Og DeSouza

Intra and interspecific symbioses and collective behaviour involving termites. Prof: @EntomologiaUFV. Editor: @Sociobiology12 (Diamond Open Sci) & @InsectDivers

[Og DeSouza @ogdesouza]

"No meu velório nenhum político comparecerá. Eles sabem que eu levantaria do caixão para vaiá-los." Rita Lee (*1947 +2023)

Meu tributo à "ovelha negra da família"! Rainha do Rock e das declarações pungentes. O Brasil ficou ainda mais pobre de música e de capacidade de crítica.

[Companhia das Letras @cialetras]

Feliz dia do leitor 🧡

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Admit you’re old. Retweet if you know what this is…

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This is the timeless self-sorting method for termite processing by Tamashiro et al. 1973. Within 30min, 95% of all termites are located in the moist wood refuge, clean from debris, ready to be used for experiments.

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A kind reminder that only 3% of termite species in the world have a significant pest status. Most species have a fundamental ecological role. Most termites are Good termites.

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In this article, the arboreal ant Temnothorax convexus (Forel, 1894) is reported for the first time in Portugal. An update of the Portuguese ant checklist is provided, rising the final species number to 132 in the country.
https://t.co/iuMIENf1AN

[Og DeSouza @ogdesouza]

With 100 new reads, your article was the most read research item from your department

https://t.co/BcaRCvL3aI via @researchgate

[Og DeSouza @ogdesouza]

@helder_hugo @icouzin @MPI_animalbehav @CollectiveBehav @CBehav @imprs_qbee @UniKonstanz @EntomologiaUFV well done!!!!👏👏👏🍾🍾🍾🥳

[Og DeSouza @ogdesouza]

@oaks_galls Well it's more to do with the investment in soldiers that with the propensity to fight. That is, the colony starts producing less soldiers and, thence, lowers defensive powers as a whole.

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Which triggers promote the first successful contact between guests and hosts, thence originating the symbiotic association?

https://t.co/nwQ550CHJD

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This article shows that, for ants, long-term pitfall trapping ended, on average, reducing all ants' populations in between -3.8 and -4.1%, and Ectatomma ruidum between -4.7 and -5.1%.
https://t.co/pJVdBCT0ym

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Effects of Habitat Conversion on Ant Functional Groups: A Global Review
In this review article the authors reveal that land use change impacts the diversity of FG of ants in tropical and temperate ecosystems, but in different ways. https://t.co/EFGY0AocYk

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Response of Three Kinds of Detoxifying Enzymes from Odontotermes formosanus (Shiraki) to the Stress Caused by Serratia marcescens Bizio (SM1).

Research suggests that detoxifying enzimes may have led to a complex termite immune response against pathogens. https://t.co/2yfPZkLnFE

[Og DeSouza @ogdesouza]

@ChouvencL Unfortunately, that was not the first time I see this same comment! Gee, how can the human mind be so twisted?

[Og DeSouza @ogdesouza]

@LecuitLab Je liked it vraiment. E agora estou en train de make it trilingue ;-)

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Now it is official: termite mandibles have a lot to tell us about propensity to inquilinism https://t.co/foWyGidLPc

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I'm very proud of being awarded the Peter Henry Rolfs Golden Medal for Merit in Teaching at Federal University of Viçosa

https://t.co/kQI2PAFUhZ

[Og DeSouza @ogdesouza]

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