Larvae of the Clothing Moth Tineola bisselliella Maintain Gut Bacteria that Secrete Enzyme Cocktails to Facilitate the Digestion of Keratin

The evolutionary success of insects is promoted by their association with beneficial microbes that enable the utilization of unusual diets.The synanthropic clothing moth Tineola bisselliella provides an intriguing example of this phenomenon.The caterpillars of this species have adapted to feed on keratin-rich diets such as feathers and wool, which

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Moral asymmetries and the semantics of many

We present the results of four experiments concerning the evaluations people make of sentences involving many, showing that two sentences of the form many As are Bs and many As are Cs need not be equivalent when evaluated relative to a background in which B and C have the same cardinality and Cartridges proportion to A, but in which B and C are pre

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