The objective of the study was to determine the influence of temperature, relative humidity, and shoot size of Valencia orange trees Citrus sinensis (L.) Osbeck (Sapindales: Rutaceae) on the abundance of eggs and nymp...
the Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province(No.2016A030313145);the National Key R&D Program of China(No.2018YFD0900901);the Central Public-interest Scientific Institution Basal Research Fund,Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences(No.2024SJRC9)。
Salinity is recognized as a pivotal factor limiting the migration of freshwater fish to brackish environments.The largemouth bass(LMB,Micropterus salmoides),a globally translocated freshwater fish,exhibits estuarine d...
supported by the National Nat-ural Science Foundation of China(41925008,42288201 and 42222201);the Pearl River Tal-ent Recruitment Program of Guangdong Province(2019QN01N968);supported by the U.S.National Science Foundation(DEB-1926919).
Ectoparasitism among insects has evolved innumerable times,exploit-ing hosts as varied as arachnids to vertebrates.The most infamous of ec-toparasitic insects are those that live and feed on warm-blooded vertebrates.T...
Summary What is already known about this topic?Foodborne botulism is caused by botulinum neurotoxin(BoNT).Clostridium botulinum(C.botulinum)is a strictly anaerobic,Gram-positive bacterium,which is a key pathogen capab...
funded by the Education Department of Hainan Province(No.HnjgY,2022–12);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.32260127 to C.Y.);Doctoral Start-up Funds of China West Normal University(No.493002 to P.Y.).
In the co-evolutionary system of avian brood parasitism,egg recognition and rejection are common and generally act as effective anti-parasitic adaptations by hosts.Accordingly,most studies have examined the role of pa...
Bactrocera dorsalis is one of the major constraints on the mango industry in Burkina Faso. To control these insect pests, a number of control methods have been used, including synthetic insecticides that are costly fo...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.31970427 and 32270526 to W.L.)。
Brood parasitic birds lay eggs in the nests of other birds,and the parasitized hosts can reduce the cost of raising unrelated offspring through the recognition of parasitic eggs.Hosts can adopt vision-based cognitive ...
Method: In Cameroon limited data are available regarding the prevalence of enteric bacteria associated with table egg consuming infections. As such, a situational-based study was performed in patients with complains o...
The aim of this study was to provide a simple, easy-to-use incubation system for small-scale rural poultry farmers far from the electricity grid. To this end, a naturally ventilated solar thermal incubator was built a...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation ofChina(42288201,42372036,41688103 and41972021).
Our understanding of pre-Cretaceous dinosaur reproduction is hindered by a scarcity of evidence withinfossil records. Here we report three adult skeletons and five clutches of embryo-containing eggs of a newsauropodom...