We determined which sex was more innovative and incorporated these seeds to their diet and studied if and how this newly acquired feeding habit was socially transmitted.
This acquired feeding preference seemed to be lost through starvation, but data are limited in terms of replication and other explanations are possible.
In insects, an acquired feeding preference can overcome variations in the quality and distribution of food resources, as described for honeybees (Apis mellifera), other hymenoptera and vectors of diseases, with important epidemiological implications for the latter (Thorpe & Jones 1937; Lewis & Tuminson 1988; Bicker & Hähnlein 1994).
The current analysis is designed to mimic a production process in a feed mill acquiring feed materials from a trading company.
Our aim was to study the ability of these maternal rabbit lines to acquire (feed intake) and allocate (litter size, milk production and body condition) the resources available in markedly different environments.
Like a child receiving sweets, each goody it acquires feeds its demands for more.
Using this method, we acquired the feed horn shape antenna mold.
Human pathogens acquired during feeding can be transmitted at the next feeding stage.
Importantly, a subsequent blood meal amplifies the few Leishmania parasites acquired by feeding on infected hosts by 125-fold, and increases lesion frequency by fourfold, in twice-fed compared with single-fed flies.
Earlier this month, the company acquired geo-feed aggregator Mapufacture, which will form the basis for Maker!
Further, we show that symbionts acquired by feeding may be ultimately excreted ("contamination"), or invade the hemocoel and persist throughout the host lifetime, two distinct and sequential steps in the establishment of a long term association.
