Occurrence of \u3ci\u3ePomerantzia Kethleyi\u3c/i\u3e (Acari: Prostigmata: Pomerantziidae) in Illinois and Minnesota

The soil mite Pomerantzia kethleyi, is recorded from Illinois and Minnesota for the first time. The microhabitat of the Minnesota site is the first record of a pomerantziid from coarse sand-gravel near the surface

Laurel city schools: evaluation of the George S. Gardiner High School and the Stewart M. Jones Junior High School: report of the visiting committee

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A meta-analysis of host specificity in Neotropical hard ticks (Acari: Ixodidae)

Host specificity of Neotropical hard ticks (Acari: Ixodidae) was analyzed by using the number of hosts species for each tick species and the index of host specificity STD*, which integrates phylogenetic and ecological information. The analyses were based on 4172 records of hard ticks collected from wild and domestic tetrapods. Most tick species included in this study were associated with three to 20 host species. No tick species has been associated either with a single species or with a single genus of host. It was found that the number of host species is sensitive to sampling effort, but not the STD*. The most frequent values of STD* were between 2.5 and 3.5, which shows that the host species more frequently used by Neotropical hard tick species belong to different families or different orders. Immature stages tend to use a broader taxonomic range of hosts than adults, and the interpretation of both measures of host specificity used in this study led to the conclusion that the impact of non-endemic hosts does not alter the patterns of host specificity in Neotropical hard ticks. The index STD* showed that a high proportion of tick species has phylogenetically unrelated species as principal hosts. The conclusion reached in this work indicates that strict host specificity is not common among Neotropical hard ticks and suggests that the influence of tick ecology and evolution of habitat specificity, tick generation time, phenology, time spent off the host and the type of life-cycle could be more important than hosts species.Fil: Nava, Santiago. Instituto Nacional de Tecnologia Agropecuaria. Centro Regional Santa Fe. Estacion Experimental Agropecuaria Rafaela; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Santa Fe; ArgentinaFil: Guglielmone, Alberto Alejandro. Instituto Nacional de Tecnologia Agropecuaria. Centro Regional Santa Fe. Estacion Experimental Agropecuaria Rafaela; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Santa Fe; Argentin

Parentalidade versus produtividade acadêmica: estudo sobre mães docentes de universidades

This article proposes a reflection on the apparent opposition between parenting and the productivity of women in the academy, considering that mothers have their academic production crossed by this reality of parental care that affects a relative decrease in academic productivity. By looking specifically at the academic production of female teachers at Federal Institutions of Higher Education in the Northeast region, during the period of the COVID-19 pandemic, we have verified a relevant decrease in their production, and we infer that this decrease is directly related to the context of parental care and the overload of domestic work that characterizes this group. This is research anchored in the perspective of intersectionality that seeks to question the misogynist model of the Brazilian University that naturalizes the adverse working conditions of women, disregarding the machismo that crosses social practices in different instances of our society, defining different social places at different times women.O presente artigo propõe uma reflexão sobre a aparente oposição entre a parentalidade e a produtividade das mulheres na academia, considerando que mães têm a sua produção acadêmica atravessada por essa realidade de cuidados parentais que incidem em uma relativa diminuição da produtividade acadêmica. Ao nos debruçarmos especificamente sobre a produção acadêmica de mulheres mães professoras de Instituições Federais de Ensino Superior do Nordeste, durante o período da pandemia da COVID-19, aferimos uma relevante diminuição de sua produção, e inferimos que essa diminuição se relaciona diretamente com o contexto dos cuidados parentais e da sobrecarga de trabalho doméstico que caracteriza esse grupo. Trata-se de uma pesquisa ancorada na perspectiva da interseccionalidade que busca questionar o modelo misógino da Universidade brasileira que naturaliza as condições adversas de trabalho das mulheres, desconsiderando o machismo que atravessa as práticas sociais em diferentes instâncias de nossa sociedade, definindo lugares sociais distintos às mulheres

Large body size constrains dispersal assembly of communities even across short distances

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The effect of relative humidity and temperature on the effectiveness of samplers used in aerobiological studies

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