Frontiers in Physiology, 2021 Tick salivary glands produce and secrete a variety of compounds that modulate host responses and ensure a successful blood meal. Despite great progress made in the identification of ticks salivary compounds in recent years, there is still a paucity of ...
Jose Reck +8 more
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Plant structural complexity and mechanical defenses mediate predator-prey interactions in an odonate-bird system. [PDF]
, 2017 Habitat-forming species provide refuges for a variety of associating species; these refuges may mediate interactions between species differently depending on the functional traits of the habitat-forming species.
Grof-Tisza, Patrick +3 more
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Review of the Genus \u3ci\u3eMacdunnoa\u3c/i\u3e (Ephemeroptera: Heptageniidae) with Description of a New Species From Florida [PDF]
, 2017 The imago, nymph, and egg of Macdunnaa brunnea n. sp. are described from the south- eastern U.S. Heptagenia persimpiex is transferred to Macdunnoa and additional diagonostic characters are given for this species and for Macdunnoa nipawinia.
Flowers, R. W
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Cues of maternal condition influence offspring selfishness. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 The evolution of parent-offspring communication was mostly studied from the perspective of parents responding to begging signals conveying information about offspring condition.
Janine W Y Wong +2 more
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How do Cicadas Emerge Together? Thermophysical Aspects of Their Collective Decision-Making [PDF]
arXiv, 2023 Certain periodical cicadas exhibit life cycles with durations of 13 or 17 years, and it is now generally accepted that such large prime numbers arise evolutionarily to avoid synchrony with predators. Less well explored is the question of how, in the face of intrinsic biological and environmental noise, insects within a brood emerge together in large ...
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Ecomorphological diversification of the Late Palaeozoic Palaeodictyopterida reveals different larval strategies and amphibious lifestyle in adults [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2019 The Late Palaeozoic insect superorder Palaeodictyopterida exhibits a remarkable disparity of larval ecomorphotypes, enabling these animals to occupy diverse ecological niches.
Jakub Prokop +6 more
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Les Nymphes dans les rites du mariage
Cahiers Mondes Anciens, 2011 Marriage, where the Nymphs appear both as supernatural powers and as human numphai, is a rich intersection of literary, archaeological and epigraphic data concerning the cult of the Nymphs.
Sébastien Dalmon
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Rediscovery of \u3ci\u3eAcanthametropus Pecatonica\u3c/i\u3e in the Western Great Lakes Region (Ephemeroptera: Siphlonuridae) [PDF]
, 2017 Two nearly mature nymphs of Acanthametropus pecatonica were collected in June 1986 from the shifting sand bottom of the lower Wisconsin River. This is the first known collection of this species in the western Great Lakes region since the original ...
Hilsenhoff, William L +2 more
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Bottom mixed layer oxygen dynamics in the Celtic Sea [PDF]
, 2020 The seasonally stratified continental shelf seas are highly productive, economically important environments which are under considerable pressure from human activity.
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Description of the immature stages of the planthopper Lacertinella australis (Hemiptera: Delphacidae) [PDF]
, 2014 The five immature stages of the planthopper Lacertinella australis(Remes Lenicov and Rossi Batiz) (Hemiptera: Delphacidae: Saccharosydnini) are described and illustrated. The main characters that al-lowed us to distinguish the various
Marino, Ana Maria +1 more
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