Support for this study was provided by grants from the Key Project of Basic Research of Yunnan Province,China(202101AS070035;202201AS070337);the Yunnan Ten Thousand Talents Plan Young&Elite Talents Project(YNWR-QNBJ-2018-017);the CAS Interdisciplinary Innovation Team of“Light of West China”Program,and the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31970443).
Examples of predator–prey interactions in which flies rob ants are uncommon.To date,this behavior has only been recorded in the genus Bengalia Robineau-Desvoidy(Bengaliinae,Diptera,Calliphoridae).These predatory flie...
“Fundação de AmparoàPesquisa do Estado de São Paulo”(Biota/FAPESP 2010/50188-8 and Scholarship process 2014/13770-1,2018/01659-0,and 2019/00105-3);“Centro de Apoio Profissionalizante Educacional e Social”(CAPES CIMAR)(#23038.004310/2014-85);to“Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico”(CNPq)Research Scholarships PQ#303371/2011-0 to M.L.N.F.and#308653/2014-9 to A.L.C.
Symbiotic relationships in marine environments are not fixed and can change throughout the animal’s life.This study investigated the ontogeny of symbiosis of the spider crab Libinia ferreirae with the host medusa Lyc...
This work was partially funded by a grant from CSIC under the Intramural Research program 2018 with the grant number 2018301081 and the Spanish “Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad(MINECO),Plan Nacional I+D”and the European FEDER funds through project AFROBIV(CGL2014-53557-P);The MINECO also supported an FPI Postdoctoral contract for MPM(BES-2015-072703).
The study of the recent colonization of a symbiont and its interaction with host communities in new locations is an opportunity to understand how they interact.The use of isotopic ratios in trophic ecology can provide...
We study a conflict of two individuals over a valuable resource.We construct a sequential game where the first individual,the Owner,decides whether to defend the resource and the other individual,the Intruder,decides ...