Many studies have reported honeybee colony losses in human-dominated landscapes. While bee floral food resources have been drastically reduced over past decades in human-dominated landscapes, no field study has yet been ...

Adaptive explanations for the evolution of extra-pair paternity (EPP) suggest that females seek extra-pair copulations with high quality males. Still, the link between ornamentation, individual quality, and paternity remains ...

Parental removal experiments are a simple method for understanding the adaptive value of egg brooding in decapod crustaceans. Embryos of several decapods have been successfully cultured in vitro; however, simultaneous ...

Atrazine is an herbicide recommended for the corn crop,but little information is available on its residual effect on vegetables that could be grown in succession. The objective of this research was to evaluate the residual ...

The objective of this study was to evaluate the effect of nutritional management during rearing and finishing phases on beef fatty acid composition, and carcass and beef quality traits of Hereford cattle. The study used ...

Free-living amoebae of the genus Acanthamoeba have been associated with keratitis and encephalitis. Some factors related to their pathogenic potential have been described, including the release of hydrolytic enzymes, and ...

Biodiesel appears as one of the possible alternative renewable fuels to substitute diesel fuel derived from petroleum. Several researches have been done on the technical aspects of biodiesel production in an attempt to ...

En el presente capítulo se describen los aspectos conocidos de la relación organismo-ambiente en los cangrejos de estuarios y marismas de Argentina, particularmente Neohelice granulata, a lo largo de la ontogenia, desde ...