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The Rolling of Food by Dung Beetles Affects the Oviposition of Competing Flies

Insects, 2018
Flies are the main competitors of dung beetles for oviposition sites and rolling dung beetles relocate their food to reduce interspecific competition. Furthermore, dung beetles deposit chemical substances on the food ball that may repel fly larvae and ...
Manuel A. Ix-Balam, Maria G. A. Oliveira, Júlio Louzada, Jeremy N. McNeil, Eraldo Lima   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

HeaTrace: A Parametric Design‐to‐Fabrication Workflow for Thermally Programmable Soft Robots

Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
A programmable thermal actuation workflow enables soft robots to be designed and fabricated with embedded heaters that drive multiple responses. By combining performance‐driven heater design with multimaterial fabrication, the system supports thermally triggered shape change, stiffness tuning, and thermochromic visual response, as demonstrated through ...
Naresh Kumar Thanigaivel, Thileepan Stalin, Elgar Kanhere, Aby Raj Plamootil Mathai, Konstantin Sakharov, Yong Lin, Hirusha Madhuwantha Loku Hettige, Gumawang Hiramandala, Shlomo Magdassi, Pablo Valdivia Y Alvarado   +9 more
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First record of bird and spider species preying on dung beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae) in the Amazon Forest

Entomological Communications
Predator-prey relationships are critical for establishing trophic networks, but our understanding of these interactions is hindered by a lack of records in tropical rainforest ecosystems.
Renato P. Salomão, Cleiton Valentim, Andre F. A. Lira   +2 more
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The roles of beetles and flies in yak dung removal in an alpine meadow of eastern Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau

, 2010
Flies and beetles are 2 major functional invertebrate groups responsible for dung removal and nutrient cycling in many alpine pastures. In order to determine the effect of the 2 groups on dung removal rate, as well as the associated mechanisms, we ...
Sun, Shucun, Sun, SC, Chinese Acad Sci, ECORES Lab, Chengdu Inst Biol, Chengdu 610041, Peoples R China, Wu, Xinwei   +2 more
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Dung beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea) in three landscapes in Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil

Brazilian Journal of Biology
Dung beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea) in three landscapes in Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil. Dung Beetles are important for biological control of intestinal worms and dipterans of economic importance to cattle, because they feed and breed in dung, killing
MM. Rodrigues, MA. Uchôa, S. Ide
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A new occurrence of tetrapod footprints from the Late Triassic of the Candelária Sequence, Brazil

The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Abstract The Hyperodapedon Assemblage Zone of the Candelária Sequence (Santa Maria Supersequence, Paraná Basin) preserves one of the most significant Late Triassic continental vertebrate assemblages in southern Brazil. Despite the relatively well‐documented body fossil record from this interval, ichnological records remain comparatively scarce.
Murilo Andrade‐Silva, Heitor Francischini   +1 more
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Integration of Nutrition and Organic Agriculture Framework in Managing Gastrointestinal Nematodes in Ruminants

Animal Research and One Health, EarlyView.
Gastrointestinal nematode infections damage the gastrointestinal epithelial tissues of ruminants, affecting nutrient utilization and overall production performance. This review outlines host‐gastrointestinal nematode interactions and discusses integrated control strategies, including nutritional supplementation, grazing management, vaccines, and ...
Wenxun Chen, Xiangfang Tang, Yimin Zhuang, Shengjun Zhao, Ying Ren, Xiaokang Lv   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Effects of an increase in population of sika deer on beetle communities in deciduous forests

ZooKeys, 2016
The overabundance of large herbivores is now recognized as a serious ecological problem. However, the resulting ecological consequences remain poorly understood.
Taichi Iida, Masashi Soga, Shinsuke Koike   +2 more
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Characterization of the Interaction of Known G‐quadruplex Ligands With a Minimal i‐Motif Structure

Chemistry – A European Journal, EarlyView.
The destabilization of a minimal i‐Motif (iM) structure by TMPyP4 is driven by ligand recognition of one terminal iM structural domain. ABSTRACT Peculiar genomic regions are prone to evolve transiently from double‐helix DNA to noncanonical secondary structures in response to physiological stress.
Davide Auricchio, Marko Trajkovski, Janez Plavec, Claudia Sissi   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Are dung beetles driving dung-fly abundance in traditional agricultural areas in the amazon?

, 2012
We evaluated the effects of different land-use systems on the ability of dung beetles to control the population of detritus-feeding flies. We tested the hypotheses that intensification of land use will reduce dung beetles richness, abundance and biomass ...
Louzada, Julio, Audino, Lívia Dorneles, Korasaki, Vanesca, Braga, Rodrigo Fagundes   +3 more
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