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American Journal of Botany, Volume 110, Issue 10, October 2023., 2023 Abstract Premise What maintains mixed mating is an evolutionary enigma. Cleistogamy—the production of both potentially outcrossing chasmogamous and obligately selfing cleistogamous flowers on the same individual plant—is an excellent system to study the costs of selfing.
Tatyana Y. Soto +2 more
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Thirty years of slug control using the parasitic nematode Phasmarhabditis hermaphrodita and beyond
Pest Management Science, Volume 79, Issue 10, Page 3408-3424, October 2023., 2023 The nematode Phasmarhabditis hermaphrodita is a parasite of slugs and snails and has been formulated into a biological control agent for use across northern Europe since 1994. Here, we review all research on P. hermaphrodita that has been carried out over the last 30 years and suggest future priorities.
Robbie Rae +2 more
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Journal of the World Aquaculture Society, Volume 54, Issue 5, Page 1247-1259, October 2023., 2023 Abstract Bolbophorus damnificus is a digenetic trematode causing significant economic losses within the United States commercial catfish industry. The indirect life cycle is complex, requiring piscivorous birds, aquatic snails, and fish to complete.
Bradley M. Richardson +6 more
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The evolution of reproductive isolation in a simultaneous hermaphrodite, the freshwater snail
BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2011 Background The cosmopolitan freshwater snail Physa acuta has recently found widespread use as a model organism for the study of mating systems and reproductive allocation.
Lydeard Charles +2 more
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Ecology and Evolution, Volume 13, Issue 9, September 2023., 2023 In response to uncertain risks, prey may rely on neophobic phenotypes to reduce the costs associated with the lack of information regarding local conditions. We conducted an in situ field experiment of two high‐risk guppy populations designed to determine how the ‘average’ and ‘variance’ of several environmental factors might influence the neophobic ...
Laurence E. A. Feyten +2 more
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Science of the Total Environment, 2021 Contamination of the environment by pharmaceutical pollutants poses an increasingly critical threat to aquatic ecosystems around the world. This is particularly true of psychoactive compounds, such as antidepressant drugs, which have become ubiquitous ...
J. Henry +5 more
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Novel environments induce variability in fitness‐related traits
Ecology and Evolution, Volume 13, Issue 6, June 2023., 2023 Snails expressed much greater variability in specific growth rates in novel, transplanted sites relative to their natal site (a; p < .001). Populations expressed moderately higher variability in aperture area in novel sites relative to their natal site (b; p ≤ .020) and no difference in variability in aperture shape (ratio of aperture width to aperture
Arielle W. Balph, Amy C. Krist
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Brazilian Journal of Biology, 2021 Physids belong to Class Gastropoda; Phylum Mollusca have important position in food web and act as bio indicators, pests and intermediate host. Being resistant these are called cockroaches of malacology.
S. Aziz +14 more
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Caldasia, 2023 The sewage snail Physa acuta has invaded several countries worldwide. Its presence in Chile was first reported in 2014. Recently, this species was recorded for the first time in the Bullileo Reservoir, central Chile, in association with the oligochaete ...
Gonzalo A. Collado, Karina P. Aguayo
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On the use of antibiotics in plasticity research: Gastropod shells unveil a tale of caution
Journal of Animal Ecology, Volume 92, Issue 5, Page 1055-1064, May 2023., 2023 This study investigates the invasive cosmopolitan gastropod Physella acuta, an established plasticity model system. Its results highlight that antibiotic treatment has the potential to uncover a larger extent of risk‐induced morphological antipredator plasticity but might counterintuitively distort plasticity estimates for natural populations where ...
Denis Meuthen, Klaus Reinhold
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