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Insects
November 2024
Commodity Protection and Quality Unit, San Joaquin Valley Agricultural Sciences Center, United States Department of Agriculture, Agriculture Research Service, Parlier, CA 93648, USA.
The navel orangeworm, , is the principal pest of pistachio and almond in California. The timing of the insecticide application is challenging because there is no model that predicts when pistachio is vulnerable to infestation. Sixteen years of pistachio flight data from Madera and Fresno counties (541,892 adults) were analyzed to determine if there was a consistent starting point each year for flights that overlap pistachio vulnerability.
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November 2024
Key Sericultural Laboratory of Shaanxi, Ankang University, Ankang 725000, China.
: The body color and patterns of insects play important roles in foraging, evading predators, mating, thermoregulation, and environmental adaptation. During the rearing of the QiufengN silkworm strain, a mutant with black pupal cuticle (QiufengNBP) was discovered. Preliminary map-based cloning and sequence analysis indicated that the gene might significantly influence the formation of the black pupa mutant and the expression of 30K proteins.
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December 2024
Department of Biological Sciences, University of Missouri, 207 Tucker Hall, Columbia, MO 65211, USA.
In communication systems, the signal and preference for the signal have to match, limiting phenotypic variation. Yet, communication systems evolve, but the mechanisms of how phenotypic variation can come into existence while not disrupting the match are poorly understood. Geographic variation in communication can provide insights into the diversification of these systems.
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December 2024
School of Veterinary Medicine and Science, University of Nottingham, Sutton Bonington LE12 5RD, UK.
In recent decades, it has become apparent that during parturition events in a number of social mammals, social support behaviours from group mates can be directed to parturient females (and their newborn neonates). Such behaviour has been documented in diverse taxa, across non-human primates, , , and , living in a range of social group organisations, from matrilineal groups to cooperatively breeding groups and multi-male, multi-female groups. Since sociality, in association with parturition, has been demonstrated to confer several health benefits to human mothers and neonates, here, we also consider the potential adaptive significance of social support behaviours for other, non-human, social mammals.
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December 2024
College of Horticulture, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou 510642, China. Electronic address:
Chinese cabbage is an important vegetable in southern China. Excessive nitrogen fertilizer application can lead to the accumulation of nitrate in edible organs, which affects food value. Hence, the cultivation of varieties with high nitrogen utilization efficiency (NUE) and low nitrate accumulation is essential for molecular breeding.
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