Water fleas on 'happy pills' have more offspring
Zooplankton can grow faster and produce more offspring when exposed to a substance that affects human happiness.
Plants & Animals
Oct 29, 2020
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News tagged with fleas
Love the parasite you're with—the entertaining life of unwelcome guests from flea circuses to Aliens
Bloodsucker, leech, tick—few things have a reputation worse than parasites. But these biological hangers-on also have a comic cultural history.
Other
Jun 3, 2020
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How seasonal allergies affect your pet
With an uptick in pollen comes the torturous sneezing and watery eyes. Pets get seasonal allergies, too, but they exhibit discomfort in different ways.
Veterinary medicine
May 27, 2020
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Whether horseradish flea beetles deter predators depends on their food plant and their life stage
Horseradish flea beetles use plant defense compounds, so-called glucosinolates, from their host food plants for their own defense. Like their hosts, they have an enzyme which converts the glucosinolates into toxic mustard ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 2, 2020
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Exceptional catapulting jump mechanism in a tiny beetle could be applied in robotic limbs
The fascinating and highly efficient jumping mechanism in flea beetles is described in a new research article in the open-access journal Zookeys. Despite having been known since 1929, the explosive jump—which is also the ...
Plants & Animals
Feb 25, 2020
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Disrupting key protein alters biological rhythms in water flea
Researchers from North Carolina State University have shown that the E75 protein is a key regulator of some biological rhythms through interactions with nitric oxide. Suppression of E75 results in longer molt cycles and reduced ...
Ecology
Sep 17, 2019
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Know garden pests before deciding on a path to control
You look around the garden and see aphids suck the life out of your rose buds, flea beetles chomp on the cauliflower and cabbage butterflies lay eggs that will turn into voracious caterpillars. What to do?
Plants & Animals
Aug 12, 2019
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A species of cladoceran believed to be extinct has been rediscovered
In a lake in Finland, Senckenberg scientist Kay Van Damme rediscovered in collaboration with an international team a species of water flea that had long been considered extinct. While there are numerous fossil records of ...
Plants & Animals
Jul 2, 2019
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Many cats and dogs carrying fleas with high levels of bacteria, finds Big Flea Project
As many as one in four cats and one in seven dogs are carrying fleas, and about 11 per cent of these fleas are infected with potentially pathogenic bacteria, according to a large-scale analysis of owned animals in the UK. ...
Veterinary medicine
May 10, 2019
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Water flea can smell fish and dive into the dark for protection
Water fleas, or Daphnia, ensure their survival by reacting to a signal substance of their predators (fish) with flight. The zoologist Meike Anika Hahn from Professor Dr. Eric von Elert's research group at the University of ...
Plants & Animals
May 9, 2019
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