Imidacloprid, a neonicotinoid pesticide widely used for insect pest control, has become a potential pollutant to pollinators.Previous reports have demonstrated the toxicity of this drug in activating oxidative stress resulting in high mortality in the honey bee Apis mellifera.However, the mechanisms underlying the toxicity of imidacloprid have not
High protein diets have become popular for body weight maintenance and weight loss despite controversies regarding efficacy and safety.Although both weight gain and weight loss are determined by energy consumption and expenditure, data from rodent trials consistently demonstrate that the protein:carbohydrate ratio in high fat diets strongly influen
Background Animals rely on sound to mediate a myriad of daily activities, and anthropogenic noise is a pollutant that alters the natural soundscape Pizza Cutters within which they are active.As human infrastructure expands, broadband anthropogenic noise increases, which can affect behaviors of free-living nocturnal animals.Mice are nocturnal animal
Tanks/Jerseys BackgroundRefined sugars (e.g., sucrose, fructose) were absent in the diet of most people until very recently in human history.Today overconsumption of diets rich in sugars contributes together with other factors to drive the current obesity epidemic.Overconsumption of sugar-dense foods or beverages is initially motivated by the pleas
Some insect herbivores can regulate their nourishment intake by different feeding behaviour.This mechanism allows them to persist with utilising different food resources according to the composition of the vegetation within their habitats.Using a two-choice experiment, we analysed foraging behaviour in females 8-06 N of the tree-dwelling bush-crick