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Effects of Parasites on Cyphoderris Monstrossa.

2021· article· en· W3214704342 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueStudent Research Proceedings · 2021
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEnvironmental Science
TopicParasite Biology and Host Interactions
Canadian institutionsMacEwan University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsSpermatophoreBiologyParasitismMatingAttractivenessZoologyHost (biology)MidgutEcologyHindgutLarva
DOInot available

Abstract

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Parasitism is the most successsful feeding strategy in nature with an estimated 50% of species being parasitic. Gregarines are endoparasites living mostly in the midgut of invertebrates. Gregarines can have a positive and/or negative effect on its host depending on various factors such as environmental conditions. Cyphoderris monstrossa, an orthoptera, has a mating strategy in which the female feeds on the hind wings of males during mating. This mating strategy has shown to be energetically costly to males. Parasitism is also costly to species and combined with a costly mating strategy can be deadly to a species. Gregarines are very host specific and to date no research has been done on parasitism in Cyphoderris monstrossa. This study determined what effects these parasites have on male Cyphoderris in terms of 1) their body size, 2) body condition in terms of weight, 3) spermatophore production, and 4) their attractiveness. Since damaged hindwings indicate mating success, an increase in damage can indicate male attractiveness and thus can be used to determine the effects of parasites on male attractiveness. Thirty-seven specimens were measure and dissected and found that 37% of specimens were infected with infection ranging between 1 and 88000 and was determined that gregarines infect the digestive tract, specifically the midgut and into the hindgut. This study determined that gregarines do not affect the overall size, attractiveness, body condition, and spermatophore production of Cyphoderris monstrossa. Department: Biology Faculty Mentor: Dr. Kevin Judge

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Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.076
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.001

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Opus teacher head0.055
GPT teacher head0.467
Teacher spread0.412 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it