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Pesticides and Soil Invertebrates: A Hazard Assessment
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
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
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Terebra steering in chalcidoid wasps
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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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]
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.
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Vibrio harveyi: a serious pathogen of fish and invertebrates in mariculture
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
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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
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A contribution to the Atherigona (Diptera, Muscidae) fauna of Angola [PDF]
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]
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
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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
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