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A New Method for Exposing Deposit Feeders to Contaminated Sediments for Food Chain Studies [PDF]

, 2017
(excerpt) The ubiquity and refractory nature of certain organic compounds, such as chlorinated pesticides and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB\u27s), results in their accumulation in aquatic sediments (Holdrinet et al. 1978, Peck et al.
Meier, Peter G, Roberts, Dale
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Emerging Threats to Animals in the United Kingdom by Arthropod-Borne Diseases

Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 2020
Worldwide, arthropod-borne disease transmission represents one of the greatest threats to public and animal health. For the British Isles, an island group on the north-western coast of continental Europe consisting of the United Kingdom (UK) and the ...
Arran J. Folly, Daniel Dorey-Robinson, Luis M. Hernández-Triana, L. Paul Phipps, Nicholas Johnson, Nicholas Johnson   +5 more
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THE GROWTH OF Tanypus punctipennis Meigen (DIPTERA, CHIRONOMIDAE) LARVAE IN LABORATORY CONDITIONS AND THE EFFECTS OF WATER TEMPERATURE AND pH

Trakya University Journal of Natural Sciences, 2018
Recent taxonomic studies suggest that findings of larval chironomids should be supported also by adult findings in order to obtain more robust and reliable results on the studied group.
Belgin Çamur-elipek, Gazel Burcu Aydın, Firuze Gülbunar   +2 more
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Novel brood-site pollination mutualism between sympetalous <i>Heterosmilax</i> (Smilacaceae, Liliales) and a cecidomyiid gall midge (Cecidomyiidae, Diptera) breeding in fallen male flowers. [PDF]

Zookeys
Heterosmilax is a unique dioecious genus of Smilacaceae (Liliales, Monocotyledon) in that both male and female flowers are sympetalous, ellipsoid, and almost closed. Our field observations in the Ryukyu Islands of Japan showed that H.
Kato M, Kawakita A.
europepmc   +4 more sources

Moist habitats are essential for adults of the Antarctic midge, Belgica antarctica (Diptera: Chironomidae), to avoid dehydration

European Journal of Entomology, 2007
Desiccation resistance of adult males and females of the midge, Belgica antarctica (Diptera: Chironomidae) was evaluated to determine how this short-lived stage maintains water balance in the dry Antarctic environment. Both sexes had slightly lower water
Joshua B. BENOIT, Giancarlo LOPEZ-MARTINEZ, Michael A. ELNITSKY, Richard E. LEE, David L. DENLINGER   +4 more
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Origin of Bluetongue Virus Serotype 8 Outbreak in Cyprus, September 2016

Viruses, 2020
In September 2016, clinical signs, indicative of bluetongue, were observed in sheep in Cyprus. Bluetongue virus serotype 8 (BTV-8) was detected in sheep, indicating the first incursion of this serotype into Cyprus. Following virus propagation, Nextera XT
Paulina Rajko-Nenow, Vasiliki Christodoulou, William Thurston, Honorata M. Ropiak, Savvas Savva, Hannah Brown, Mehnaz Qureshi, Konstantinos Alvanitopoulos, Simon Gubbins, John Flannery, Carrie Batten   +10 more
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A progressive change in the virulence spectrum of Asian rice gall midge (Orseolia oryzae) biotype 2 after a decade in Coastal Karnataka, India

Journal of Entomological and Acarological Research, 2022
Virulence composition of traditionally designated biotype 2 field population of Asian rice gall midge, Orseolia oryzae (Wood- Mason) (Cecidomyiidae: Diptera) was conducted a decade after in 2019 and 2020 at coastal Karnataka, India using three standard ...
L. Vijaykumar, B. Shivanna, S.U. Patil, C.N.L. Reddy, M.S. Kitturmath   +4 more
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Long-range Acoustic Interactions in Insect Swarms: An Adaptive Gravity Model [PDF]

, 2015
The collective motion of groups of animals emerges from the net effect of the interactions between individual members of the group. In many cases, such as birds, fish, or ungulates, these interactions are mediated by sensory stimuli that predominantly ...
Gorbonos, Dan, Gov, Nir S., Ianconescu, Reuven, Ni, Rui, Ouellette, Nicholas T., Puckett, James G.   +5 more
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Aquatic silk proteins in Chironomus: A review

Journal of Limnology, 2018
Silk proteins secreted by salivary glands in the dipteran insect, Chironomus play a significant role as proteinaceous adhesives for construction of underwater housing nests by larvae. To date, only three Chironomus species, C.
Leena J. Thorat, Bimalendu B. Nath
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Exploitation of Hybrid Vigor for Identification of Promising Sorghum F1 Hybrid for High Grain Yield and Resistance to Sorghum Midge

International Journal of Agronomy, 2020
Sorghum is the second most grown cereal crop in Niger. However, sorghum production in the country is dominated by indigenous cultivars with low productivity.
Massaoudou Hamidou, Oumarou Souleymane, Mahamadou Salifou, Malick N. Ba, Issoufou Kapran, Vernon Gracen, Kwado Ofori, Eric Yirenkyi Danquah   +7 more
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