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Diet Outweighs Vertical Transmission in Shaping Dung Beetle Larval Gut Microbiomes. [PDF]
Mol EcolABSTRACT The microbiome is central to host development and adaptation, yet the balance between vertical and environmental acquisition, and how hosts shape surrounding microbial communities, remains poorly understood. Dung beetles rely on microbial symbionts to extract nutrients from vertebrate dung, with part of their microbiome vertically inherited ...
Herrera MJ +4 more
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A Conserved Somatic Sex Determination Cascade Instructs Trait-Specific Sexual Dimorphism in Horned Dung Beetles. [PDF]
Evol DevWe report on the discovery of partial conservation as well as partial divergence of the canonical insect sex determination pathway in the gazella dung beetle, Digitonthophagus gazella, an emerging model system in the study of sexually dimorphic traits.
Mitchell LC, Moczek AP, Nadolski EM.
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Mitochondrial Genome Comparison and Phylogenetic Analysis of Four Species of Dung Beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae). [PDF]
Ecol EvolDung beetles have important ecological and economical values; however, the molecular research of the taxonomic group is very limited. We sequenced mitochondrial genomes of four Scarabaeinae species, with sizes from 14,977 to 18,425 bp, and identified novel gene rearrangements.
Zhang H +7 more
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Dung beetle community composition affects dung turnover in subtropical US grasslands. [PDF]
Ecol Evol, 2022 An important service in many ecosystems is the turnover and degradation of dung deposited by cattle. Dung beetles are the primary group of insects responsible for dung turnover, and factors affecting their abundance and distribution thus impact dung degradation.
Stanbrook R, King JR.
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The joint effects of forest habitat area and fragmentation on dung beetles. [PDF]
Ecol Evol, 2023 We evaluated how forest area and fragmentation (via edge effects) influenced dung beetles per se, and through their effects on the abundance of mammals, using structural equation modeling (SEM). The optimal model explained a significant 26% of the variance in abundance, driven by the positive, direct, effects of forest area and number of monkeys, and ...
Mbora DNM, Mutua MN.
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Biota Colombiana, 2011 El escarabajo coprófago (Digitonthophagus gazella), ha sido introducido en diferentes regiones del mundo con el fin de contribuir en la remoción del excremento y control de parásitos.
Jorge Ari Noriega +2 more
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Sexually transmitted mutualist nematodes shape host growth across dung beetle species. [PDF]
Ecol EvolIn this study, we investigate how sexually transmitted symbionts affect life history traits of three species of dung beetle. We found a consistent positive effect of the presence of Diplogastrellus nematodes on the size of three relatively distantly related beetle host species.
Burdine LW, Moczek AP, Rohner PT.
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The role of dung beetles in seed dispersal in an arid environment
Ecología Austral, 2023 Dung beetles can influence seedling emergence and survival. However, the direction and magnitude of this effect will depend on the functional traits of the dung beetle community and on the prevailing environmental conditions. We studied the role of dung
M. Belén Maldonado +3 more
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Biota Colombiana, 2015 Digitonthophagus gazella es un escarabajo indoafricano introducido en el continente americano como biocontrolador de parásitos y moscas en sistemas ganaderos.
Lina M. Isaza-López +5 more
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