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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
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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
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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

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

Survive a Warming Climate: Insect Responses to Extreme High Temperatures.

open access: yesAnnual Review of Entomology, 2020
Global change includes a substantial increase in the frequency and intensity of extreme high temperatures (EHTs), which influence insects at almost all levels. The number of studies showing the ecological importance of EHTs has risen in recent years, but
Chun‐Sen Ma, G. Ma, S. Pincebourde
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Scotch Pine Deterioration in Michigan Caused by Pine Root Weevil Complex [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Pine root tip weevil, Hylobius rhizophagus, and pine root collar weevil, H. radicis, attack certain Scotch pine stands simultaneously causing more mortality than expected from either insect alone.
Mosher, Daniel G, Wilson, Louis F
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Evolution of Insect Color Vision: From Spectral Sensitivity to Visual Ecology.

open access: yesAnnual Review of Entomology, 2020
Color vision is widespread among insects but varies among species, depending on the spectral sensitivities and interplay of the participating photoreceptors. The spectral sensitivity of a photoreceptor is principally determined by the absorption spectrum
C. J. van der Kooi   +4 more
semanticscholar   +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

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