Sentences with phrase «flour beetle»

Other organisms currently on NHGRI 19s high - priority list for sequencing are: the cow; the South American gray, short - tailed opossum (a marsupial); the red flour beetle; the acorn worm; the flatworm Schmidtea mediterranea; 10 more species of fruit fly; four more species of fungi; and two ciliated microorganisms, Oxytricha trifallax and Tetrahymena thermophila.

We established the red flour beetle Tribolium castaneum as an EvoDevo model organism in our group and developed a non-invasive long - time fluorescence live imaging protocol for Tribolium embryos for our LSFMs.

Other model systems are emerging that use the same sperm fluorescence technique, such as in a flour beetle, Tribolium (also at Syracuse University), and in the transparent hermaphroditic flatworm Macrostomum lignano (at the University of Basel).

Divergence revealed by population crosses in the red flour beetle Tribolium castaneum.

Fully digital beaming scanning light sheet microscopes (DSLM) provided recordings of the developing zebra fish Danio rerio in 2008 and of the red flour beetle Tribolium castaneum in 2014.

DNA sequencing of the ladybird's protein - coding genes revealed roughly 50 that help manufacture antimicrobial peptides, compared with 16 such genes identified in the red flour beetle, which the researchers examined for comparison.

In species like the flour beetle (Tribolium castaneum), the behavior may also impart a reproductive advantage, since studies have shown that cannibalistic individuals produce more eggs than non-cannibals.

Pre-shipment: An overseas country has an official requirement to have the export of wheat fumigated with methyl bromide as a phytosanitary precaution against the introduction of unspecified stored product pests, such as red flour beetle or rice weevil - any fumigation must take place within 21 days of export.

By observing groups of flour beetles in the laboratory, Melbourne and Alan Hastings, a mathematical ecologist at the University of California, Davis, demonstrated that random variations in sex ratios and physical differences, such as body size, greatly contribute to the overall threat of extinction.

Evolution is not easy to measure in a field setting, which is why Ruth Hufbauer, a professor in CSU's Department of Bioagricultural Sciences and Pest Management, and her colleagues Christopher Weiss - Lehman and Brett Melbourne, from CU's Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, used flour beetles (Tribolium castaneum) to observe evolutionary processes in controlled environments.

• The beetles pictured in our article on genetic inheritance were stag beetles, not broad - horned flour beetles as the article...

For example, are flour beetles a model system for other insects, when their natural habitat is the same as the way they live in the lab?

There are many types of feeder prey items available today, including mealworms, superworms, waxworms, silkworms, fruit flies, springtails, flour beetles, and a handful of prolific roach species.

Not exact matches

The beetles photographed here aren't actually playing in the snow — they are being dusted with flour.

An international study by scientists at the University of Exeter and the Universities of Okayama and Tsukuba in Japan investigated the complicated sexual conflict over mating in Gnatocerus cornutus, the horned flour - beetle.

The drugstore beetle, Stegobiuim paniceum, seen here poking its head out from behind a bread crumb, feeds not only on flour, spices, and fish food but also on books, mildly toxic medicines, and even tin and lead sheets — «anything but cast iron,» as one wag put it.