Infection dynamics of a sexually transmitted nematode (<i>Mehdinema alii</i>) in the decorated cricket (<i>Gryllodes sigillatus</i>)
Bibliographic record
Abstract
We investigated the transmission dynamics of a sexually transmitted nematode, Mehdinema alii, in the decorated cricket, Gryllodes sigillatus. Adult crickets were experimentally inoculated with infective stages of the nematode, called dauerlarvae, to determine the role of the female cricket in nematode transmission. We found that female crickets serve only as a means of mechanical transmission, so nematodes do not require passage through a female cricket to be infective. Dauerlarvae were experimentally placed on the genitalia of both sexes. In the male, the dauerlarvae migrated into the gut and proceeded to develop into adult nematodes, whereas those that were inoculated into the female genitalia failed to migrate into the gut. When dauerlarvae were inoculated directly into the female rectum, the nematodes failed to develop. Therefore, the female gut is not a suitable environment for nematode development. Dauerlarvae persisted in the female cricket for up to 12 days post inoculation and remained infective to male crickets.
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Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| 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 | 0.000 |
| 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 source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
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