Sperm quantity and quality during storage may be constraints acting on female fecundity and hence fitness. In Hymenoptera, the importance of sperm quality has rarely been considered, despite its central role in reproductive strategies and especially in sex ratio control. In these insects, fertilized eggs develop into females and unfertilized eggs into males. Experiments were conducted on the fe...

This study aimed to determine the effect of adding 96% ethanol extract green tea (Camellia sinensis) in egg yolk tris diluter on quality spermatozoa Bali cattle (Bos sondaicus) after freezing. The samples were divided into four different treatment groups, which contained semen sample + 13% glycerol each (P0) 0 mg/100 ml, (P1) 0,05 ( P2) 0,10 and (P3) 0,15 ml. variables observed included motilit...

For organisms with complex life histories, carry-over effects (COEs) can manifest between life stages, when conditions experienced by one stage influence the next, as well as trans-generationally, when the parental environment affects offspring. Here we used multiple global change-associated stressors to examine both forms of COE simultaneously in an intertidal limpet with mixed development (i....

Avian chemical communication is a rapidly emerging field, but has been hampered by a critical lack of information on volatile chemicals that communicate ecologically relevant information (semiochemicals). A possible, but as yet unexplored, function of olfaction and chemical communication in birds is in parent-embryo and embryo-embryo communication. Communication between parents and developing e...

Mortality rates of eggs and nauplii are essential for understanding and modelling dynamics of copepod populations. Abundances of Calanus finmarchicus females, eggs and nauplii were determined at 88 stations in the Labrador Sea. Egg production rates (EPRs) and egg and naupliar stage durations were calculated using published relationships with in situ chlorophyll concentration and temperature. Th...

The presence of a mixture of progestogens at ng/L concentration levels in surface waters is a worldwide problem. Only a few studies explore the effect of progestogen treatment in a mixture as opposed to individual chemicals to shed light on how non-target species respond to these contaminants. In the present study, we used an invertebrate model species, Lymnaea stagnalis, exposed to a mixture o...