HABITUATION TO A DETERRENT PLANT ALKALOID DEVELOPS FASTER IN THE SPECIALIST HERBIVORE HELICOVERPA ASSULTA THAN IN ITS GENERALIST CONGENER HELICOVERPA ARMIGERA AND COINCIDES WITH TASTE NEURON DESENSITISATION

The two closely related moth species, Helicoverpa armigera and H.assulta differ strongly in their degree of host-plant specialism.In dual-choice leaf disk assays, caterpillars of the two species that had been reared on standard artificial diet were strongly deterred by the plant-derived alkaloid strychnine.However, caterpillars of both species rear

Up to 15% of patients with secondary brain tumors of unknown primary are admitted to a neurosurgery department.Identification of a primary Ashtray tumor site on the basis of surgical material immunophenotyping in routine clinical practice has a significant potential; however, this requires systematization.Objective: to detect the primary focus of b

Bullet chats have Nasal Health grown in popularity in East Asia since 2006, when the Japanese animation website Niconico originated overlaying flying texts on video displays and synchronizing them to the video timeline.This bullet chat function has now gained popularity on Bilibili, a popular Chinese video-sharing social media site with a focus on

The rumen microbiome has the important task of supplying ruminants with most of their dietary requirements and is responsible for up to 90% of their metabolic needs.This tremendous feat is possible due to the large diversity of microorganisms in the rumen.The rumen is considered one of the most diverse ecosystems on the planet in terms of species d

The aim of this study was to characterize the prevalence of fecal carriage of extended-spectrum beta-lactamases and carbapenemase-producing Gram-negative bacteria among healthy humans in Tunisia.Fifty-one rectal swabs of healthy volunteers were plated on MacConkey agar plates supplemented with cefotaxime or imipenem.The occurrences of resistance ge