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Pesticides and Soil Invertebrates: A Hazard Assessment

open access: yesFrontiers in Environmental Science, 2021
Agricultural pesticide use and its associated environmental harms is widespread throughout much of the world. Efforts to mitigate this harm have largely been focused on reducing pesticide contamination of the water and air, as runoff and pesticide drift ...
Tari Gunstone   +4 more
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Urban forest invertebrates: how they shape and respond to the urban environment

open access: yesUrban Ecosystems, 2022
Invertebrates comprise the most diversified animal group on Earth. Due to their long evolutionary history and small size, invertebrates occupy a remarkable range of ecological niches, and play an important role as “ecosystem engineers” by structuring ...
D. J. Kotze   +12 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Terebra steering in chalcidoid wasps

open access: yesFrontiers in Zoology, 2023
Various chalcidoid wasps can actively steer their terebra (= ovipositor shaft) in diverse directions, despite the lack of terebral intrinsic musculature.
Benjamin Eggs   +5 more
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Significance of the suture line in cephalopod taxonomy revealed by 3D morphometrics in the modern nautilids Nautilus and Allonautilus

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2021
Assessing the taxonomic importance of the suture line in shelled cephalopods is a key to better understanding the diversity of this group in Earth history.
Amane Tajika   +2 more
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Feeding spectrum of a dominant splash zone enchytraeid, Mesenchytraeus bungei Michaelsen, 1901 (Annelida: Oligochaeta), in Lake Baikal (East Siberia) [PDF]

open access: yesOpuscula Zoologica Instituti Zoosystematici et Oecologici Universitatis Budapestinensis, 2017
The first data on feeding spectrum of Baikal enchytraeids are given. Previously we found that Mesenchytraeus bungei Michaelsen, 1901 dominates in abundance in splash zone Oligochaeta community of Bolshie Koty Bay, Lake Baikal.
Zvereva, Yu. M., Timoshkin, O. A.
doaj   +1 more source

Vibrio harveyi: a serious pathogen of fish and invertebrates in mariculture

open access: yesMarine Life Science & Technology, 2020
Vibrio harveyi, which belongs to family Vibrionaceae of class Gammaproteobacteria, includes the species V. carchariae and V. trachuri as its junior synonyms.
Xiaohua Zhang, Xinxin He, B. Austin
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Complete mitochondrial genomes of two sand diver species (Perciformes, Trichonotidae): novel gene orders and phylogenetic position within Gobiiformes

open access: yesMitochondrial DNA. Part B. Resources, 2022
The complete mitochondrial genome sequences of two species of the family Trichonotidae, Trichonotus elegans (Shimada and Yoshino ) and Trichonotus filamentosus (Steindachner ), were determined using a polymerase chain reaction-based method.
Takashi P. Satoh, Eri Katayama
doaj   +1 more source

A contribution to the Atherigona (Diptera, Muscidae) fauna of Angola [PDF]

open access: yesAfrican Invertebrates
This study lists a total of 13 species of Atherigona Rondani, 1856 from Angola, 9 of which were previously recorded: Atherigona (Atherigona) bedfordi van Emden, 1940; Atherigona (Atherigona) campestris Deeming, 1971; Atherigona (Acritochaeta) cogani ...
Mokome M. J. Magoai   +2 more
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Kangaraneus, a new genus of orb-weaving spider from Australia (Araneae, Araneidae) [PDF]

open access: yesZoosystematics and Evolution, 2023
A new Australian genus in the orb-weaving spider family Araneidae Clerck, 1757 is described, Kangaraneus gen. nov., with K. arenaceus (Keyserling, 1886) comb. nov. (New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria and Western Australia) as the type
Pedro de S. Castanheira   +1 more
doaj   +3 more sources

Identification of free amino acids (FAA) that are important as major intracellular osmolytes in the estuarine Hong Kong oyster, Crassostrea hongkongensis

open access: yesAquaculture Reports, 2023
Crassostrea hongkongensis (Hong Kong oyster), a commercially valuable bivalve thriving in the estuaries along the northern coast of the South China Sea, is threatened by the increase of salinity during the dry season. It is essential to improve its hyper-
Xinyu Song   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

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