Entomology, Ornithology & Herpetology: Current Research
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Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, University of Ngaoundéré, P.O. Box 454 Ngaoundéré, Cameroon

Biography

Dr. Fri Dobo's background in Biology is essentially multidisciplinary which is the result of my several interests and the interaction with researchers, worked as a professor in the Department of Biological Sciences, University of Ngaoundéré, Cameroon.

Publications

• Research Article   
  Identification of the Optimum Temperature of Myrmeleon obscurus (Rambur, 1842)
  Author(s): Antoine Bakoidi*, Ismaila Djibo, Fri Dobo, Jean Maoge and Leonard S Ngamo Tinkeu
  
  Terrestrial ectotherms are active between precise thermal tolerance values, from lower to upper limits that impacts their survival. Arround the temperature range where the xerophilous antlion larvae are active, there is a temperature close to the upper thermal limit where vital functions are optimal. No research at our knowledge is done on the thermal tolerance of Myrmeleon obscurus (Rambur, 1842), the present investigation identifies the thermal optimum of each larval stage in a range of four temperatures: 22, 27, 35 and 40°C. It comes clear that 35°C is the temperature at which no mortality is observed resulting to 100% of adults all viable; at this temperature M. obscurus has the shortest life cycle 45.43 days... View More»
  

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