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The Quest for Functional Ingredients for Sustainable Aquaculture Feeds in Sub‐Saharan Africa
The aquaculture sector plays a key role in ensuring food and nutritional security as well as fostering economic growth in sub‐Saharan Africa (SSA). However, as the sector continues to grow, its future faces economic, environmental, and sustainability challenges.
Arnold Ebuka Irabor +6 more
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The current study aimed to create an electrostatic window screen to keep stable flies and houseflies out of cattle barns. The screen comprised three identical framed metal nets arranged in parallel at specific intervals.
Yoshihiro Takikawa +4 more
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Determination of the Distribution of Bacterial and Parasitic Infection by House Fly in term of Type of Solid Waste Contact in Kerman Province [PDF]
The aim of this study was to determine the parasitic and bacterial contaminations of houseflies found around various garbages, and to emphasize the necessity of fly control and taking more efficient strategies for garbage disposal.
M Aghasi, M Zareazadeh
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Regulation of the juvenile hormone titre in the Colorado potato beetle [PDF]
Three main topics were investigated in regulation of the titre of juvenile hormone in haemolymph of the Colorado potato beetle ( Leptinotarsa decemlineata Say): enzymic breakdown of the hormone; binding and protection of the hormone by carrier proteins ...
Kramer, S.J.
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Musca domestica acts as transport vector hosts
Background Musca domestica is the most common flies all over the world. More than 100 pathogens may cause diseases in human and animals. Houseflies transmitted helminthic eggs, protozoa cysts and trophozoites, bacteria fungi, and virus by mechanical ...
Ragaa Issa
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A housefly sensory-motor integration laboratory
Insects have many interesting behaviors that can be observed in an introductory biology laboratory setting. In the present article, we describe several reflexes using the housefly Musca domestica that can be used to introduce students to sensory and motor responses and encourage them to think about the underlying neural circuits and integration of ...
Edwin R, Griff, Thomas C, Kane
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Synthetic insecticides are frequently used to manage disease vectors like houseflies, however, these chemicals are hazardous to human and animal health and not affordable to most people in rural areas. As a result, the demand for a substitute is pressing.
Fatai Olaitan Alao +4 more
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The influence of visual landscape on the free flight behavior of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster [PDF]
To study the visual cues that control steering behavior in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster, we reconstructed three-dimensional trajectories from images taken by stereo infrared video cameras during free flight within structured visual landscapes ...
Dickinson, Michael H., Tammero, Lance F.
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A contribution to vision-based autonomous helicopter flight in urban environments [PDF]
A navigation strategy that exploits the optic flow and inertial information to continuously avoid collisions with both lateral and frontal obstacles has been used to control a simulated helicopter flying autonomously in a textured urban environment ...
Anadan +33 more
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Ethnobotanical survey of pesticidal plants used in South Uganda : case study of Masaka district [PDF]
Use of synthetic pesticides in developing countries is not only limited by their being expensive but also the small (uneconomic) fields whose limited production costs cannot offset costs of agricultural implements like agro-chemicals. Subsistence farmers,
Charles, Kudamba +3 more
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