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Background Culicoides imicola Kieffer and Culicoides bolitinos Meiswinkel (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) are both of veterinary importance, being vectors of Schmallenberg, bluetongue and African horse sickness (AHS) viruses.
F Arné Verhoef +2 more
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Some Diptera families from beer traps in the Volga region (Russia) [PDF]
We have studied the material of some Diptera families collected with beer traps from middle part of the Volga River region (central part of European Russia: Nizhny Novgorod and Ulyanovsk regions, and southeastern part of European Russia: Saratov Region).
L. Dvořák +3 more
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No Detectable Fertility Benefit from a Single Additional Mating in Wild Stalk-Eyed Flies [PDF]
Background: Multiple mating by female insects is widespread, and the explanation(s) for repeated mating by females has been the subject of much discussion.
Fowler, K +8 more
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Motion computation and visual orientation in flies [PDF]
Egelhaaf M, Borst A. Motion computation and visual orientation in flies. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology, A: Comparative Physiology. 1993;104(4):659-673.Visual orientation greatly relies on the evaluation of the motion patterns received by the ...
Egelhaaf, M. +3 more
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Flies and Campylobacter Infection of Broiler Flocks
A total of 8.2% of flies caught outside a broiler house in Denmark had the potential to transmit Campylobacter jejuni to chickens, and hundreds of flies per day passed through the ventilation system into the broiler house.
Birthe Hald +6 more
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Chicken blood provides a suitable meal for the sand fly Lutzomyia longipalpis and does not inhibit Leishmania development in the gut [PDF]
Background The aim of this study was to address the role of chickens as bloodmeal sources for female Lutzomyia longipalpis and to test whether chicken blood is harmful to Leishmania parasite development within the sand flies.
Nascimento, Alexandre +7 more
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Any regular reader of this column will have noticed a preoccupation with developmental pathology. This is a personal interest, but depends on a conviction that the mechanisms of development, properly understood, are central to the development of most degenerative disease and of much other pathology. The latest surprise is about carcinoma of the colon.
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Microhimenopterous parasitoids of flies collected in urban area and bush in Itumbiara, Goiás, Brazil [PDF]
This work reports the occurrence of parasitoid attacks on pupae of flies in urban and woody areas of Itumbiara, Goiás, Brazil. From March 2001 through June 2002, 909 parasitoids were collected from 3,887 pupae of flies in the urban area and 684 were ...
Vanessa B. Rodrigues +5 more
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The Afrotropical (including Malagasy Subregion) species of the genus Asobara Foerster, 1863, are revised. In addition to the redescribed 15 known species, 25 new species are described and illustrated, viz., Asobara abyssiniensis Peris-Felipo, sp. nov., A.
Francisco Javier Peris-Felipo +2 more
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What Are the Best Pollinator Candidates for Camelia oleifera: Do Not Forget Hoverflies and Flies
Camellia oleifera Abel. is an important woody oil plant, and its pollination success is essential for oil production. We conducted this study to select the best pollinator candidates for C.
Bin Yuan +5 more
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