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Pivotal Pervasive Pigments: Carotenoids in insect ecology
Carotenoids are nearly ubiquitous organic compounds involved in all sorts of important functions across all major groups of organisms. They play key roles in photosynthesis in plants, they function as antioxidants, and they provide many of the bright yellow, orange, … Continue reading
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Tagged carotenoids, chemical ecology, insect-plant interactions
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Carnivores and carotenoids…a new paper by Jeremy Heath
PhD student Jeremy Heath had something additional to be thankful for this Thanksgiving. His manuscript entitled “Carnivores and carotenoids are associated with adaptive behavioural divergence in a radiation of gall midges” was just officially published (online) in the journal Ecological … Continue reading
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Tagged Adaptive radiation, Asteromyia, Cecidomyiidae, Jeremy Heath
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Tachinid flies and the final frontier…
Forest canopies are often referred to as one of the “final frontiers” of biodiversity exploration. We know astonishingly little about what organisms and ecological interactions occur in forest canopies, primarily due to the difficulty in sampling and studying them. In … Continue reading
