Beetles and their biodiversity in dead wood
Which energy type promotes the biodiversity of beetles living in dead wood in the forest? That depends entirely on where the beetles are in the food chain.
Which energy type promotes the biodiversity of beetles living in dead wood in the forest? That depends entirely on where the beetles are in the food chain.
Ecology
May 9, 2023
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Nagoya University-led international research reveals functions of mouthpart-controlling genes in development of enlarged mandibles in the stag beetle.
Plants & Animals
Mar 7, 2017
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Scientists have built a gene expression database of a stag beetle and identified genes important for sex determination and differentiation.
Plants & Animals
Jun 28, 2016
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Armed with a ferocious pair of mandibles, male stag beetles appear well prepared to take on the world. 'Their jaws are not just for ornamentation, they really use them to fight', says Jana Goyens from the University of Antwerp, ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 26, 2014
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An unusual posthumous honour for physicist Max Planck: Biologists in Tübingen working with Ralf J. Sommer have named a newly discovered nematode after the German Nobel laureate. Pristionchus maxplancki is thus the first ...
Plants & Animals
Jul 9, 2013
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The humble ginger root could be the key to conserving the UK's largest and most spectacular terrestrial beetle the stag beetle. Ecologists from Royal Holloway, University of London and the University of York have developed ...
Ecology
Jan 10, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- About now, and possibly for the next few weeks only, is the time to see the impressive adult stag beetles in flight in the south of England.
Ecology
Jul 21, 2010
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