@article{KarpatiDeutschKissetal.2023,
  author    = {K{\´a}rp{\´a}ti, Zsolt and Deutsch, Ferenc and Kiss, Bal{\´a}zs and Schmitt, Thomas},
  title     = {Seasonal changes in photoperiod and temperature lead to changes in cuticular hydrocarbon profiles and affect mating success in Drosophila suzukii},
  series = {Scientific Reports},
  volume    = {13},
  journal   = {Scientific Reports},
  doi       = {10.1038/s41598-023-32652-y},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-358095},
  year      = {2023},
  abstract  = {Seasonal plasticity in insects is often triggered by temperature and photoperiod changes. When climatic conditions become sub-optimal, insects might undergo reproductive diapause, a form of seasonal plasticity delaying the development of reproductive organs and activities. During the reproductive diapause, the cuticular hydrocarbon (CHC) profile, which covers the insect body surface, might also change to protect insects from desiccation and cold temperature. However, CHCs are often important cues and signals for mate recognition and changes in CHC composition might affect mate recognition. In the present study, we investigated the CHC profile composition and the mating success of Drosophila suzukii in 1- and 5-day-old males and females of summer and winter morphs. CHC compositions differed with age and morphs. However, no significant differences were found between the sexes of the same age and morph. The results of the behavioral assays show that summer morph pairs start to mate earlier in their life, have a shorter mating duration, and have more offspring compared to winter morph pairs. We hypothesize that CHC profiles of winter morphs are adapted to survive winter conditions, potentially at the cost of reduced mate recognition cues.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{Middelhoff2017,
  author    = {Middelhoff, Frederike},
  title     = {Literary autozoographies: contextualizing species life in german animal autobiography},
  series = {Humanities},
  volume    = {6},
  journal   = {Humanities},
  number    = {2},
  publisher = {MDPI},
  issn      = {2076-0787},
  doi       = {10.3390/h6020023},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-198052},
  pages     = {23},
  year      = {2017},
  abstract  = {What does it mean to take animal autobiography seriously and how can we account for the representation of life-narrating animals? The article investigates animal autobiographies as 'literary autozoographies', drawing attention to both the generic contexts and the epistemological premises of these texts. Adopting a double-bind approach stemming from autobiographical research as well as cultural animal studies, the article focuses on early nineteenth-century equine autozoographies from the German-speaking tradition. These texts are discussed exemplarily in relation to the parameters of fictional autobiographies, before they are contextualized with historical discourses regarding horses in natural history and so-called 'horse-science'. Due to the fact that the poetics and aesthetics of the genre are modeled on the templates of factual autobiographies, the article argues that literary autozoographies can be read as fictional autobiographies as well as meta-auto/biographical discourse undermining autobiographical conventions. Furthermore, it shows that literary autozoography and zoology share a common historical and ideological epistemology accounting for the representation of animals in both fields. Literary autozoographies thus participate in the negotiation and production of species-specific knowledge. Reading Life of the Mecklenburg Mare Amante (1804), Life of a Job Horse (1807) and Life of a Worn-Out Hack (1819) alongside equine-centric discourses around 1800, the article demonstrates in what ways these texts can be regarded as part of a regime of knowledge attributing emotions and cognitive capacities to horses, while simultaneously arguing for humane treatment on the basis of interspecies homologies.},
  language  = {en}
}