Drop when the stakes are high: adaptive, flexible use of dropping behaviour by aphids

Crucial conversations: tools for talking when the stakes are high.

Young Aphids Avoid Erroneous Dropping when Evading Mammalian Herbivores by Combining Input from Two Sensory Modalities

Mammalian herbivores may incidentally ingest plant-dwelling insects while foraging. Adult pea aphids (Acyrthosiphon pisum) avoid this danger by dropping off their host plant after sensing the herbivore's warm and humid breath and the vibrations it causes while feeding. Aphid nymphs may also drop (to escape insect enemies), but because of their slow movement, have a lower chance of finding a new...

the effect of keeping reflective journals by language instructors on the process of reading comprehension among iranian high school students

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Adaptive aerial righting during the escape dropping of wingless pea aphids

widely utilized to examine ROS levels. However, measurements based on redox-sensitive dyes such as DCFH can be problematic because they depend on dye uptake and lack any specificity towards a particular type of ROS. The advent of protein-based redox sensors like redox-sensitive GFP (roGFP) have improved specificity to particular ROS and can be targeted to different compartments within the cells...

Split or Steal? Cooperative Behavior When the Stakes Are Large

W examine cooperative behavior when large sums of money are at stake, using data from the television game show Golden Balls. At the end of each episode, contestants play a variant on the classic prisoner’s dilemma for large and widely ranging stakes averaging over $20,000. Cooperation is surprisingly high for amounts that would normally be considered consequential but look tiny in their current...