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Longest-surviving Carboniferous-family insect found in Mesozoic amber
The major lineages of winged insects originated in the Carboniferous and most extant families stemmed 150 Ma later. Until now, no family from the Carboniferous was represented by a living species or by amber f...
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Roach nectarivory, gymnosperm and earliest flower pollination evidence from Cretaceous ambers
Direct fossil evidence for Mesozoic flower pollination is scarce. Umenocoleoid micro-cockroaches Lepidopterix vegrandis gen. et sp. n. (Lebanese amber) and Antophiloblatta hispida gen. et sp. n. (Myanmar amber) p...
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Batesian insect-insect mimicry-related explosive radiation of ancient alienopterid cockroaches
Batesian mimicry is a relationship in which a harmful organism (the model) is mimicked by a harmless organism (the mimic), which gains protection because predators mistake it for the model. It is the most wide...
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Population genetic structure of Simulium degrangei (Diptera: Simuliidae) from Western Carpathians
Simulium degrangei Dorier & Grenier, 1960 was recorded in southern and central Europe and in the Crimea and Caucasus. Its distribution pattern is scattered. The variability of the mtDNA gene enco...
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Advanced glycation end products in myocardial reperfusion injury
Advanced glycation end products (AGEs) are associated with cardiovascular diseases. Whether the AGE levels change during myocardial reperfusion injury is currently unknown. The aim of our study was to investig...
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Lack of evidence for meteorological effects on infradian dynamics of testosterone
Climatic factors are known to influence the endocrine system. Previous studies have shown that circannual seasonal variations of testosterone might be partly explained by changes in air temperature. Whether in...
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The effect of anastrozol on spatial memory in adult rats
Androgens are known to affect cognitive functions via organizational and activational effects. It is unknown whether the effects are mediated via the androgen receptor or after conversion to estradiol with aromat...
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Use of inter-simple sequence repeat (ISSR) markers for discrimination between and within species of blackflies (Diptera: Simuliidae)
The present study is the first report of fingerprinting in blackflies (Diptera: Simuliidae), using inter-simple sequence repeat (ISSR) markers. Among five primers tested, three tetranucleotide repeat primers (...
