Novel Worker-Like Behavior Observed in Gynes of the Social Parasite <i>Tetramorium microgyna</i>. [PDF]
Brassard F, Kwapich C.
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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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Caste-Dependent Interspecific Tolerance Permits Alien Reproductives to Reproduce Within Host Colonies in Reticulitermes Termites Under Laboratory Conditions. [PDF]
Bai ZD +3 more
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Clinical and computed tomography findings of fatal poxviral vasculitis in a domestic shorthair cat
Abstract This report describes the clinical presentation, haematological abnormalities and imaging findings of systemic poxvirus infection in a cat that resulted in widespread severe dermal oedema and systemic inflammatory response syndrome. The cat lacked cutaneous lesions before the onset of dermal oedema, but developed crusting skin lesions and a ...
Mica Taylor +5 more
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Infestation dynamics of <i>Hygrobates</i> (sg. <i>Lurchibates</i>) <i>aloisii</i> (Acari: Hygrobatidae) and host-parasite interactions with Hong Kong newts (<i>Paramesotriton hongkongensis</i>). [PDF]
Yip G, Goldschmidt T, Lau A.
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ABSTRACT Three categories of explanations exist for why we age: mechanistic theories, which omit reference to evolutionary forces; weakening force of selection theories, which posit that barriers exist that prevent evolutionary forces from optimising fitness in ageing; and optimisation theories, which posit that evolutionary forces actually select for ...
Michael S. Ringel
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The Box Bug <i>Gonocerus acuteangulatus</i> (Hemiptera: Coreidae) and Its Egg Parasitoids: Updates on Biocontrol in a Hazelnut Producing Area in Southern Italy. [PDF]
Tortorici S +7 more
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ABSTRACT Amphibians are the most threatened vertebrate class globally. Climate change, agrochemicals, and/or pathogens and parasites are implicated in contributing to amphibian declines, either singly or in combination. We investigated individual and combined effects of elevated temperatures and atrazine (2.0 μg/L) on Lithobates [formerly Rana] pipiens
Melody J. Gavel +7 more
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