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The pace and shape of ant ageing

Biological Reviews, Volume 100, Issue 5, Page 2071-2083, October 2025.
ABSTRACT Ants have been proposed as good models to study ageing and the effects of extrinsic mortality because of their long lifespans and plasticity of ageing within species. We discuss how age‐dependent extrinsic mortality might influence queen lifespan, and how the effect of age‐independent extrinsic mortality needs further study, accounting for ...
Luisa M. Jaimes‐Nino, Jan Oettler
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Predictions of Future Insect Distributions Under Climate Change

Diversity and Distributions, Volume 31, Issue 10, October 2025.
ABSTRACT Aim Climate change has severe consequences for insects worldwide, many of which play key ecological roles. Despite a large literature predicting insect distribution changes over future climate change, a synthesis of predictions of insect responses to climate change in the literature is still lacking. Location Global.
Olivia K. Bates, Cleo Bertelsmeier
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Using fecal DNA metabarcoding to investigate the animal diet of black rails, yellow rails, and soras

Wildlife Society Bulletin, Volume 49, Issue 3, September 2025.
We used fecal DNA metabarcoding to investigate the diet of yellow rails, Eastern black rails, and sora during the non‐breeding season. Arthropods, particularly ants, were prevalent in their diets, suggesting possible interactions with invasive red imported fire ants.
Christopher J. Butler, Tabitha W. Olsen, Susan B. McRae, Meriam N. Saleh, Matthew Parks   +4 more
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A newly recorded species of the genus Lopaphus Westwood, 1859 (Phasmida: Lonchodidae: Necrosciinae) from China [PDF]

Journal of Insect Biodiversity and Systematics
One species of Lopaphus (Phasmida: Lonchodidae: Necrosciinae), namely L. sphalerus (Redtenbacher, 1908), is reported from China for the first time. The identification of this species is primarily based on female morphological characters: cerci triangular,
Yanting Qin, Qianwen Zhang, Xun Bian
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Multiple hybridization events and repeated evolution of homoeologue expression bias in parthenogenetic, polyploid New Zealand stick insects

Molecular Ecology, Volume 34, Issue 15, August 2025.
Abstract During hybrid speciation, homoeologues combine in a single genome. Homoeologue expression bias (HEB) occurs when one homoeologue has higher gene expression than another. HEB has been well characterized in plants but rarely investigated in animals, especially invertebrates.
Seung‐Sub Choi, Ann Mc Cartney, Duckchul Park, Hester Roberts, Talia Brav‐Cubitt, Caroline Mitchell, Thomas R. Buckley   +6 more
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Combined Molecular Phylogenetic Analysis of the Orthoptera (Arthropoda, Insecta) and Implications for Their Higher Systematics [PDF]

, 2017
A phylogenetic analysis of mitochondrial and nuclear rDNA sequences from species of all the superfamilies of the insect order Orthoptera (grasshoppers, crickets, and relatives) confirmed that although mitochondrial sequences provided good resolution of ...
Flook, P. K., Klee, S., Rowell, C. H. F., Simon, C.   +3 more
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Observational evidence that maladaptive gene flow reduces patch occupancy in a wild insect metapopulation [PDF]

, 2016
Theory predicts that dispersal throughout metapopulations has a variety of consequences for the abundance and distribution of species. Immigration is predicted to increase abundance and habitat patch occupancy, but gene flow can have both positive and ...
Alleaume-Benharira, Amarasekare, Bailey, Barton, Bassar, Becks, Bolnick, Bolnick, Bowler, Bridle, Bridle, Cenzer, Comeault, Comeault, Comeault, Crutsinger, del Mar Delgado, Dormann, Emery, Farkas, Farkas, Feder, Fedorka, Fox, Garant, Gompert, Hairston, Haldane, Hanski, Hanski, Hanski, Hanski, Hanski, Hanski, Harmon, Hendry, Hiltunen, Ingvarsson, Johnson, Kawecki, Keller, Kirkpatrick, Kovach, Kubisch, Mayr, McBride, McPeek, Moeller, Moore, Moore, Morjan, Nosil, Nosil, Nosil, Nosil, Nosil, Nosil, Ozgul, Pantel, Paul, Peck, Pelletier, Polechová, Postma, Riechert, Ronce, Sandoval, Sandoval, Sandoval, Sandoval, Schoener, Sexton, Soria-Carrasco, Storfer, Swindell, Turcotte, Urban, Urban, Valen, Wynne, Yoshida, Zeileis   +81 more
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Biological Flora of Britain and Ireland: Cytisus scoparius*

Journal of Ecology, Volume 113, Issue 7, Page 1877-1933, July 2025.
Broom is an attractive and common native plant across Britain, Ireland and most of Europe, and yet it is considered a harmful and invasive weed around the rest of the world. This is aided by broom thriving on poor dry soils, helped by using green stems for photosynthesis and having root nodules to fix nitrogen.
Peter A. Thomas, Monika Dering, Grzegorz Iszkuło, Marta Kujawska, Adrian Łukowski, Mariola Rabska, Katarzyna Sękiewicz, Dominik Tomaszewski, Łukasz Walas, Marian J. Giertych   +9 more
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The effect of size on mate selection, fecundity and survival in Culex pipiens mosquitoes

Physiological Entomology, Volume 50, Issue 2, Page 204-215, June 2025.
Larval diet affects male and female adult size, female fecundity and female survival. Large non‐blood–fed females lived longer than small non‐blood–fed females. Mate size did not influence mating rate (insemination status). Even though larger females are more fit, males mated equally to large and small females when given the option. Blood feeding has a
Susan Villarreal, Amelia Senior, Matthew Price   +2 more
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Adhesion Performance in the Eggs of the Philippine Leaf Insect Phyllium Philippinicum (Phasmatodea: Phylliidae) [PDF]

, 2020
Leaf insects (Phasmatodea: Phylliidae) exhibit perfect crypsis imitating leaves. Although the special appearance of the eggs of the species Phyllium philippinicum, which imitate plant seeds, has received attention in different taxonomic studies, the ...
Büscher, Thies Henning, Gorb, Stanislav, Quigley, Elise   +2 more
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