Femme fatale?

She’s a femme fatale: low-density larval development produces good disease vectors

Two hypotheses for how conditions for larval mosquitoes affect vectorial capacity make opposite predictions about the relationship of adult size and frequency of infection with vector-borne pathogens. Competition among larvae produces small adult females. The competition-susceptibility hypothesis postulates that small females are more susceptible to infection and predicts frequency of infection...

La femme fatale: the female psychopath in fiction and clinical practice

Purpose – Literature and legend features many dangerous female characters. However, in fiction (and in film), it is the male psychopath who dominates. In the scientific literature, research into psychopathy in men also dominates. Studies of the nature and treatment of this severe personality disorder in women are sparse and little is known or agreed about its presentation in this group. Consequ...

Sexual deception in a cannibalistic mating system? Testing the Femme Fatale hypothesis.

Animal communication theory holds that in order to be evolutionarily stable, signals must be honest on average, but significant dishonesty (i.e. deception) by a subset of the population may also evolve. A typical praying mantid mating system involves active mate searching by males, which is guided by airborne sex pheromones in most species for which mate-searching cues have been studied. The Fe...

The Femme Fatale and the Exotic Queer within Shinya Tuskamoto's Tetsuo: Gender as Narrative Tool within an Allegory for Post WWII Japan's Industrialized Identity Crisis

Anguillulose maligne d’évolution fatale au cours d'un pemphigus végétant

L'anguillulose intestinale est rare. Les formes malignes surviennent généralement au cours d'une immunodépression. Notre observation souligne la gravité de l'anguillulose en cas de maladie auto-immune notamment le pemphigus et l'inefficacité de l'Albendazole dans ces situations à risque. Pan African Medical Journal. 2015; 20:263 doi:10.11604/pamj.2015.20.263.6524 This article is available onlin...