Mosquito Strains from India and Brazil Show Distinct Thermal Tolerance
A study comparing Aedes aegypti from New Delhi and Salvador reveals distinct thermal tolerance profiles linked to their local climatic ...
Tag: Life history traits
Black Soldier Fly Strains Shrug Off Inbreeding, but Longevity Pays the Price
Acute full-sib mating in a black soldier fly strain colonized for over 64 generations caused no production collapse, but inbred ...
Bone Clues Fail to Reveal Neoteny in Salamanders and an Ancient Relative
A new study finds no shared pattern in bone histology, microanatomy or life history traits that distinguishes neotenic salamanders from ...
Owl parents, not chicks, call the shots on when care ends
Radio-tracking of 91 Tengmalm's owl fledglings in Czechia and Finland shows that parents, not offspring, primarily decide when post-fledging care ...
Low-Dose Sugar Helps Fly Development While High Dose Triggers Oxidative Stress
A new Drosophila study finds that low-dose D-galactose improved pupation, eclosion and larval behaviour while boosting antioxidant defenses into early ...
Growing Up Hungry: Larval Food Stress Hits Female Mosquitoes Hardest
An experimental study of Culex pipiens larvae reared at five food levels finds that nutritional stress becomes detectable around 25% ...
Yellow Dung Flies Are Dung Generalists, Not Cow Dung Specialists
A Swiss laboratory study shows yellow dung flies survive and reproduce equally well on cow, horse, wild boar, and red ...
Retrotransposons and Life History Shape Anuran Genome Size
In a groundbreaking study published in BMC Genomics, researchers led by A.O. Rubio, J.H. Neddermeyer, and A. James explore the ...
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