Browsing by Author "Flores-Prado, Luis"
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Torrico-Bazoberry, Daniel; Caceres-Sanchez, Liliana; Flores-Prado, Luis; Aguilera-Olivares, Daniel; FontÚrbel, Francisco E.; Niemeyer, Hermann M.; Pinto, Carlos F. (Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2018)© 2018 The Royal Entomological Society 1. Insects exhibiting parental care usually can discriminate between kin and non-kin individuals, allowing parents to avoid investment in foreign offspring. 2. This study investigated ...
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Aguilera Olivares, Daniel Alejandro (Universidad de Chile., 2015)La depresión endogamica se refiere a una disminución en algún componente de la adecuación biológica de una pareja sexual estrechamente emparentada y de su descendencia. Dadas las desventajas de la depresión endogamica, es ...
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Flores-Prado, Luis; Aguilera-Olivares, Daniel; Niemeyer, Hermann M. (Royal Society, 2008)In eusocial Hymenoptera, females are more tolerant towards nest-mate than towards non-nest-mate females. In solitary Hymenoptera, females are generally aggressive towards any conspecific female. Field observations of the ...
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Pinto Navia, Carlos Fernando (Universidad de Chile., 2015)Los insectos fotofagos y las plantas con las que interactúan constituyen una importante proporción de la macrodiversidad natural, donde la amplitud de la dieta de un insecto esta compuesta usualmente por un numero limitado ...
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Flores-Prado, Luis; Pinto, Carlos F.; Rojas, Alejandra; Fontúrbel, Francisco E. (John Wiley and Sons Ltd, 2014)Host plants are used by herbivorous insects as feeding or nesting resources. In wood-boring insects, host plants features may impose selective forces leading to phenotypic differentiation on traits related to nest construction. ...
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Aguilera-Olivares, Daniel; Palma-Onetto, Valeria; Flores-Prado, Luis; Zapata, Víctor; Niemeyer, Hermann M. (Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2017)© 2017 The Netherlands Entomological Society Investment in soldier production in eusocial lineages involves a trade-off between maintenance costs and defense benefits. Termites are eusocial insects that live in colonies ...