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Development, larval aggregations and attractants of carrion beetle Necrodes littoralis (Linnaeus, 1758) (Coleoptera: Silphidae)

2016/21/B/NZ8/00788

Keywords:

Insect development Larval masses Volatile organic compounds Interspecies interactions Carrion Necrophagous insects Coleoptera Forensic entomology

Descriptors:

  • NZ8_12: Zoology
  • NZ8_2: Ecology

Panel:

NZ8 - Evolutionary and environmental biology: evolution, ecology, population biology, biodiversity, biogeography

Host institution :

Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu, Wydział Prawa i Administracji

woj. wielkopolskie

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Principal investigator (from the host institution):

dr hab. Szymon Matuszewski 

Number of co-investigators in the project: 6

Call: OPUS 11 - announced on 2016-03-15

Amount awarded: 617 880 PLN

Project start date (Y-m-d): 2017-03-03

Project end date (Y-m-d): 2021-11-02

Project duration:: 56 months (the same as in the proposal)

Project status: Project settled

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Note - project descriptions were prepared by the authors of the applications themselves and placed in the system in an unchanged form.

Equipment purchased [PL]

  1. Inkubatory laboratoryjne/szafy termostatyczne (2 szt.) (24 000 PLN)
  2. Notebook z oprogramowaniem (4 500 PLN)
  3. myjka ultradźwiękowa poj. do 1 litra - 1 sztuka.
  4. szafa termostatyczna POL-EKO ST1/1 BASIC wersja z fotoperiodem - 1 sztuka.
  5. obiektyw Planapo 0,63x M wraz z rewolwerem obiektywowym do mikroskopów Leica serii M - 1 sztuka.
  6. Kamera termowizyja Testo 885-1 (38 000 PLN)
  7. Y-olfaktometr z akcesoriami (2 szt.) (20 000 PLN)
  8. Komputer stacjonarny z urządzeniami peryferyjnymi (m.in. 2 monitory, skaner, drukarka) i oprogramowaniem (4 500 PLN)
  9. Dygestorium (2 szt.) (36 000 PLN)
  10. komputer stacjonarny Dell Optiplex 7050 MT SSD.
  11. roczna licencja programu komputerowego STATISTICA - 4 sztuki.

Information in the final report

  • Publication in academic press/journals (7)
  1. Eye-background contrast as a quantitative marker for pupal age in a forensically important carrion beetle Necrodes littoralis L. (Silphidae)
    Authors:
    Martin Novák, Katarzyna Frątczak-Łagiewska, Anna Mądra-Bielewicz, Szymon Matuszewski
    Academic press:
    Scientific Reports (rok: 2020, tom: 10, strony: 14494), Wydawca: Springer Nature
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1038/s41598-020-71369-0 - link to the publication
  2. Competition of insect decomposers over large vertebrate carrion: Necrodes beetles (Silphidae) vs blow flies (Calliphoridae)
    Authors:
    Szymon Matuszewski, Anna Mądra-Bielewicz
    Academic press:
    Current Zoology (rok: 2021, tom: Advance article, strony: 45303), Wydawca: Oxford University Press
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1093/cz/zoab100 - link to the publication
  3. Patterns and mechanisms for larval aggregation in carrion beetle Necrodes littoralis (Coleoptera: Silphidae)
    Authors:
    Joanna Gruszka, Marta Krystkowiak-Kowalska, Katarzyna Frątczak-Łagiewska, Anna Mądra-Bielewicz, Damien Charabidze, Szymon Matuszewski
    Academic press:
    Animal Behaviour (rok: 2020, tom: 162, strony: 45301), Wydawca: Academic Press
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1016/j.anbehav.2020.01.011 - link to the publication
  4. Convergence of Social Strategies in Carrion Breeding Insects
    Authors:
    Damien Charabidze, Stephen Trumbo, Andrzej Grzywacz, James T Costa, Mark E Benbow, Philip S Barton, Szymon Matuszewski
    Academic press:
    BioScience (rok: 2021, tom: 71, strony: 1028-1031), Wydawca: Oxford University Press
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1093/biosci/biab068 - link to the publication
  5. Estimation of physiological age at emergence based on traits of the forensically useful adult carrion beetle Necrodes littoralis L. (Silphidae)
    Authors:
    Joanna Gruszka, Szymon Matuszewski
    Academic press:
    Forensic Science International (rok: 2020, tom: 314, strony: 110407), Wydawca: Elsevier
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1016/j.forsciint.2020.110407 - link to the publication
  6. Insect rearing protocols in forensic entomology: Benefits from collective rearing of larvae in a carrion beetle Necrodes littoralis L. (Silphidae)
    Authors:
    Joanna Gruszka, Szymon Matuszewski
    Academic press:
    PLoS ONE (rok: 2021, tom: 16, strony: e0260680), Wydawca: Public Library of Science
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1371/journal.pone.0260680 - link to the publication
  7. Heat production in a feeding matrix formed on carrion by communally breeding beetles
    Authors:
    Szymon Matuszewski, Anna Mądra-Bielewicz
    Academic press:
    Frontiers in Zoology (rok: 2021, tom: 18, strony: 45302), Wydawca: BMC/Springer Nature
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1186/s12983-020-00385-7 - link to the publication