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Seasonality as a structuring factor of the dung beetle community in burned neotropical savannas

Ecological Entomology, EarlyView.
We tested the effects of fire, vegetation cover and seasonality on dung beetle communities, focusing on species richness, composition and co‐occurrence patterns in savannas. Fire did not affect species richness. However, seasonality was the dominant factor influencing species composition, followed by fire and vegetation cover.
Nayara Letícia Reis, Kênia A. Santos, Luiz Cortez, Julio Louzada   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Sex Ratio Modulates Reproductive Output and Dung Burying Behavior in Dung Beetle <i>Gymnopleurus sturmi</i> (Macleay, 1821) (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae). [PDF]

Ecol Evol
Zamprogna A, Serin J, René MA, Hajji H, Gleeson P, Pérez Vila S, Lumaret JP, Desurmont G, Caron V.   +8 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Rainfall shapes the physiological condition, but not the body size, of an introduced dung beetle in Brazilian pastures

Ecological Entomology, EarlyView.
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

The genome sequence of the common dung beetle, <i>Aphodius fimetarius</i> (Linnaeus, 1758) (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae). [PDF]

Wellcome Open Res
Mann DJ, Crowley LM, Fletcher C, Angus R, Badham XR, University of Oxford and Wytham Woods Genome Acquisition Lab, Natural History Museum Genome Acquisition Lab, Darwin Tree of Life Barcoding Collective, Wellcome Sanger Institute Tree of Life Management, Samples and Laboratory team, Wellcome Sanger Institute Scientific Operations: Sequencing Operations, Wellcome Sanger Institute Tree of Life Core Informatics team, Tree of Life Core Informatics collective, Darwin Tree of Life Consortium.   +13 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Environmental stress influences reproductive success in male spider mites

Ecological Entomology, EarlyView.
This experiment explores how male juvenile food stress impacts reproductive traits in the haplodiploid spider mite Tetranychus urticae. Males exposed to juvenile food stress had lower reproductive success and females mated to these males also suffered reduced fitness as they were not able to produce optimal offspring sex ratios. The negative effects of
Elsa Noël, Margaux J. M. Lefebvre, Sophie Lefèvre, David M. Shuker, Alison B. Duncan   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

A study of scheduling strategies for microgrids based on the non-dominated sorting dung beetle optimization algorithm. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Chen Y, Ning W, Du W.
europepmc   +1 more source

Additional file 21: Tree S11. of Multigene phylogenetic analysis redefines dung beetles relationships and classification (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae)

, 2016
Sergei Tarasov, Dimitar Dimitrov
openalex   +1 more source

Equine botulism

Equine Veterinary Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Botulism is a severe and often fatal disease in equine patients worldwide. Clostridium botulinum is a ubiquitous soil organism which produces a potent neurotoxin resulting in neuromuscular blockade and flaccid paralysis in affected animals. Definitive diagnosis is often impractical or impossible, leading to diagnosis and treatment based on ...
Kali Slavik, Robert Whitlock, Amy Johnson   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Marking method for dung beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeinae) and its implementation in Colombian Andes

, 2013
Bedir G. Martínez-Quintero, Carlos Cultid‐Medina, Juan C. Rudas-Grajales   +2 more
openalex   +2 more sources

Winter‐active spiders (Clubiona) have a hyperactive antifreeze protein with a unique beta‐solenoid fold

The FEBS Journal, EarlyView.
Antifreeze proteins from winter‐active spiders were purified using their affinity for ice. After LC–MSMS characterization, corresponding transcripts were identified. The antifreeze protein folds as a β‐solenoid with a large flat ice‐binding site on one surface and can bind to ice crystals and prevent their growth at −4 °C.
Laurie A. Graham, Stano Pekár, Ina M. Hainer, Peter L. Davies   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source