Aim of study: Assessment toxicity and sublethal effects registered insecticides currently used in strawberry cultivation Brazil on Trichogramma pretiosum Riley adults.Area The study was conducted under laboratory conditions Paraná (Brazil).Material methods: Previously non-parasitized Duponchelia fovealis Zeller (Lepidoptera: Cambridae) eggs were dipped into insecticide dilutions or control solu...

Little is known about effects of maternally transferred contaminants in snakes. The purpose of this study was to evaluate sublethal effects of maternally transferred mercury (Hg) on neonatal northern watersnakes (Nerodia sipedon). We captured 31 gravid females along a historically Hg-contaminated river. Following birth, we measured litter Hg concentrations and assessed locomotor performance, fo...

One major, yet poorly studied, change in the environment is nocturnal light pollution, which strongly alters habitats of nocturnally active species. Artificial night lighting is often considered as driving force behind rapid moth population declines in severely illuminated countries. To understand these declines, the question remains whether artificial light causes only increased mortality or a...

For many years ecologists have documented the remarkable within-species variation inherent in natural systems-for example, variability in juvenile growth rates, mortality rates, fecundities, time to reproductive maturity, the outcomes of competitive interactions, and tolerance to pollutants. Over the past 20 years, it has become increasingly apparent that at least some of this variation may ref...

fed a diet consisting of natural foodstuffs than when main tained on a semipurified ration. Whereas these comparative differences between stock rations and purified diets relative to tumor incidence have been evaluated in terms of carcinogenic compounds and spontaneously appearing tumors, to our knowledge this effect has never been assessed in regards to exposure to sublethal doses of total-bod...

New information on the lethal and sublethal effects of neonicotinoids and fipronil on organisms is presented in this review, complementing the previous Worldwide Integrated Assessment (WIA) in 2015. The high toxicity of these systemic insecticides to invertebrates has been confirmed and expanded to include more species and compounds. Most of the recent research has focused on bees and the suble...

Angiogenesis is essential for tumor growth and metastasis. Because endothelial cells are genetically stable, they rarely acquire resistance to anticancer modalities, and could, thus, be a suitable target for radiation therapy. Heavy ion radiation therapy has attracted attention as an effective modality for cancer therapy because of its highly lethal effects, but the effects of heavy ion irradia...

BACKGROUND Thiamethoxam, clothianidin, and imidacloprid are the most commonly used neonicotinoid insecticides on the Canadian prairies. There is widespread contamination of nectar and pollen with neonicotinoids, at concentrations which are sublethal for honey bees (Apis mellifera Linnaeus). OBJECTIVE We compared the effects of chronic, sublethal exposure to the three most commonly used neonic...

fed a diet consisting of natural foodstuffs than when main tained on a semipurified ration. Whereas these comparative differences between stock rations and purified diets relative to tumor incidence have been evaluated in terms of carcinogenic compounds and spontaneously appearing tumors, to our knowledge this effect has never been assessed in regards to exposure to sublethal doses of total-bod...

It has been suggested that sexual signals may be a useful measure of environmental quality as they represent the sum of environmental pressures on the animal. Accordingly, it has been proposed that carotenoid-based coloration may be especially valuable in monitoring and detecting the sublethal effects of toxic pollutants in the environment. Here, we evaluate whether the carotenoid-based colorat...