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Materias / palabras clave: Science: Zoology

Materias / palabras clave: biodiversity, systematics, ecology, biogeography; Science: Zoology

Two canopies of a widely distributed Amazonian tree species, Goupia glabra Aubl. (Celastraceae, height 38 and 45m) were fogged several times with 1% natural pyrethrum during the rainy and dry seasons (1991-1994) in the A...

La información sobre los distintos componentes de la dieta de aves resulta relevante para entender las variaciones poblacionales y la subsistencia de comunidades ante la modificación del paisaje. Sin embargo, a la fech...

Materias / palabras clave: taxonomy, morphology, anatomy, phylogeny (molecular or morphology-based), historical biogeography and palaeontology, arthropods; Science

Insect monitoring is a key component of sustainable and productive crop management. Among the various methods used to observe insect communities, pitfall trapping, visual searching, and sweep-net sampling of vegetation a...

Materias / palabras clave: Mollusks; Spain; Moluscos; España; Arthropods; Artrópodos

The use of pesticides in agriculture and other areas of human activity is interrelated with a major global issue of environment protection. This article analyzes domestic and international literature over a 20-year perio...

The area selected for growing soybean (Glycine max (L.) Merr.) in Argentina, has increased in the last few years; reaching 28.6 millions hectars throughout the country, out which, 500.000 belong to La Pampa province. Usu...

The endemic geographic ranges of mosquitoes are expanding due to various anthropogenic activities including rapid international travel and trade, urbanization, deforestation, and global warming. Hence, Aedes-borne arbovi...

Abstract Vibrio cholerae is a human diarrheal pathogen and an estuarine organism that associates with both terrestrial and aquatic arthropods. Using the model terrestrial arthropod Drosophila melanogaster, we previously ...

Abstract Background Xenomonitoring is an approach of epidemiological infection risk assessment addressing vector-transmitted infections like malaria in hematophagous arthropods. Standardization and automation can facilit...

Abstract Background Representatives of the phylum Methanobacteriota occur in various anoxic environments, but only members of the genera Methanosphaera and Methanobrevibacter exclusively colonize the digestive tract of a...

Dicistroviridae is a new family of small, non-enveloped, +ssRNA viruses pathogenic to both beneficial arthropods and insect pests. Little is known about the dicistrovirus replication mechanism or gene function, and any k...

Abstract Background Matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF MS) protein profiling has emerged over the last decade as a method of choice for species identification of many ...

Abstract Hemotropic mycoplasmas in dogs, such as Mycoplasma haemocanis, have been described worldwide. Recently, these pathogens have been reported to be causative agent of zoonosis. It is known that its transmission may...

Sugarcane weevil borer, Acrotomopus atropunctellus (Boheman) (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) has been detected across all sugarcane planting areas in the Argentinian Northwest with increasing population densities. The monito...

Maternally inherited bacterial endosymbionts such as Wolbachia are common in arthropods. Some serve as reproductive manipulators, favoring the production of infected females in host populations despite possible fitness c...

Background - Plants in over one hundred families in habitats worldwide bear extrafloral nectaries (EFNs). EFNs display a remarkable diversity of evolutionary origins, as well as diverse morphology and location on the pla...