Seeing Through an Ant's Eyes: Do Entomopathogenic Fungi Extend Their Cognition to Their Hosts?
Abstract Post‐cognitivist approaches recognize cognition as a phenomenon that involves not just brains but all the sensorimotor apparatus of organisms. This means that brains are not always required for the emergence of cognition and that every organism can, in principle, be cognitive, unlocking a theoretical framework to explain the complex adaptive ...
André Geremia Parise +2 more
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Asynchronous seasonal dynamics of nycteribiid bat flies and Bartonella spp. in Australian flying foxes (Pteropus spp.). [PDF]
Jones BD +13 more
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Abstract BACKGROUND The control of fungal diseases in organic fruit production remains a major challenge due to the limited availability of authorized phytosanitary tools. This study evaluates the efficacy of two antagonistic yeasts – Metschnikowia pulcherrima L672 and Hanseniaspora uvarum L793 – in organic peach ( Prunus persica ) and plum ( Prunus ...
Paula Tejero +5 more
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Leech Diversity in the Maghreb (North Africa): A Checklist and a Case Report of Parasitism on a Berber Toad (<i>Sclerophys mauritanica</i>) in Algeria. [PDF]
Rabah-Sidhoum N +6 more
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Abstract This case report describes pituitary abscess syndrome (PAS) in a 20‐month‐old Blonde d'Aquitaine heifer with cranial nerve deficits (V, VII, VIII, IX, X and XII) associated with facial hemiparesis, head tilt, ataxia and dysphagia, pneumonia and otitis interna.
Chloé Saada +4 more
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The role of hormones in parasitic plant infection. [PDF]
van Wüllen AK +4 more
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ABSTRACT Four new species of Ibaloniinae harvestmen are described from the Solomon Islands, Melanesia. Based on the original diagnosis of Euibalonius Roewer, 1915, and description of E. maculatus (Roewer, 1915), this material appeared related to that genus. However, examination of syntype photographs of the type species E.
Adriano B. Kury +4 more
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First report of natural parasitism by <i>Telenomus remus</i> Nixon, 1937 on <i>Spodoptera latifascia</i> Walker, 1856 eggs in Puerto Rico: insights into spatial-temporal dynamics in a semiarid tropical region. [PDF]
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ABSTRACT The Chalcididae comprises parasitoid wasps that attack various invertebrate groups. Within the family, some Brachymeria species specialises in infecting pupae of Lepidoptera. Here, we quantitatively describe the relationship between Brachymeria pandora and the Southern Monarch butterfly, Danaus erippus, in urban areas of Cuiabá, Mato Grosso ...
Wenrique Verza, Alan Eriksson
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Parasitic Recognition Behavior of Telenomus remus Nixon, an Important Egg Parasitoid of Spodoptera frugiperda (J. E. Smith). [PDF]
Ma X +6 more
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