Body Size, Not Personality, Explains Both Male Mating Success and Sexual Cannibalism in a Widow Spider [PDF]
Biology, 2021 Theory suggests that consistent individual variation in behavior relates to fitness, but few studies have empirically examined the role of personalities in mate choice, male-male competition and reproductive success.
Rok Golobinek +2 more
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Anuário Antropológico, 2023 Relationships among the peasants and the lagoons in rural communities situated in the northern Andes in Peru are ambiguous. The lagoons, located at the top of the mountains, appear as ferocious entities in the stories of local people.
Adriana Paola Paredes Peñafiel
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Voracity, reaction to stings, and survival of domestic hens when feeding on the yellow scorpion (Tityus serrulatus) [PDF]
Journal of Venomous Animals and Toxins including Tropical Diseases, 2022 Background: Scorpionism is a worldwide problem that has already made thousands of victims, and multi-disciplinary approaches for controlling their populations are to be more successful.
Gabriel Pimenta Murayama +3 more
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An Alkaloid from a Highly Invasive Seaweed Increases the Voracity and Reproductive Output of a Model Fish Species [PDF]
Marine Drugs, 2022 The invasive macroalga Caulerpa cylindracea has spread widely in the Mediterranean Sea, becoming a favorite food item for native fish for reasons yet unknown.
Valentina Schiano +15 more
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Improving water quality does not guarantee fish health: Effects of ammonia pollution on the behaviour of wild-caught pre-exposed fish. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2021 Ammonia is a pollutant frequently found in aquatic ecosystems. In fish, ammonia can cause physical damage, alter its behaviour, and even cause death. Exposure to ammonia also increases fish physiological stress, which can be measured through biomarkers ...
Patricia Soler +5 more
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Virus-Induced Voracity: Uncovering Hyperphagia Post-Herpes Simplex Virus Type 1 [PDF]
Case Reports in NeurologyIntroduction: Herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) is the leading cause of sporadic fatal encephalitis, typically presenting with temporal lobe abnormalities.
Arpan Mitra +5 more
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The cyclicality of government expenditure in developing country: the case of Indonesia
Economic Journal of Emerging Markets, 2014 This paper analyzes the cyclicality and the relationship between government expenditure and output of Indonesia, 1999-2012 using Johansen co-integration test and the error correction model.
Haryo Kuncoro
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Fashion Design and Art: Between Mutual Voracity and Disciplinary Self-Determination
Fashion Highlight, 2023 Observing the 20th century, it becomes clear how much the definition of fashion as an inferior reflection of art is definitively outdated, in favour of a more complex and equitable relationship of mutualistic inference that places fashion within the ...
Juri Filieri +2 more
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SHILAP, 2022 The association between the entomophagous Lepidoptera Laetilia coccidivora (Comstock, 1879) is recorded for the first time with the species of Coccoidea Coccus pseudomagnoliarum (Kuwana, 1914).
C. Lázaro-Castellanos +2 more
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Fitness of two phenotypes of Harmonia axyridis (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae)
European Journal of Entomology, 2001 The coccinellid H. axyridis shows considerable intraspecific variability of elytral patterns. In this paper, we suggest that a genotype that confers a specific pattern of elytra could also confer other specific autecological attributes.
Antonio O. SOARES +2 more
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