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Details of my studies and interest in invertebrates
Edward Baker
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- April 10, 2009
- 11:21 AM
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Fruit Fly Competitive Sexual Practices
by Edward Baker in Invertebrate Diaries
This is the second post I have made on peer-reviewed research. I did intend to make them more regular, and I will endeavor to do more soon.This paper essentially deals with sexual selection (females choose the males they want to mate with) and some 'tricks' used by males to increase the likelihood of their sperm being used to fertilise the female's eggs.The male's sperm is delivered within the seminal fluid. The seminal fluid contains a mixture of energy and nutrient rich chemicals to ensure the........ Read more »
Wigby, S., Sirot, L., Linklater, J., Buehner, N., Calboli, F., Bretman, A., Wolfner, M., & Chapman, T. (2009) Seminal Fluid Protein Allocation and Male Reproductive Success. Current Biology. DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2009.03.036
- February 6, 2009
- 12:00 AM
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On Ants & Butterflies
by Edward Baker in Invertebrate Diaries
This post marks the beginning of something I've been meaning to start for a long time: blogging about peer-reviewed research. The Research Blogging site has some cool features for doing this, and so this is a bit of an experiment into how all of that works.The first paper is on ants, an invertebrate certainly, but not one I'm an expert on. The reason it appealed to me, I think, boils down to seeing a talk by Bert Hölldobler (of Hölldobler & Wilson fame) recently at the Natural History Museum. ........ Read more »
Francesca Barbero, Jeremy A Thomas, Simona Bonelli, Emilio Balletto, & Karsten Schönrogge. (2009) Queen Ants Make Distinctive Sounds That Are Mimicked by a Butterfly Social Parasite. Science, 782.
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