A life‐history trade‐off exists between flight capability and reproduction in many wing
dimorphic insects: a long‐winged morph is flight‐capable at the expense of reproduction …

Dispersal represents a key life-history trait with several implications for the fitness of
organisms, population dynamics and resilience, local adaptation, meta-population …

Animals that must hunt and kill for at least part of their living are inherently interesting to
many people and the role that carnivores play in biological communities attract interest from …

Background Trypanosomatids are parasitic flagellates well known because of some
representatives infecting humans, domestic animals, and cultural plants. Many …

Evidence accumulates that the functional plasticity of insulin and insulin-like growth factor
signaling in insects could spring, among others, from the multiplicity of insulin receptors …

The concept of animal personalities has recently become of major interest as researchers
began to wonder why animals within a given population show consistent behaviour across …

1. Life-history trade-offs are considered a major driving force in the emergence of consistent
behavioural differences (personality variation); but empirical tests are scarce. 2. We …

Individuals vary in their ability to disperse. Much of this variation can be described by
covarying phenotypic traits that are related to dispersal (constituting the 'dispersal …

Forests fragmentation reduces the density of natural plant populations forming patches of
the remaining individuals. One of the biotic interactions that can be affected by forest …

The effect of an insecticide, permethrin (Ambush 25 EC), on the titre of two adipokinetic
hormones in the central nervous system (CNS) and haemolymph of the firebug Pyrrhocoris …