal Magro, Renan de Souza Rezende   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

West Nile Virus Transmission Suitability Modeling for Culex pipiens via Temperature and Humidity

GeoHealth, Volume 10, Issue 4, April 2026.
Abstract West Nile Virus (WNV) is the leading cause of mosquito‐borne disease in the United States, yet predicting its transmission remains a significant challenge for public health officials. Many studies use correlative statistical models to predict disease cases using temperature and humidity, but accessible mechanistic approaches that simulate ...
H. M. Jones, D. M. Brett‐Major, J. R. Fauver, Y. Gwon, J. E. Bell   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Automatic traps foster the monitoring and prediction of bark beetle swarming

Journal of Applied Ecology, Volume 63, Issue 4, April 2026.
Automated trap data help bark beetle management to act more timely and targeted, thereby facilitating an effective mitigation of outbreaks. Moreover, the immediate data transmission makes regular manual trap collections unnecessary. While swarming models cannot quantify absolute trap catches without site‐ and trap‐specific calibration, they provide ...
Sven Hofmann, Markus Kautz, Bruno Erne, Georg Heine   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

DsiRNA‐mediated silencing of Ceratitis capitata transformer or transformer‐2 leads to masculinization of XX embryos and systemic gene silencing in ovaries

Insect Science, Volume 33, Issue 2, Page 586-598, April 2026.
We carried out functional studies using Dicer‐substrate small interfering RNAs (DsiRNAs), targeting the sex determination genes Cctransformer (Cctra) and Cctransformer‐2 (Cctra‐2) in the Mediterranean fruit fly (Ceratitis capitata). Microinjection of DsiRNAs into XX embryos (0‐1 h old) rapidly triggered the expression of male‐specific Cctra isoforms ...
Gennaro Volpe, Sarah Maria Mazzucchiello, Domenico De Falco, David Torrente, Stefania Liguori, Noemi Rosati, Dora Baccaro, Michela Mazzeo, Fulvio Bertolotto, Harshini Sangle, Ennio Giordano, Angela Carfora, Francesca Lucibelli, Marianna Varone, Paola Di Lillo, Hugo Diego Perdomo, Mariangela Bonizzoni, Serena Aceto, Marco Salvemini, Molly Duman‐Scheel, Giuseppe Saccone   +20 more
wiley   +1 more source

What Goes First? Effects of Starvation on the Body Condition of a Neotropical Dung Beetle

Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata, Volume 174, Issue 4, Page 321-328, April 2026.
We investigated how prolonged starvation affects key physiological traits in the dung beetle Dichotomius bos. Prolonged starvation leads to significant reductions in body dry mass and fat reserves, while muscle mass remains unchanged. These findings indicate that dung beetles prioritize the maintenance of locomotor muscles while mobilizing stored ...
Leonardo Vilas‐Bôas M. P. de Cerqueira, Renato Portela Salomão, Damián Villaseñor‐Amador, Andressa Fraga Cotta, Pedro Lucas Moreira de Oliveira, César Murilo de Albuquerque Correa   +5 more
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Rainfall shapes the physiological condition, but not the body size, of an introduced dung beetle in Brazilian pastures

Ecological Entomology, Volume 51, Issue 2, Page 346-355, April 2026.
Understanding rainfall‐driven physiological shifts in dung beetles is crucial to predict how climate change may affect the fitness and persistence of key insect species in tropical pastures. We compared body size, dry, lipid and muscle masses of Digitonthophagus gazella collected during dry and rainy seasons in Brazilian pastures to assess the effects ...
Cleilsom M. Cristaldo, Renato Portela Salomão, Pedro Lucas Moreira de Oliveira, Alfredo Raúl Abot, César Murilo de Albuquerque Correa   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Waterbirds and Other Drivers of Endoparasite Communities Across a Hierarchy of Spatial Scales

Freshwater Biology, Volume 71, Issue 4, April 2026.
ABSTRACT Understanding drivers of parasite community structure is compromised by poor sampling and historical focus on one host‐one parasite systems. Yet parasites are ubiquitous and co‐infections are common. This study aimed to identify how various drivers, ranging from landscape scale (waterbird movements, hydrological connectivity, region, host ...
Sarah Nichols, Paolo Ruggeri, Henrietta Pringle, Gavin Siriwardena, Hanna Hartikainen, Beth Okamura   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

The insulin and ecdysone pathways as regulators of diapause termination: transcriptional and protein insights from Pieris napi. [PDF]

BMC Genomics
Süess P, Ziesemer S, Steward RA, Roberts KT, Müller C, Wheat CW, Lehmann P.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source