Species Connect | Melina Fredes | Activity https://speciesconnect.com/members/melina-fredes/activity/ Activity feed for Melina Fredes. Fri, 15 May 2026 03:02:25 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=5.1.1 en-US 30 hourly 2 5179f9d2ca42abaa0ba6b5182c5a2691 Melina Fredes wrote a new item https://speciesconnect.com/?p=625113 Tue, 15 Nov 2022 16:13:13 -0500 Great observation by user nkerba on inaturalist.org of a mink eating a bowfin

]]> 0 1c75ec0aca1f98cd7695dcce887943ab Melina Fredes wrote a new item https://speciesconnect.com/?p=624772 Wed, 07 Sep 2022 21:50:01 -0400 In this video you can see a donkey killing a hyena with biting the hyena.

]]> 0 59ec336c4a94e7d648c91db803bd83aa Melina Fredes wrote a new item https://speciesconnect.com/?p=624769 Wed, 07 Sep 2022 21:41:15 -0400 Donkeys protect livestock from pumas.

Donkeys are being used in Argentina to protect livestock from pumas. Once you put donkeys around cattle, puma predation on cattle immediately stops. It seems that donkeys […]

]]> 0 cbde503eca1be3252664d6ed57ac161d Melina Fredes wrote a new item https://speciesconnect.com/?p=624624 Sun, 28 Aug 2022 17:36:38 -0400 Bramble mouse eating his berries

]]> 0 9027f699803a8e4a4ebca8aecc48f5bd Melina Fredes wrote a new item https://speciesconnect.com/?p=624122 Mon, 02 May 2022 17:43:39 -0400 Honeyguides birds are also ferocious brood parasites.

Honeyguide birds in Africa are well known for their mutualistic interspecific interaction with human. But honeyguides are also brutal brood parasites of […]

]]> 0 93be55093cbe68b78abe1624e8d8f7df Melina Fredes wrote a new item https://speciesconnect.com/?p=624054 Fri, 22 Apr 2022 17:14:34 -0400 This study identifies the drivers of evolution toward maturity at an earlier age in Atlantic salmon: an indirect effect linked with harvest of a salmon prey species, capelin, (selection against late maturation) […]

]]> 0 7c6d8baf8e4e960000ad1b9f2696a5e2 Melina Fredes wrote a new item https://speciesconnect.com/?p=623983 Fri, 15 Apr 2022 15:54:48 -0400 Lab experiments have identified a mutation that would make the mosquito-borne Zika virus more infectious and virulent, a finding that will inform genomic surveillance

]]> 0 1bdb18df1ae202ddb40e458658f1f423 Melina Fredes wrote a new item https://speciesconnect.com/?p=623879 Fri, 01 Apr 2022 17:14:51 -0400 From TW Hays Cummins, Ph.D. @topreef : A beautiful Flamingo Tongue feeding on a sea fan, San Salvador, Bahamas, Miami Univ Marine Ecology course, May 2014

]]> 0 8e50179ac3eb8d327d86bf43253ad9a9 Melina Fredes wrote a new item https://speciesconnect.com/?p=623802 Fri, 25 Mar 2022 19:33:59 -0400 A Robber Fly (Asilidae) takes down a Redbase Jezebel butterfly (Delias pasithoe, Pieridae)
in Yunnan, China. Shared in TW by John Horstman @sinobug

]]> 0 f0904cbb7d4c0aa6b759c6a504a7e237 Melina Fredes wrote a new item https://speciesconnect.com/?p=623686 Wed, 02 Mar 2022 19:55:18 -0500 Endolithic algae blooms can significantly alleviate the high light stress that affects the remaining symbionts when the coral has achieved the bleached phenotype.

]]> 0 e702e8003062d697f5389beb77dd7d05 Melina Fredes wrote a new item https://speciesconnect.com/?p=623529 Sat, 12 Feb 2022 15:30:04 -0500 Diet leaves a genetic signature in a keystone member of the gut microbiota. The authors show that dietary changes leave a genetic signature in microbiome members and suggest that B. thetaiotaomicron genetic […]

]]> 0 183c2770562ec59a7b148a63d471a56b Melina Fredes wrote a new item https://speciesconnect.com/?p=623402 Thu, 27 Jan 2022 19:29:19 -0500 Carnivorous pitcher plants have a mutualistic relationship with malaysian land crab. Carnivorous pitcher plants catch small insects and dead leaves and digests them with enzymes. The malaysian land crab is one of […]

]]> 0 0abb65446a868214c313f8a73fcc50bb Melina Fredes wrote a new item https://speciesconnect.com/?p=623323 Tue, 18 Jan 2022 20:25:23 -0500 Five-spotted hawkmoth caterpillar parasitized by a small parasitoid wasp Cotesia congregata. Photo by Elizabeth O. Weller

]]> 0 c791eac302d234f8602973baec7146f6 Melina Fredes wrote a new item https://speciesconnect.com/?p=623250 Sun, 09 Jan 2022 20:11:04 -0500 Lichens formed between fungi and green algae or cyanobacteria are a mutualistic symbioses. Functions such as light perception or resistance to dehydration were shared between lichenizing algae, indicating that […]

]]> 0 2840d5c97334a5aeb66111fb25851801 Melina Fredes wrote a new item https://speciesconnect.com/?p=623218 Fri, 07 Jan 2022 19:58:53 -0500 Great review paper: Molecular Aspects of Plant Growth Promotion and Protection by Bacillus subtilis. B. subtilis improves nutrient availability. B. subtilis reduces abiotic stress. Protects plants through […]

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