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Wolbachia and DNA barcoding insects: patterns, potential and problems [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Wolbachia is a genus of bacterial endosymbionts that impacts the breeding systems of their hosts. Wolbachia can confuse the patterns of mitochondrial variation, including DNA barcodes, because it influences the pathways through which mitochondria are ...
BC Schmidt   +75 more
core   +4 more sources

Effect of intercrops and border crops on the diversity of parasitoids and predators in agroecosystem

open access: yesEgyptian Journal of Biological Pest Control, 2018
Diversity of parasitoids and predators in the sole cropped and intercropped, border cropped, and hedgerow cropped fields of guava (sole cropped and intercropped with cowpea), mulberry (sole cropped and border cropped with castor), and sapota (sole ...
U. Amala, T. M. Shivalingaswamy
doaj   +1 more source

Histological and Electron Microscopical Observations on the Testis and Male Accessory Glands of Poecilimon ataturki Ünal, 1999 (Orthoptera, Tettigoniidae)

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Biology, 2021
Objective: The literature has many studies in the world about the morphology and histology of insect tissues, especially structures related to reproductive systems.
Damla Amutkan Mutlu   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Erratum to: Composition of Anopheles mosquitoes, their blood-meal hosts, and Plasmodium falciparum infection rates in three islands with disparate bed net coverage in Lake Victoria, Kenya

open access: yesMalaria Journal, 2017
After publication of the article [1], it has been brought to our attention that a funding acknowledgement has been omitted from the original article. The authors would like to include the following, “The study was undertaken as part of the Target Malaria
Edwin Ogola   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Insect (Arthropoda: Insecta) Composition in the Diet of Ornate Box Turtles (Terrapene ornata ornata) in Two Western Illinois Sand Prairies, with a New State Record for Cyclocephala (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
A study of fecal samples collected over a two-year period from juvenile ornate box turtles (Terrapene ornata ornata Agassiz) revealed diets consisting of six orders of insects representing 19 families. Turtles were reared in captivity from eggs harvested
Lago, P. K.   +3 more
core   +3 more sources

Effects of the pesticides chlorpyriphos, metsulfuron-methyl, and thiamethoxam on ant communities in wheat crop

open access: yesBioscience Journal, 2022
Ants are important components of food webs in several ecosystems. In anthropic areas, they can be used as bioindicators of the environmental impacts caused by many factors or in the evaluation of the dynamics of the recovery of an area after a certain ...
Emerson Cristi de Barros   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Tree defence and bark beetles in a drying world: carbon partitioning, functioning and modelling. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
Drought has promoted large-scale, insect-induced tree mortality in recent years, with severe consequences for ecosystem function, atmospheric processes, sustainable resources and global biogeochemical cycles.
Almuth Hammerbacher   +15 more
core   +1 more source

Characterization of Heat Shock Protein 60 as an Interacting Partner of Superoxide Dismutase 2 in the Silkworm, Bombyx mori, and Its Response to the Molting Hormone, 20-Hydroxyecdysone

open access: yesAntioxidants, 2021
Oxidative stress promotes pupation in some holometabolous insects. The levels of superoxide, a reactive oxygen species (ROS), are increased and superoxide dismutase 1 (BmSod1) and superoxide dismutase 2 (BmSod2) are decreased during metamorphic events in
Yosui Nojima
doaj   +1 more source

Collecting \u3ci\u3eNeocurtilla Hexadactyla\u3c/i\u3e, the Northern Mole Cricket (Orthoptera: Gryllidae), in Iowa [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
(excerpt) The northern mole cricket, Neocurtilla hexadactyla (Perty), is a common insect that is infrequently collected perhaps owing to its burrowing and nocturnal habits.
DeWitt, J. R
core   +2 more sources

Composition of Anopheles mosquitoes, their blood-meal hosts, and Plasmodium falciparum infection rates in three islands with disparate bed net coverage in Lake Victoria, Kenya

open access: yesMalaria Journal, 2017
Background Small islands serve as potential malaria reservoirs through which new infections might come to the mainland and may be important targets in malaria elimination efforts. This study investigated malaria vector species diversity, blood-meal hosts,
Edwin Ogola   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

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