Influence of Temperature on Oviposition by<i>Dermacentor andersoni</i>(Acari: Ixodidae)
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The effects of temperature on oviposition by Dermacentor andersoni (Stiles) was examined using replete females ranging in weight from 30 to 1,198 mg. Survivorship was >96% during the preoviposition periods and declined during oviposition period. Egg production peaked earlier and at greater levels as temperature increased. Longevity, preoviposition period, and oviposition period declined as temperature increased. Replete weight had minor effects on measures of time, but smaller females tended to have greater longevity and preoviposition periods, and shorter oviposition periods. Temperature and replete weight both had large effects on measures of oviposition success such as the amount of eggs laid, the conversion efficiency index, and daily egg production. Lower temperatures and replete weight resulted in greater oviposition failure, and reduced egg production and conversion efficiency. Oviposition was greatly inhibited at 10 degrees C, suggesting this is near the lower temperature limit for development. However, egg production was reduced at temperatures < 20 degrees C, suggesting that the northern edge of the distribution may be influenced by the effects of temperature on oviposition.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".