Authors: Manuela Oliveira Ramalho, Corrie Saux Moreau, Odair Correa Bueno ABSTRACT Several studies have attempted to understand what may influence the bacterial community of a host, but studies examining whether different bacterial species are found in different parts of the … Continue reading
Authors: Christian Hébert, Yves Dubuc ABSTRACT Sexes of adult Cerambycidae (Coleoptera) are usually discriminated by the greater length of male antennae. However, in Spondylidinae, adult antennae are short and the difference between sexes is negligible and difficult to appraise. Only … Continue reading
Authors: Muhamad Abidalla, Donatella Battaglia ABSTRACT The embryogenesis of lepidopteran insects has morphogenetic events accompanying the blastokinesis movements (anatrepsis and katatrepsis) in early and late stages, respectively. Katatrepsis is related to embryonic movement with yolk mass and regression of amnioserosa … Continue reading
Author(s)：Denise Dalbosco Dell’Aglio, Milton de Souza Mendonça Jr. ABSTRACT We investigated how the parasitoid Torymus sp. (Hymenoptera: Torymidae) attacking galls of Schismatodiplosis lantanae (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) on Lantana camara (Verbenaceae) behaves in the presence of a conspecific female competitor in the … Continue reading
Author(s)： Regina Jijoho Patinvoh1, Alfred Akpoveta Susu2 ABSTRACT Reduction of mosquito populations will, at least, reduce substantially the transmission of malaria disease. One potential method of achieving this reduction is the environmentally-friendly population control method known as the Sterile Insect … Continue reading