Development under predation risk increases serotonin-signaling, variability of turning behavior and survival in adult fruit flies Drosophila melanogaster

T Krama, M Munkevics, R Krams… - Frontiers in behavioral …, 2023‏ - frontiersin.org
The development of high-throughput behavioral assays, where numerous individual animals
can be analyzed in various experimental conditions, has facilitated the study of animal …

Physiological stress and higher reproductive success in bumblebees are both associated with intensive agriculture

T Krama, R Krams, M Munkevics, J Willow, S Popovs… - PeerJ, 2022‏ - peerj.com
Free-living organisms face multiple stressors in their habitats, and habitat quality often
affects development and life history traits. Increasing pressures of agricultural intensification …

Ecological stoichiometry of bumblebee castes, sexes, and age groups

R Krams, M Munkevics, S Popovs, L Dobkeviča… - Frontiers in …, 2021‏ - frontiersin.org
Ecological stoichiometry is important for revealing how the composition of chemical
elements of organisms is influenced by their physiological functions and ecology. In this …

A diabetes-like biochemical and behavioural phenotype of Drosophila induced by predator stress

T Krama, D Bahhir, L Ots, S Popovs… - … of the Royal …, 2023‏ - royalsocietypublishing.org
Predation can have both lethal and non-lethal effects on prey. The non-lethal effects of
predation can instil changes in prey life history, behaviour, morphology and physiology …