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Peptide Toxins in Solitary Wasp Venoms

Toxins, 2016
Solitary wasps paralyze insects or spiders with stinging venom and feed the paralyzed preys to their larva. Accordingly, the venoms should contain a variety of constituents acting on nervous systems.
Katsuhiro Konno, Kohei Kazuma, Ken-ichi Nihei   +2 more
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‘Enthusiasts’ and ‘Fanatics’: The Decembrists as a Case Study in French Influence on Russian Culture, Emotions and Thought

History, EarlyView.
Abstract Participants in Russia's 1825 Decembrist uprising against the Tsarist regime were, quite literally, a case study in French cultural influence upon Russia. This is particularly true as it relates to Russia's emotional cultures. Although this has not, traditionally, been the primary focus of historical analysis of this event (in Soviet or ...
ADAM COKER
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Two Novel Mosquitocidal Peptides Isolated from the Venom of the Bahia Scarlet Tarantula (Lasiodora klugi)

Toxins, 2023
Effective control of diseases transmitted by Aedes aegypti is primarily achieved through vector control by chemical insecticides. However, the emergence of insecticide resistance in A. aegypti undermines current control efforts.
Jamila Ahmed, Andrew A. Walker, Hugo D. Perdomo, Shaodong Guo, Samantha A. Nixon, Irina Vetter, Hilary I. Okoh, Dalhatu M. Shehu, Mohammed N. Shuaibu, Iliya S. Ndams, Glenn F. King, Volker Herzig   +11 more
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Fighting the global pest problem: Preface to the special Toxicon issue on insecticidal toxins and their potential for insect pest control [PDF]

, 2007
Arthropod pests are responsible for major crop devastation and are vectors for the transmission of new and re-emerging diseases in humans and livestock.
Nicholson, GM
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The predatory behavior of ants: an impressive panoply of morphological adaptations

Insect Science, EarlyView.
This review focuses on predation in ants, showing the wide diversity of cases from solitary foraging to group hunting tactics, as well as the evolution of mandible shape frequently adapted to capture specific prey. Although most ants are generalist feeders, finding their sugary substances directly on plants or indirectly via sap‐sucking insects, some ...
Alain Dejean, Xim Cerdá, Jérôme Orivel, Frédéric Azémar, Alexander L. Wild, Bruno Corbara, Axel Touchard   +6 more
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Brazilian Theraphosidae: a toxicological point of view

Journal of Venomous Animals and Toxins including Tropical Diseases, 2021
The Theraphosidae family includes the largest number of species of the Mygalomorphae infraorder, with hundreds of species currently catalogued. However, there is a huge lack on physiologic and even ecologic information available, especially in Brazil ...
Keven Wender Rodrigues Macedo, Lucas Jeferson de Lima Costa, Jéssica Oliveira de Souza, Isadora Alves de Vasconcelos, Jessica Schneider de Castro, Carlos José Correia de Santana, Ana Carolina Martins Magalhães, Mariana de Souza Castro, Osmindo Rodrigues Pires Júnior   +8 more
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Volumetric Comparison of Overall Brain and Neuropil Size Between Social and Non‐social Spiders: Exploring the Social Brain Hypothesis

Integrative Zoology, EarlyView.
Brain size may be influenced by the cognitive demands of sociality (social brain hypothesis). We used microCT to compare CNS and brain volumes in social versus solitary huntsman and crab spiders. Social huntsman spiders had larger arcuate and mushroom bodies, while social crab spiders had larger visual neuropils.
Vanessa Penna‐Gonçalves, Donald James Mclean, Nikolas J. Willmott, Michael B. J. Kelly, Jay R. Black, Elizabeth C. Lowe, Marie E. Herberstein   +6 more
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Terrestrial venomous animals, the envenomings they cause, and treatment perspectives in the Middle East and North Africa.

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2021
The Middle East and Northern Africa, collectively known as the MENA region, are inhabited by a plethora of venomous animals that cause up to 420,000 bites and stings each year. To understand the resultant health burden and the key variables affecting it,
Timothy P Jenkins, Shirin Ahmadi, Matyas A Bittenbinder, Trenton K Stewart, Dilber E Akgun, Melissa Hale, Nafiseh N Nasrabadi, Darian S Wolff, Freek J Vonk, Jeroen Kool, Andreas H Laustsen   +10 more
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A Polychaete’s Powerful Punch: Venom Gland Transcriptomics of Glycera Reveals a Complex Cocktail of Toxin Homologs [PDF]

, 2014
© The Author(s) 2014. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/
Abdel-Rahman, Aird, Alarcon-Chaidez, Altschul, Alves-Silva, Ambrose, Anatriello, Anderluh, Bakrac, Bakrac, Balasubramanian, Barlic, Binford, Binford, Björn M. von Reumont, Bon, Borda, Bradnam, Brinkman, Böggemann, Casewell, Castaneda, Castaneda, Chagas, Chang, Chen, Christoph Bleidorn, Conesa, Conesa, Cuypers, Dan Sykes, Darriba, De Colibus, Earl, Eddy, Fauchald, Favreau, Fernandes-Pedrosa, Francischetti, Fry, Fry, Garb, Garcia, Garcia-Ortega, Ghadessy, Giese, Giray, Grabherr, Hargreaves, He, Honma, Jungo, Jörg Hetmank, Kagan, Katoh, Kawashima, Khalturin, King, King, Kircher, Kiriake, Klawe, Kobayashi, Koua, Krebs, Kristan, Kvist, Lahcen I. Campbell, Lars Hering, Lin, Low, Low, Manaranche, Mancheno, Margres, Martin, Meunier, Meunier, Meyer, Michel, Michel, Min, Morgenstern, Morgenstern, Moses, Nakamura, Olivera, O’Neil, Peng, Pennington, Petersen, Rangaraju, Rigoni, Rokyta, Ronald A. Jenner, Rosenberg, Rouse, Safavi-Hemami, Sandy Richter, Schenning, Shiomi, Shiomi, Smeds, Stamatakis, Sukumwang, Sunagar, Terrat, Ueda, Ungerer, Violette, von Reumont, Vonk, Warren, Watala, Weston, Whittington, Wong, Zdobnov, Zhang, Zimmerberg, Zobel-Thropp   +120 more
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Beyond Manoeuvre Theory for European Defence

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article contributes to the debate about European defence in the light of the Russo‐Ukraine war and growing doubts about US commitment to Europe. It argues that Europeans need to fundamentally relearn the ability to imagine military strategy from a European viewpoint.
Lukas Mengelkamp, Sam Vincent
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