Can anyone recommend references for postprandial thermophily (the increase in preferred temperatures) during digestion in invertebrates?

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How does running speed and incline affect metabolic rates of mice on treadmills?

We are seeing some interesting patterns when running different mouse species when stepping among different velocities and at different incline levels. Can anyone suggest recent or classic...

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Anyone want to collaborate on a manuscript reviewing the online and social technology that currently parallels actual scientific research?

Are you Online or Are you Invisible? I am thinking about discussing the advantages (or lack thereof) involved with participating in sites like ResearchGate, Academia.com, Epernicus,...

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Looking for a collaborator who can help stain our prepared slides of gut tissues - is anyone interested?

I am looking for someone who can help us with H&E staining of ~150 slides (mouse, fish, quail, and toad colons) that have been professionally prepared and embedded in paraffin mounts. I have...

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What is your perspective on using a weighted-authorship credit for a paper?

Two equally 'successful' studies are published - one by two authors and another by eight authors. Presently, the metrics allow for the eight authors each to get an equal 'unit of recognition' but...

08 September 2013 1,458 4 View

Stable 13C isotopes in air - free analyses in our lab?

We are now set up to measure 13CO2 in exhaled breath and air samples and welcome potential research collaborators to send us samples for analyses. - No cost/fees/changes

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Can someone advise on methods and techniques for developing a relatively simple field project to census the herpetofauna at a local ecological site?

I am putting together a short proposal for a project involving undergraduate students for next summer.

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An animal in not a rock (e.g., Koch 2013), it has an internal constitution that can be modified?

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Is there any evidence that shows how ambient temperature affects insects behaviour?

I'm a student of biological sciences and I need to collect information about how ambient temperature affects insects behaviour to answer the question: " which insects are more active in...

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Do plants produce hormones that have the same influence properties of animal hormones?

I know that all animals and insects produces hormones. Do plants produce hormones that can have an equivalent effect on an animal like animal hormones?

13 June 2024 3,860 1 View

Any trap for the capturing of Odonatans?

Aquatic insects

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In what phylum is the genus Spiroplasma?

Spiroplasma is a bacteria common in insects. In https://lpsn.dsmz.de/phylum/mycoplasmatota, it is classified in phylum Mycoplasmatota. However, in the SILVA database (https://www.arb-silva.de/),...

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Hello, our metabarcoding PCRs work fine in 96-well but not in 384 well-plates. Did anyone experience this problem as well?

We are working with aquatic DNA samples and 7 different regions amplifying invertebrates, plants and vertebrates. We optimized our reactions in 96-well plates which worked well but now we do the...

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Who can help me to get the PDF file of this paper?

Yuen P.H. 1965. Some studies on the taxonomy and development of some Rhabdisoid and Cosmocercoid nematodes from Malayan amphibians. Zoologischer Anzeiger, 174, 275–298. Thank you very much for...

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Can anyone identify these Cumaceans?

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What are the currently available options for mass marking ants during an experiment?

Hi all, I'm looking to mass mark Solenopsis xyloni ants during an experiment. For this experiment, I'm allowing the whole colony to feed on three feeders, and I want to mass mark all the ants...

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How to find Functional role of insects?

Respected all Is there is any database which classify insects according to their guild (feeding habit) and Ecological/functional roles like predator, parasitoid, scavenger, pollinator. Please let...

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