The objective of this study was to determine whether the tubes in which Chironomus larvae dwell protect them against chemical toxicants.A laboratory culture of an Israeli Vehicle Covers benthic midge, Chironomus luridus, was exposed to copper sulfate.Two conditions were tested in bioassay experiments: larvae within silt tubes and larvae without tub
Abstract Background Whilst adaptive facultative sex allocation has been widely studied at the phenotypic Retaining Ring level across a broad range of organisms, we still know remarkably little about its genetic architecture.Here, we explore the genome-wide basis of sex ratio variation in the parasitoid wasp Nasonia vitripennis, perhaps the best stu
The efficient and accurate detection of infrared small targets under various heterogeneous backgrounds has always been a key issue that needs to be addressed.To address this issue, this study presents a fast and robust low rank and sparse decomposition algorithm for infrared small target detection.Firstly, an infrared image patch model is construct
This paper presents a novel approach Cotton Covered Iron Cable for the joint tracking and identification (JTI) problem.JTI involves interdependent tracking and identification, and thus solving them jointly is preferable.The recently proposed joint decision and estimation (JDE) framework provides a good solution for such problems involving coupled d