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A new gene family (BAPs) of Cotesia bracovirus induces apoptosis of host hemocytes
Virulence, 2023 Polydnaviruses (PDVs), obligatory symbionts with parasitoid wasps, function as host immune suppressors and growth and development regulator. PDVs can induce host haemocyte apoptosis, but the underlying mechanism remains largely unknown. Here, we provided
Ze-Hua Wang +5 more
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Fast and robust learning by reinforcement signals: explorations in the insect brain [PDF]
, 2009 We propose a model for pattern recognition in the insect brain. Departing from a well-known body of knowledge about the insect brain, we investigate which of the potentially present features may be useful to learn input patterns rapidly and in a stable ...
Huerta, Ramón, Nowotny, Thomas
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Interpreting insect declines: seven challenges and a way forward
Insect Conservation and Diversity, 2020 Many insect species are under threat from the anthropogenic drivers of global change. There have been numerous well‐documented examples of insect population declines and extinctions in the scientific literature, but recent weaker studies making extreme ...
R. Didham +12 more
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New Microbes and New Infections, EarlyView., 2014 Abstract We describe a case of fungal keratitis due to Beauveria bassiana in a farmer with Fuchs' dystrophy, treated with amphotericin B. Surgery with penetrating keratoplasty was necessary to resolve the lesions. Susceptibility testing and molecular sequencing permitted the identification and treatment of this rare aetiological agent of invasive ...
M. Ligozzi +8 more
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BMC Genomics, 2018 Background Anopheles mosquitoes are efficient vectors of human malaria, but it is unknown why they do not transmit viruses as well as Aedes and Culex mosquitoes.
Guillaume Carissimo +3 more
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On mathematical modelling of insect flight dynamics in the context of micro air vehicles [PDF]
, 2006 This paper discusses several aspects of mathematical modelling relevant to the flight dynamics of insect flight in the context of insect-like flapping wing micro air vehicles (MAVs).
Ansar, Salman A. +2 more
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Adaptive Representations of Sound for Automatic Insect Recognition [PDF]
, 2023 Insect population numbers and biodiversity have been rapidly declining with time, and monitoring these trends has become increasingly important for conservation measures to be effectively implemented. But monitoring methods are often invasive, time and resource intense, and prone to various biases. Many insect species produce characteristic sounds that
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Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2018 When counting-like abilities were first described in the honeybee in the mid-1990s, many scholars were sceptical, but such capacities have since been confirmed in a number of paradigms and also in other insect species. Counter to the intuitive notion that counting is a cognitively advanced ability, neural network analyses indicate that it can be ...
Skorupski, P. +3 more
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The mitochondrial genome of Aenasius arizonensis (Hymenoptera: Encyrtidae) with novel gene order
Mitochondrial DNA. Part B. Resources, 2019 Aenasius arizonensis is the endoparasitoid of mealybug (Phenacoccus solenopsis) and plays an important role in biological control. We sequenced the A. arizonensis mitochondrial genome using next-generation sequencing.
Yue Ma +4 more
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Conservation of transcriptional elements in the obligate symbiont of the whitefly Bemisia tabaci [PDF]
PeerJ, 2019 Background Bacterial symbiosis is widespread in arthropods, especially in insects. Some of the symbionts undergo a long-term co-evolution with the host, resulting in massive genome decay.
Dan-Tong Zhu +5 more
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