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Does Handling for Public Talks in Zoos Affect the Behaviour of Captive Mexican Red-Kneed Spiders Brachypelma hamorii?

open access: yesJournal of Zoological and Botanical Gardens, 2022
Zoos include invertebrates in visitor interaction sessions to educate and spread conservation messages to the public. Yet, the welfare implications of these encounters on invertebrates are unstudied.
Charlotte Gresham   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Assessing the Welfare of Captive Group-Housed Cockroaches, Gromphadorhina oblongonota

open access: yesAnimals, 2023
The welfare of invertebrates under human care is of growing concern, particularly with the increasing interest in insect farming as an environmentally sustainable means of producing food.
Danielle Free, Sarah Wolfensohn
doaj   +1 more source

VectorBase: an updated bioinformatics resource for invertebrate vectors and other organisms related with human diseases

open access: yesNucleic Acids Res., 2014
VectorBase is a National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases supported Bioinformatics Resource Center (BRC) for invertebrate vectors of human pathogens.
Gloria I. Giraldo-Calderón   +10 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Aquatic Organisms Research with DNA Barcodes

open access: yesDiversity, 2021
Since their inception, DNA barcodes have become a powerful tool for understanding the biodiversity and biology of aquatic species, with multiple applications in diverse fields such as food security, fisheries, environmental DNA, conservation, and exotic ...
Manuel Elías-Gutiérrez   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Transport Distance of Invertebrate Environmental DNA in a Natural River

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2014
Environmental DNA (eDNA) monitoring is a novel molecular technique to detect species in natural habitats. Many eDNA studies in aquatic systems have focused on lake or ponds, and/or on large vertebrate species, but applications to invertebrates in river ...
Kristy Deiner, F. Altermatt
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Oxygen is a better predictor of macroinvertebrate richness than temperature—a systematic review

open access: yesEnvironmental Research Letters, 2021
Despite ongoing loss of diversity in freshwater ecosystems, and despite mitigation measures to halt this loss, it is still not clear what ecological drivers underlies lotic biodiversity.
L Croijmans, J F De Jong, H H T Prins
doaj   +1 more source

Vertebrate and Invertebrate Animal and New In Vitro Models for Studying Neisseria Biology

open access: yesPathogens, 2023
The history of Neisseria research has involved the use of a wide variety of vertebrate and invertebrate animal models, from insects to humans. In this review, we itemise these models and describe how they have made significant contributions to ...
Michael M. Girgis, Myron Christodoulides
doaj   +1 more source

Marine Invertebrate Metabolites with Anticancer Activities: Solutions to the “Supply Problem”

open access: yesMarine Drugs, 2016
Marine invertebrates provide a rich source of metabolites with anticancer activities and several marine-derived agents have been approved for the treatment of cancer.
N. Gomes   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Replanting of first‐cycle oil palm results in a second wave of biodiversity loss

open access: yesEcology and Evolution, 2019
Conversion of forest to oil palm plantations results in a significant loss of biodiversity. Despite this, first‐cycle oil palm plantations can sustain relatively high biodiversity compared to other crops.
Adham Ashton‐Butt   +10 more
doaj   +1 more source

Halogenated Metabolites from the Diet of Aplysia dactylomela Rang

open access: yesMolecules, 2020
Invertebrates are an important source of structurally-diverse and biologically-active halogenated metabolites. The sea hare Aplysia dactylomela Rang has long been known to possess halogenated metabolites of dietary origin that are used as a self-defense ...
Kishneth Palaniveloo   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

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