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Plasticity in climate change responses
Biological Reviews, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Recent research has shown that climate change can both induce and modulate the expression of plastic traits but our understanding of the role of phenotypic plasticity as an adaptive response to climate change is limited. In this review, we dissect the mechanisms and impact of phenotypic plasticity as a response to accumulating climatic ...
Angelika Stollewerk +18 more
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Small-scale intraspecific life history variation in herbivorous spider mites (Tetranychus pacificus) is associated with host plant cultivar. [PDF]
, 2013 Life history variation is a general feature of arthropod systems, but is rarely included in models of field or laboratory data. Most studies assume that local processes occur identically across individuals, ignoring any genetic or phenotypic variation in
de Valpine, Perry +3 more
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PLoS ONE, 2013 Diapause is a common feature in several arthropod species that are subject to unfavorable growing seasons. The range of environmental cues that trigger the onset and termination of diapause, in addition to associated hormonal, biochemical, and molecular ...
S. Khodayari +4 more
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Ants do not prey upon an extrafloral‐nectar‐feeding predatory mite
Ecological Entomology, EarlyView.The predatory mite Amblyseius herbicolus is an important natural enemy of various crop pests and occurs in agroforestry coffee systems, where it feeds on the extrafloral nectar of Inga trees. Because extrafloral nectaries are often vigorously defended by ants, we tested whether ants would attack and kill the mites near nectaries.
Rafael Stempniak Iasczczaki +6 more
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Spider mites may damage drought-stressed corn [PDF]
, 2007 Minor spider mite injury is being found in scattered locations across Iowa in soybeans, but no injury has yet been reported in corn. Some areas, particularly in northwestern Iowa, are under drought stress and these fields also may develop economic ...
Rice, Marlin E.
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PATHS TO OTHERS: THE NOMADIC SUBJECT IN INGEBORG BACHMANN'S ‘SIMULTAN’ AND ‘DREI WEGE ZUM SEE’
German Life and Letters, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article explores two stories by Ingeborg Bachmann, ‘Simultan’ and ‘Drei Wege zum See’, both of which feature in the 1972 short‐story collection Simultan. Both stories deal with successful professional women, and both address communication and representation: Nadja in ‘Simultan’ is an interpreter; Elisabeth in ‘Drei Wege’ is a ...
Emily Jeremiah
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BMC Genomics, 2013 BackgroundDiapause or developmental arrest, is one of the major adaptations that allows mites and insects to survive unfavorable conditions. Diapause evokes a number of physiological, morphological and molecular modifications.
Astrid Bryon +4 more
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Insect Conservation and Diversity, EarlyView.We reviewed 75 meta‐analyses examining the effects of global change stressors on insects. We found that most global change stressors harm insects, with pesticides having the highest proportion of negative effects. Global change more frequently caused harm to higher trophic levels and beneficial insects, whereas herbivores were less often harmed.
Mayra C. Vidal +11 more
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The sejugal furrow in camel spiders and acariform mites
Arachnologische Mitteilungen, 2012 Camel spiders (Arachnida: Solifugae) are one of the arachnid groups characterised by a prosomal dorsal shield composed of three distinct elements: the pro-, meso- and metapeltidium. These are associated respectively with prosomal appendages one to four, five, and six.
Dunlop, Jason A. +2 more
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Environmental Entomology, 2013 Inherited bacteria Wolbachia, and more recently Cardinium, have received a great deal of attention for their ability to manipulate the reproduction and fitness of their host species.
Dongxiao Zhao, Xiang-Fei Zhang, X. Hong
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