Food selection in larval fruit flies: dynamics and effects on larval development [0.03%]
果蝇幼虫的食品选择对其发育的影响及选择动态过程研究
Sebastian Schwarz,Zachary Durisko,Reuven Dukas
Sebastian Schwarz
Selecting food items and attaining a nutritionally balanced diet is an important challenge for all animals including humans. We aimed to establish fruit fly larvae (Drosophila melanogaster) as a simple yet powerful model system for examinin...
Virgin ant queens mate with their own sons to avoid failure at colony foundation [0.03%]
处女蚁后与自己的儿子交配以避免建巢失败
Christine Vanessa Schmidt,Sabine Frohschammer,Alexandra Schrempf et al.
Christine Vanessa Schmidt et al.
Mother-son mating (oedipal mating) is practically non-existent in social Hymenoptera, as queens typically avoid inbreeding, mate only early in life and do not mate again after having begun to lay eggs. In the ant genus Cardiocondyla mating ...
How flies respond to honey bee pheromone: the role of the foraging gene on reproductive response to queen mandibular pheromone [0.03%]
果蝇对蜂王信息素的反应：觅食基因在生殖行为响应蜂后上颚腺素中的作用
Alison L Camiletti,David N Awde,Graham J Thompson
Alison L Camiletti
In this study we test one central prediction from sociogenomic theory--that social and non-social taxa share common genetic toolkits that regulate reproduction in response to environmental cues. We exposed Drosophila females of rover (for(R...
Spatial separation from family in the mobile young of a biparental fish: risks and dynamics of returning home [0.03%]
社交性鱼类中离群幼鱼的空间分离：回家的风险与动态机制研究
Stacey S Y Lee-Jenkins,Sarah B Jeswiet,Jean-Guy J Godin
Stacey S Y Lee-Jenkins
In species with extended parental care, mobile dependent young are potentially more vulnerable to predators when they stray and become separated from their parents. We would expect that the likelihood of, and latency time for, a separated y...
Fritz Vollrath,Donald Edmonds
Fritz Vollrath
The glue-coated and wet capture spiral of the orb web of the garden cross spider Araneus diadematus is suspended between the dry silk radial and web frame threads. Here, we experimentally demonstrate that the capture spiral is electrically ...
A giant spider from the Jurassic of China reveals greater diversity of the orbicularian stem group [0.03%]
中国侏罗纪巨型蜘蛛揭示圆蛛类干群更大的多样性
Paul A Selden,Chungkun Shih,Dong Ren
Paul A Selden
A large female spider, Nephila jurassica, was described from Middle Jurassic strata of north-east China and placed in the modern genus Nephila (family Nephilidae) on the basis of many morphological similarities, but, as with many ancient fo...
Geographical variation in parasitism shapes larval immune function in a phytophagous insect [0.03%]
寄生虫的地域变化影响植物取食昆虫幼虫的免疫功能
Fanny Vogelweith,Morgane Dourneau,Denis Thiéry et al.
Fanny Vogelweith et al.
Two of the central goals of immunoecology are to understand natural variation in the immune system among populations and to identify those selection pressures that shape immune traits. Maintenance of the immune system can be costly, and bot...
Larval anatomy of the pterobranch Cephalodiscus gracilis supports secondarily derived sessility concordant with molecular phylogenies [0.03%]
cephalodiscus gracilis 胚后解剖支持分子谱系的次级固着 Concordant 理论
Thomas Stach
Thomas Stach
Pterobranchs have been interpreted as "missing links" combining primitive invertebrate features with advanced vertebrate-like characteristics. The first detailed morphological description of an ontogenetic stage of a pterobranch, based on d...
Nest sanitation through defecation: antifungal properties of wood cockroach feces [0.03%]
通过排便进行巢穴清洁：美洲木蠊粪便的抗真菌特性
Rebeca B Rosengaus,Kerry Mead,William S Du Comb et al.
Rebeca B Rosengaus et al.
The wood cockroach Cryptocercus punctulatus nests as family units inside decayed wood, a substrate known for its high microbial load. We tested the hypothesis that defecation within their nests, a common occurrence in this species, reduces ...