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Antifungal Streptomyces spp., Plausible Partners for Brood-Caring of the Dung Beetle Copris tripartitus

Microorganisms, 2021
The dung beetle Copris tripartitus Waterhouse (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) is a coprophagous insect that lives in and feeds primarily on the feces of mammalian herbivores and is known to protect their offspring from the pathogen-rich environment by ...
Sung Hun Kim, Goeun Park, Jin-Soo Park, H. Kwon   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Optimising bait for pitfall trapping of Amazonian dung beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeinae). [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2013
The accurate sampling of communities is vital to any investigation of ecological processes and biodiversity. Dung beetles have emerged as a widely used focal taxon in environmental studies and can be sampled quickly and inexpensively using baited ...
Charles J Marsh, Julio Louzada, Wallace Beiroz, Robert M Ewers   +3 more
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Low doses of ivermectin cause sensory and locomotor disorders in dung beetles [PDF]

, 2015
Ivermectin is a veterinary pharmaceutical generally used to control the ecto- and endoparasites of livestock, but its use has resulted in adverse effects on coprophilous insects, causing population decline and biodiversity loss.
Cortez, Vieyle, González Rodríguez, Estela, Lobo, Jorge M., Lumaret, Jean-Pierre, Martinez-Pinna, Juan, Numa, Catherine, Ortiz, Antonio J., Sánchez-Piñero, Francisco, Verdú, José R.   +8 more
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Effects of Climate Change on the Distribution of Key Native Dung Beetles in South American Grasslands

Agronomy, 2021
Climate change is a serious threat, and it is necessary to prepare for the future climate conditions of grazing areas. Dung beetle species can help mitigate global warming by contributing to intense nutrient cycling and reduction in greenhouse gas ...
Maria Eduarda Maldaner, Thadeu Sobral-Souza, Victor Mateus Prasniewski, Fernando Z. Vaz-de-Mello   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Negative phenotypic and genetic associations between copulation duration and longevity in male seed beetles [PDF]

, 2009
Reproduction can be costly and is predicted to trade-off against other characters. However, while these trade-offs are well documented for females, there has been less focus on aspects of male reproduction.
AA Hoffmann, B Zwaan, C Mühlhäuser, CW Fox, D Houle, D J Hosken, D Reznick, DA Dewsbury, DA Roff, DA Roff, DJ Hodgson, DJ Hosken, DJ Hosken, DS Falconer, E A Brown, FJ Messina, G Arnqvist, GA Schwarzenbach, GJ Kenagy, HS Crudgington, IT MacBean, J Hunt, J Hunt, JS Kotiaho, L Gay, L Partridge, LW Simmons, LW Simmons, M Ackermann, M Edvardsson, M Edvardsson, M Gasser, M Lynch, M Tatar, MD Tuttle, ME Czesak, MH Gromko, MJG Gage, MJG Gage, MR Rose, MT Siva-Jothy, N Wedell, NG Prasad, OY Martin, OY Martin, P E Eady, P Eady, PE Eady, R Thornhill, R Vasudev, S Paukku, S Pitnick, S Wigby, S-B Horng, T Burk, T Chapman, T Clutton-Brock, T Miyatake, T Price, T Tregenza, TA Mousseau, UM Savalli, UM Savalli, UM Savalli, WA Becker, WA Van Voorhies, WG Hill, WJ Bailey, WU Blanckenhorn, Y Qi   +69 more
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Dung Beetle Diversity and Community Composition Along a Land Use Gradient in a Savannah Ecosystem of North Western Tanzania

Tropical Conservation Science, 2021
Habitat loss and degradation are the most widely cited drivers of changes in species abundance and diversity. We explored changes in dung beetle species diversity and composition across different land uses in the north west Tanzanian savannah.
Roisin Stanbrook, J. Norrey, A. Kisingo, Martin J. Jones   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Metagenomics reveals that dung beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeinae) broadly feed on reptile dung. Did they also feed on that of dinosaurs?

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2023
The origin of the dung-feeding habits in dung beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeinae) is debatable. According to traditional views, the evolution of dung beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeinae) and their feeding habits are largely attributed to mammal dung.
Fernando Lopes, Michele Rossini, Federica Losacco, Giulio Montanaro, Nicole Gunter, Sergei Tarasov   +5 more
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Notes on the Biology of \u3ci\u3eMelanocanthon Nigricornis\u3c/i\u3e (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) [PDF]

, 2018
Melanocanthon nigricornis was observed to break up, bundle up, roll away, and bury pieces of the cap of a gill mushroom growing in sandy prairie in Wisconsin.
Kriska, Nadine L, Williams, Andrew H
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Mammal dung–dung beetle trophic networks: an improved method based on gut-content DNA [PDF]

PeerJ
Background Dung beetles provide many important ecosystem services, including dung decomposition, pathogen control, soil aeration, and secondary seed dispersal. Yet, the biology of most dung beetles remains unknown.
Karen M. Pedersen, Christoph von Beeren, Arianna Oggioni, Nico Blüthgen   +3 more
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Dung‐visiting beetle diversity is mainly affected by land use, while community specialization is driven by climate

Ecology and Evolution, 2022
Dung beetles are important actors in the self‐regulation of ecosystems by driving nutrient cycling, bioturbation, and pest suppression. Urbanization and the sprawl of agricultural areas, however, destroy natural habitats and may threaten dung beetle ...
Jana Englmeier, Christian vonHoermann, Daniel Rieker, Marc Eric Benbow, Caryl Benjamin, Ute Fricke, Cristina Ganuza, Maria Haensel, Tomáš Lackner, Oliver Mitesser, Sarah Redlich, Rebekka Riebl, Sandra Rojas‐Botero, Thomas Rummler, Jörg‐Alfred Salamon, David Sommer, Ingolf Steffan‐Dewenter, Cynthia Tobisch, Johannes Uhler, Lars Uphus, Jie Zhang, Jörg Müller   +21 more
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