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Developmental Plasticity and the Evolutionary Rescue of a Colonizing Mite

Evolution &Development, Volume 27, Issue 1, March 2025.
The study investigates the role of plasticity in small populations during evolutionary rescue, using the bulb mite Rhizoglyphus robini. It explores whether phenotype dynamics of colonizing populations comprising only dispersers (deutonymphs) are due to a selective process (plasticity exposing genetic variation) or a generative process (developmental ...
Kathryn A. Stewart, Isabel M. Smallegange   +1 more
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A new species group of the genus Epicauta Dejean of Southern South America, the bella group (Coleoptera: Meloidae) [PDF]

, 2011
Epicauta (Coleoptera: Meloideae) includes two subgenera, and within the nominotypical subgenus several species groups. Analyzing species of southern South America, a set of species of Epicauta has the particularity to present two distinctive characters ...
Campos Soldini, Maria Paula
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Effects of microarthropod density on soil fungal community composition in nutrient‐poor ecosystems

Functional Ecology, Volume 39, Issue 2, Page 432-445, February 2025.
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. Abstract Microarthropods such as mites (Acari) and springtails (Collembola) play a key role in the functioning of nutrient‐poor ecosystems. They contribute to the comminution of organic matter and they are likely to affect the structure and function of soil microbial communities
Andrés A. Salazar‐Fillippo, Willem‐Jan Emsens, Seppe Strybos, Charlotte Liczner, Ladislav Miko, Jan Frouz, Erik Verbruggen, Rudy van Diggelen   +7 more
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The Invasive Spider Badumna longinqua (L. Koch, 1867) (Araneae: Desidae) in Argentina: New Distributional Records, with Notes on its Expansion and Establishment [PDF]

, 2013
Badumna longinqua (L. Koch 1867) is a medium-sized spider native from Australia. Due to its synanthropic habitat, this spider expanded their range distribution, reaching Germany, Japan, New Zealand, Uruguay and USA.
Peralta, Luciano, Pompozzi, Gabriel Alejandro, Simó, Miguel   +2 more
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Experimental manipulation of nest temperature and relative humidity reduces ectoparasites and affects body condition of Blue Tits (Cyanistes caeruleus)

Ibis, Volume 167, Issue 1, Page 212-224, January 2025.
Many models predict changes in the distribution and incidence of diseases associated with climate change. However, studies exploring the effect of microclimatic changes on host–parasite relationships are scarce. In this study, we increased temperature or humidity in Eurasian Blue Tit Cyanistes caeruleus nestboxes during the breeding season, to analyse ...
Marina García‐del Río, Alejandro Cantarero, Francisco Castaño‐Vázquez, Yago Merino, Javier García‐Velasco, Santiago Merino   +5 more
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Relations between free-living nematodes and dung-burying Geotrupes spp. (Coleoptera : Geotrupini) [PDF]

, 1996
La faune nématologique dans plus de 300 ballots couvés des coléoptères #Geotrupes spiniger$ et #G. vernalis$ et la biologie des insectes ont été étudiées. La succession des espèces de nématodes dans neuf ballots couvés de #G.
Kühne, R.
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Meloe (Mesomeloe) coelatus Reiche, 1857 (Coleoptera: Meloidae): first record for the fauna of Qatar and COI mtDNA data [PDF]

, 2013
We report the discovery of the blister beetle, Meloe coelatus Reiche, 1957, in Qatar. According to the Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera there is no record for the genus Meloe in Qatar, although the genus is well represented in other areas of the ...
Castilla, Aurora M., García-París, Mario, Jiménez-Ruiz, Yolanda, Ruiz, J. L., Saifelnasr, Essam O.H.   +4 more
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Avian Afterlives: Integrative Taxonomy of Hippoboscid Flies (Diptera) From Citizen‐Reported Bird Carcasses Reveals a New Species and Host–Parasite Diversity in Singapore

Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research, Volume 2025, Issue 1, 2025.
Biodiversity science depends on rigorous characterization of species diversity and ecological roles, yet the ecology of many invertebrate species remains virtually unknown. One pragmatic way to change this is to make use of deceased animals and their companions, such as by salvaging and examining carcasses reported by citizen scientists.
Leshon Lee, Jozef Oboňa, Yu Xuan Lee, Karyn T. Lee, Jayanthi Puniamoorthy, Leo Y. K. Tan, Ruirong Choo, David J. X. Tan, Mackenzie Kwak, Yuchen Ang, Rudolf Meier, Yuzine Esa   +11 more
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Phenology determines seasonal variation in ectoparasite loads in a natural insect population [PDF]

, 2010
1. The extent to which individuals are parasitised is a function of exposure to parasites and the immune response, which in ectotherms may be associated with temperature. 2.
Andrés, Anholt, Banks, Banks, Banks, Blumberg, Bonn, Braune, Conrad, Dingemanse, Feder, Fellowes, Flanders, Forbes, Forbes, Forbes, Forbes, Godfray, Harris, Harvey, Hassall, Hickling, Hu, Hughes, Imamura, Inglis, Johansson, Joop, Joop, Knight, Kurtz, Lajeunesse, Linder, Lowe, Martens, McKee, Mitchell, Nagel, Pritchard, Robb, Robb, Rolff, Rolff, Rolff, Rolff, Rolff, Rolff, Rolff, Råberg, Schmid-Hempl, Sheldon, Sheridan, Sigsgaard, Siva-Jothy, Smith, Smith, Stechmann, Stoehr, Thomas, Thompson, Thompson, Thompson, Vale, Visser, Winder, Yourth, Yourth, Zawal, Åbro   +68 more
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Commodity risk assessment of debarked conifer wood chips fumigated with sulfuryl fluoride from the US

EFSA Journal, Volume 23, Issue 1, January 2025.
Abstract The European Commission requested the EFSA Panel on Plant Health to deliver a risk assessment on the likelihood of pest freedom from regulated EU quarantine pests, with emphasis on Bursaphelenchus xylophilus and its vectors Monochamus spp. of debarked conifer wood chips fumigated with sulfuryl fluoride as proposed by the United States (US) and
EFSA Panel on Plant Health (PLH), Antonio Vicent Civera, Paula Baptista, Anna Berlin, Elisavet Chatzivassiliou, Jaime Cubero, Nik Cunniffe, Eduardo de la Peña, Nicolas Desneux, Francesco Di Serio, Anna Filipiak, Beata Hasiow‐Jaroszewska, Hervé Jactel, Blanca Landa, Lara Maistrello, David Makowski, Panagiotis Milonas, Nikos T. Papadopoulos, Roel Potting, Hanna Susi, Dirk Jan Van Der Gaag, Andrea Battisti, Claude Bragard, Christer Magnusson, Hugo Mas, Daniel Rigling, Massimo Faccoli, Alžběta Mikulová, Fabio Stergulc, Eugen Christoph, Olaf Mosbach‐Schulz, Franz Streissl, Paolo Gonthier   +32 more
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