| ultra-low activities of a common radioisotope for permission-free tracking of a drosophilid fly in its natural habitat. | knowledge of a species' ecology, including its movement in time and space, is key for many questions in biology and conservation. while numerous tools for tracking larger animals are available, millimetre-sized insects are averse to standard tracking and labelling procedures. here, we evaluated the applicability of ultra-low, permission-exempt activities of the metastable isomer of the radionuclide technetium-99 for labelling and field detection of the mountain fly drosophila nigrosparsa. we dem ... | 2016 | 27812000 |
| permanent genetic resources added to molecular ecology resources database 1 april 2013-31 may 2013. | this article documents the addition of 234 microsatellite marker loci to the molecular ecology resources database. loci were developed for the following species: acipenser sinensis, aleochara bilineata, aleochara bipustulata, barbus meridionalis, colossoma macropomum, delia radicum, drosophila nigrosparsa, fontainea picrosperma, helianthemum cinereum, liomys pictus, megabalanus azoricus, pelteobagrus vachelli, pleuragramma antarcticum, podarcis hispanica type 1a, sardinella brasiliensis and scle ... | 2013 | 23937578 |
| oviposition substrate of the mountain fly drosophila nigrosparsa (diptera: drosophilidae). | the survival of insect larvae often depends on the mother's choice of oviposition substrate, and thus, this choice is an essential part of an insect species' ecology. especially species with narrow substrate preferences may suffer from changes in substrate availability triggered by, for example, climate change. recent climate warming is affecting species directly (e.g., physiology) but also indirectly (e.g., biological interactions) leading to mismatching phenologies and distributions. however, ... | 2016 | 27788257 |
| genomic resources notes accepted 1 august 2014-30 september 2014. | this article documents the public availability of (i) transcriptome sequence data, assembly and annotation, and single nucleotide polymorphisms (snps) for the cone snail conus miliaris; (ii) a set of snp markers for two biotypes from the culex pipiens mosquito complex; (iii) transcriptome sequence data, assembly and annotation for the mountain fly drosophila nigrosparsa; (iv) transcriptome sequence data, assembly and annotation and snps for the neotropical toads rhinella marina and r. schneideri ... | 2015 | 25424247 |
| identifying the minimum number of microsatellite loci needed to assess population genetic structure: a case study in fly culturing. | small, isolated populations are constantly threatened by loss of genetic diversity due to drift. such situations are found, for instance, in laboratory culturing. in guarding against diversity loss, monitoring of potential changes in population structure is paramount; this monitoring is most often achieved using microsatellite markers, which can be costly in terms of time and money when many loci are scored in large numbers of individuals. here, we present a case study reducing the number of mic ... | 2017 | 29166845 |
| chemosensory adaptations of the mountain fly drosophila nigrosparsa (insecta: diptera) through genomics' and structural biology's lenses. | chemoreception is essential for survival. some chemicals signal the presence of nutrients or toxins, others the proximity of mating partners, competitors, or predators. chemical signal transduction has therefore been studied in multiple organisms. in drosophila species, a number of odorant receptor genes and various other types of chemoreceptors were found. three main gene families encode for membrane receptors and one for globular proteins that shuttle compounds with different degrees of affini ... | 2017 | 28256589 |