#larval — Public Fediverse posts

#Cotoneaster #berries. They're similar to firethorn plants but are thornless with serated leaf margins. Their flowers & fruits are toxic for humans but have excellent #WildlifeValue.
These are #larval food plants for several insects. Their flowers attract many #pollinators. Their fruits are eaten by multiple birds - blackbirds especially love eating these berries in Winter.
It's been cultivated by landscapers for wildlife value & soil erosion prevention. It's grown in many public & private areas around here - I see it almost everywhere. Birds have spread their seeds afar.

I don't know which variety of cotoneaster this is - there are a lot of varieties.

Spotted at Burnside Medical Clinic parking lot.

#PlantID #botanical #nature #Saanich #horticulture #VictoriaBC #plants #landscaping #VancouverIsland #VanIsle #PacificNorthwest #PNW #shrubs #hedges #PoisonousForHumans

Surprising #hormone-related #gene activity discovered in the early #larval stage of the Malabar #grouper.

#Epinephelus #metamorphosis #transcriptomics

https://phys.org/news/2024-09-hormone-gene-early-larval-stage.html

More #eggs that hatch into #larval #insects is great news for #stream #restoration because the re-establishment of #organisms, such as insects, is often slower than expected in restored streams
#EarthScience #Environmental #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2023/12/es12132302.html

📰 "Chloride-dependent mechanisms of multimodal sensory discrimination and nociceptive sensitization in Drosophila"
by 🔬 Nathaniel J Himmel, Akira Sakurai, Atit A Patel, Shatabdi Bhattacharjee, Jamin M Letcher, Maggie N Benson, Thomas R Gray, Gennady S Cymbalyuk, Daniel N Cox
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36688373/ #Drosophila #Sensory #Larval

📰 "Secreted Decoy of Insulin Receptor is Required for Blood-Brain and Blood-Retina Barrier Integrity in Drosophila"
by 🔬 Jihyun Kim, Nuri Choi, Jeongsil Kim-Ha
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36593109/ #Drosophila #Embryonic #Larval #Adult

📰 "Origin of wiring specificity in an olfactory map: dendrite targeting of projection neurons"
by 🔬 Wong, K. K. L., Li, T., Fu, T.-M., Liu, G., Lyu, C., Kohani, S., Xie, Q., Luginbuhl, D. J., Upadhyayula, G., Betzig, E., Luo, L.
http://biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.12.28.522173v1?rss=1 #Drosophila #Larval #Adult

📰 "Tailup expression in Drosophila larval and adult cardiac valve cells"
by 🔬 Christian Meyer, Laetitia Bataillé, Maik Drechsler, Achim Paululat
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36546531/ #Drosophila #Larval #Adult

📰 "Rewarding capacity of optogenetically activating a giant GABAergic central-brain interneuron in larval Drosophila"
by 🔬 Mancini, N., Thoener, J., Tafani, E., Pauls, D., Mayseless, O., Strauch, M., Eichler, K., Champion, A., Kobler, O., Weber, D., Sen, E., Weiglein, A., Hartenstein, V., Thum, A. S., Rohwedder, A., Schleyer, M., Gerber, B.
http://biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.12.19.521052v1?rss=1 #DrosophilaMelanogaster #Drosophila #Sensory #Larval

📰 "Immunofluorescence as a Method to Study Golgi Organization in Larval Salivary Glands of Drosophila melanogaster"
by 🔬 Tetyana Chorna, Julie A Brill
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36512207/ #DrosophilaMelanogaster #Drosophila #Larval