Taxonomic Structure and Wing Pattern Evolution in the Parnassius mnemosyne Species Complex (Lepidoptera, Papilionidae) [PDF]
Insects, 2023 In our study, using the analysis of DNA barcodes and morphology (wing color, male genitalia, and female sphragis shape), we show that the group of species close to P. mnemosyne comprises the western and eastern phylogenetic lineages.
Vladimir A. Lukhtanov +1 more
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Phenotypic senescence in a natural insect population. [PDF]
Ecol Evol, 2022 Phenotypic senescence is a largely understudied component of senescence in natural insect populations. In a wild Clouded Apollo population investigated by us, both body mass and thorax width declined nonlinearly with age. Individuals appearing earlier in the flight period had significantly higher initial body mass and thorax width, and their body mass ...
Pásztor K +5 more
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Mate‐guarding success depends on male investment in a butterfly [PDF]
Ecology and Evolution, 2023 Males of many insects, including butterflies, produce mate‐guarding devices, such as mating plugs, to prolong guarding and prevent future female matings in the male's absence.
Ádám Gór +5 more
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La sphragís de las Metamorfosis de Ovidio (XV 871-879). Metempsicosis, apoteosis y perdurabilidad literaria [PDF]
Emerita, 2016 La predicción que de su propia inmortalidad hace Ovidio en la sphragís de las Metamorfosis ha sido entendida como una última transformación equiparable, por su dualismo, a la metempsicosis y a la apoteosis.
Antonio Río Torres-Murciano
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A review of the occurrence and diversity of the sphragis in butterflies (Lepidoptera, Papilionoidea) [PDF]
ZooKeys, 2017 Males of many butterfly species secrete long-lasting mating plugs to prevent their mates from copulating with other males, thus ensuring their sperm will fertilize all future eggs laid.
Ana Paula S. Carvalho +2 more
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Beneficial modulation of the gut microbiome by leachates of Penicillium purpurogenum in the presence of clays: A model for the preparation and efficacy of historical Lemnian Earth. [PDF]
PLoS ONEThe experiments presented here are based on the reconfiguration of an ancient medicine, Lemnian Earth (LE) (terra sigillata, stamped earth, sphragis), an acclaimed therapeutic clay with a 2500-year history of use.
Simon Milling +10 more
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The Sphragis of Heliodorus, Genealogy in the Aithiopika, and Julian’s Hymn to King Helios
Ágora, 2012 This article analyses the final sentence of Heliodorosʹs Aithiopika as a sphragis - an autobiographical statement by the author. Heliodoros here stresses his descent from Helios, as one of characters in the romance, Persinna, also does.
J. L. Hilton
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Ciceroniana On Line, 2018 This paper seeks to examine the existential significance of the description of place in Cicero’s works. Descriptions of the locations in which philosophical dialogues are set serve more than an ornamental function, adding an essential element to the ...
Valentina Calcò
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Avtorski »pečat« in umetnostni ekskluzivizem v antični poeziji
Ars & Humanitas, 2014 Literarni zgodovinarji izraz sphragis, »pečat«, pogosto uporabljajo v pomenu avtorskega »podpisa«, ki je vključen v besedilo – ne kot informativni paratekst, temveč kot vdor empirične resničnosti v literarno delo.
Marko Marinčič
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“Iambic persona” in Hipponax: the case of the supplicant’s mask [PDF]
, 2018 El objetivo del presente trabajo es examinar los modos en que el ‘yo’ se manifiesta en la poesía yámbica de Hiponacte de Éfeso (s. VI a. C.) y sus posibles funciones dentro de la performance poética.
Carrizo, Sebastián Eduardo
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