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The molecular phylogenetics of Trachymyrmex Forel ants and their fungal cultivars provide insights into the origin and coevolutionary history of ‘higher‐attine’ ant agriculture

Systematic Entomology, Volume 44, Issue 4, Page 939-956, October 2019., 2019
Fungus‐farming ants cultivate fungus gardens for food. ‘Higher’ fungus‐farming ants, including the well‐known leaf‐cutting ants, cultivate domesticated cultivars that are clearly modified for life with ants. Here we show that the higher fungus‐farming ant genus Trachymyrmex consists of three different groups, one of which is the sister group of leaf ...
Scott E. Solomon, Christian Rabeling, Jeffrey Sosa‐Calvo, Cauê T. Lopes, André Rodrigues, Heraldo L. Vasconcelos, Maurício Bacci Jr, Ulrich G. Mueller, Ted R. Schultz   +8 more
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Do Primitively Eusocial Wasps Use Queen Pheromones to Regulate Reproduction? A Case Study of the Paper Wasp Polistes satan

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2019
In several highly eusocial insect species with morphologically distinct castes, queen-characteristic cuticular hydrocarbons (CHCs) have been shown to act as queen signals that suppress the reproduction of nestmate workers.
Cintia A. Oi, Ricardo C. Oliveira, Jelle S. van Zweden, Sidnei Mateus, Jocelyn G. Millar, Fabio S. Nascimento, Tom Wenseleers   +6 more
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Utilização alimentícia e medicinal de Pachymerus nucleorum Fabricius (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Bruchinae) no Brasil

Entomology Beginners, 2022
Após a primeira edição do Congresso Brasileiro de Insetos Alimentícios e Tecnologias Associadas e II Simpósio Brasileiro de Antropoentomofagia (INSETEC), percebeu-se a necessidade de enaltecer os insetos comestíveis do Brasil.
Gabriel Vannozzi Brito, Eraldo Medeiros Costa-Neto   +1 more
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Sociobiologia: Dos insetos sociais aos homens

Estudos de Biologia, 2012
A sociobiologia foi considerada uma disciplina polêmica durante seus primeiros anos, mas tal como a própria teoria da seleção natural, tornou-se uma parte fundamental do estudo do comportamento social. Desde seus primórdios, com os insetos sociais,a abordagem sociobiológica sempre trouxe novos argumentos e gerou teorias que resultaram em diversos ...
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Vespas sociais (Hymenoptera, Vespidae) em cultura de bucha vegetal Luffa aegyptiaca Mill.

Revista Agrogeoambiental, 2018
O cultivo de bucha vegetal Luffa aegyptiaca M. (Cucurbitaceae) é importante fonte de renda para pequenos proprietários rurais, com destaque para o sul do estado de Minas Gerais, contudo, ocorrem perdas de produção significativas ocasionadas por ...
João Batista Dalló, Marcos Magalhães Souza, Evando Luiz Coelho, Angela Gomes Brunismann   +3 more
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A Journey Between Science and the Arts: Templates for the Depiction of the Pineapple (Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries)

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Native to America, the pineapple—Ananas comosus (L.) Merr.—delighted the Europeans who came across it. The fruit was mentioned by the voyagers and missionaries who observed and tasted it in the Americas and, from the 1500s onwards, infused reports, chronicles and natural history treatises with colour and flavour.
Teresa Nobre de Carvalho
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Wasp and Ant Nests: Who Really Protects Whom? New Insights From Amazonian Forests

Austral Ecology, Volume 51, Issue 5, May 2026.
ABSTRACT Studies of animal behaviour are often biased towards species that are large‐bodied or have broad geographic ranges, as these are easier to observe in nature. Consequently, our understanding of behavioural ecology is shaped by such biases, even though these studies have provided important insights.
Sergio Santorelli Junior, João Araújo, William E. Magnusson, Paulo Cézar Salgado Barroso, Alexandre Somavilla   +4 more
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Efeito de grupo versus produção de CO2 em operárias da formiga cortadeira Atta sexdens rubropilosa

Ciência Rural, 2013
Será que a vida em grupo acarreta uma maior atividade individual, e consequentemente, um maior gasto energético? Para responder a essa questão, hipotetizou-se que exista uma maior produção de CO2, quando se aumenta o tamanho do grupo de formigas ...
Roberto da Silva Camargo, Luiz Carlos Forti   +1 more
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Environmental Contamination Affects Associated Bacterial Communities in a Neotropical Arboreal Ant

Biotropica, Volume 58, Issue 3, May 2026.
Environmental stressors such as contamination from mining tailings can alter microbial communities associated with insects, including social ants. Ants, as widespread and ecologically influential insects with stable microbial associations, offer a relevant model to examine these effects.
Marília R. Bitar, Aristóteles Góes‐Neto, Paulo S. Oliveira, Corrie S. Moreau, Sérvio P. Ribeiro   +4 more
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Multiscale Environmental Drivers of Aquatic Insect Assemblages in Cerrado Streams

Austral Ecology, Volume 51, Issue 3, March 2026.
Multi‐scale drivers of aquatic insect communities in Cerrado streams. The gradient (from left to right) indicates increasing spatial scale, showing that abundance is influenced by local factors (conductivity, temperature), taxonomic richness responds to agricultural land use at an intermediate scale, and community composition is structured by regional ...
Juliana Simião‐Ferreira, Isabella Milhomem de Paiva Almeida, Victor Yuri da Silva Moreira, Hugo de Oliveira Barbosa, Daniel de Paiva Silva, Sara Lodi, Daniel Albeny‐Simões, Maisa Carvalho Vieira, Hasley Rodrigo Pereira, Bruno Spacek Godoy   +9 more
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