In A. bipunctata, the mortality of larvae at this stage is probably very high, given the low area covered before death and the low success rate in capturing aphids when such encounters do occur (Banks, 1955; Dixon, 1970; Wratten, 1973, 1976). A. bipunctata individuals which eat an egg ...
A faster response can occur through phenotypic plasticity, and/or the reversible adjustment of individual phenotypes to environmental conditions. Such plastic responses can also be inherited when involving epigenetic change, such as alterations in DNA methylation patterns. The fastest responses may be ...
Swan plant commonly planted in our NZ gardens to encourage Monarch butterflies in my opinion does not supply enough cardenolides to deter or poison its enemies, wasps remove the cats when small and birds are eating the large ones, I've got many Swan bushes but no cats grow into larger siz...
In the interstripe, only minor changes in the reflection spectra occur in response to NE. n = 4 different fish (f) illustrates optical response from relaxed, untreated fish (−NE) to the treated fish (+NE). Note the differences between the blue stripe and the two-flanking yellow ...
In order to breed together, animals must be able to meet; therefore they must occur in sympatry and synchrony. In such conditions, the ability to produce together a fertile offspring (interfertility) testimonies to genetic compatibility between them. In any discussion of this concept, instead of...
: The barriers to clinical trials in small patient populations. Circulation 2011;124:1703-5.Saul JP, Cain NB. Can we do a prospective trial for fetal tachy- cardia?: The barriers to clinical trials in small patient popula- tions. Circulation 2011;124:1703-5....
Parallel selection is more likely to occur when the adaptive response is controlled by a single gene, i.e. the Eda gene and armor plate reduction [6, 50] and the Kit ligand Kitlg gene and pigmentation [51] in threespine sticklebacks or the melonacortin-1 receptor Mc1r and colour ...
Abuse and addiction are separate and distinct from physical dependence and tolerance. Physicians should be aware that addiction may not be accompanied by concurrent tolerance and symptoms of physical dependence. The converse is also true. In addition, abuse of opioids can occur in the absence of tr...
novaezelandiae from the benthos in the littoral region of these four water bodies. To ensure that ostracods collected from a single location did strictly co-occur, only a relatively small area (less than 5 m2) was sampled within each water body. Sorting of specimens The specimens collected ...
with certain genotypes are more likely than individuals with other genotypes to survive and reproduce, and thus to pass on their alleles to the next generation. As Charles Darwin (1859) argued inOn the Origin of Species, if the following conditions are met, natural selection must occur:...