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Isopod distribution and climate change [PDF]
ZooKeys, 2018 The unique properties of terrestrial isopods regarding responses to limiting factors such as drought and temperature have led to interesting distributional patterns along climatic and other environmental gradients at both species and community level ...
Spyros Sfenthourakis, Elisabeth Hornung
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A checklist of isopods (Crustacea: Isopoda) in Slovenia [PDF]
Natura Sloveniae, 2023 Isopods are a diverse peracarid crustacean group with marine, freshwater and terrestrial representatives. Isopod species lists were typically prepared according to different habitats, which was true also for Slovenia. Here, we prepared the first unified
Miloš Vittori +4 more
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Antipredatory strategies of terrestrial isopods [PDF]
ZooKeys, 2022 Terrestrial isopods (Oniscidea) represent a widespread group of land Crustacea that have been able to successfully adapt to the terrestrial environment and occupy newly formed ecological niches. During the colonisation of land, they faced numerous challenges, including finding an effective way to avoid their new terrestrial predators.
Ivan Hadrián Tuf, Barbora Ďurajková
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A Cost of Reproduction in a Terrestrial Isopod [PDF]
Evolution, 1983 Species that reproduce repeatedly over their lifetimes typically allocate energy to both their reproductive activities and their non-reproductive, somatic activities. Fisher (1930) first posed the evolutionary problem of understanding not merely the physiological mechanism of this energy allocation, but also the ultimate question of how the allocation ...
Michael S, Brody +2 more
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Nature, 1961 IN crustaceans the hepatopancreas is the main organ of enzyme production. In isopods this organ consists of two types of cells which differ in size and were first distinguished by Weber1. This author observed in the smaller cells dense clumps of yellowish granules which became the subject of some controversy.
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Intersexuality in a natural population of the terrestrial isopod Porcellio scaber [PDF]
ZooKeys, 2022 Intersex phenotypes are rarely observed in natural isopod populations and their expression is typically associated with infection of Wolbachia, a reproductive parasite that manipulates arthropod reproduction.
Jens Zarka +2 more
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Terrestrial isopods in urban environments: an overview [PDF]
ZooKeys, 2018 In an increasingly urbanized world scientific research has shifted towards the understanding of cities as unique ecosystems. Urban land use change results in rapid and drastic changes in physical and biological properties, including that of biodiversity ...
Katalin Szlavecz +3 more
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Parasitism of the isopod Riggia puyensis Rodríguez-Haro et al. in two armored catfish from Pastaza Province (Ecuador) [PDF]
Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências, 2019 : Riggia puyensis, an ectoparasitic isopod, was collected in juvenile Chaetostoma breve and Chaetostoma microps host specimens from the Amazonian region of Ecuador. The aim of this work is to study the possible injury that the parasite causes in its host.
SILVIA E. PLAUL +3 more
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Predation by Terrestrial Isopods
The Florida Entomologist, 1974 Fifty of each sex of two species of terrestrial isopods, Armadillidium vulgare and Porcellio laevis, were each offered 16 live pupae, four each of Drosophilia hydei, D. immigrans, D. pseudoobscura and D. melanogaster, for 24 hr. Both sexes of both predator species fed on all prey species, each predator species taking numbers of prey species in the ...
Edney, E.B., Allen, W., McFarlane, J.
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Acta Scientiarum: Biological Sciences, 2011 White mullet is a commercial fish species abundant in the coastal waters of Brazil. This study investigated the occurrence of crustacean ectoparasites on white mullet, Mugil curema captured from the littoral waters of Rio Grande do Norte State, Brazil ...
Elizete Teresinha Santos Cavalcanti +4 more
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