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Crocodiles and Alligators: Physicians’ Answer to Cancer?
Current Oncology, 2019 Despite advances in therapeutic approaches and supportive care, cancer remains a significant burden on human health.[...]
Naveed Ahmed Khan +2 more
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Social Signals and Behaviors of Adult Alligators and Crocodiles [PDF]
American Zoologist, 1977 We compare and contrast the signalling systems and social behaviors of Alligator mississippiensis, Crocodylus aculus, and Crocodylus mloticus . Our qualitative analysis focuses primarily on the behaviors of adults during three phases of reproduction: I. Defense of Territory and Courtship, II. Nesting and Incubation, and III. Hatching and Post Hatching.
LESLIE D. GARRICK, JEFFREY W. LANG
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Alligators and crocodiles as indicators for restoration of Everglades ecosystems
Ecological Indicators, 2009 Abstract Alligators and crocodiles integrate biological impacts of hydrological operations, affecting them at all life stages through three key aspects of Everglades ecology: (1) food webs, (2) diversity and productivity, and (3) freshwater flow. Responses of crocodilians are directly related to suitability of environmental conditions and hydrologic ...
University of Florida, Fort Lauderdale Research and Education Center College Avenue, Davie, FL 33314, United States ( host institution ) +6 more
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Alligators and Crocodiles Have High Paracellular Absorption of Nutrients, But Differ in Digestive Morphology and Physiology [PDF]
Integrative and Comparative Biology, 2015 Much of what is known about crocodilian nutrition and growth has come from animals propagated in captivity, but captive animals from the families Crocodilidae and Alligatoridae respond differently to similar diets. Since there are few comparative studies of crocodilian digestive physiology to help explain these differences, we investigated young ...
Tracy, C. +7 more
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XXVII. On the communications between the cavity of the tympanum and the palate in the crocodilia (gavials, alligators and crocodiles) [PDF]
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of LondonThere are three perforations which succeed each other along the middle line of the base of the cranium in the Crocodilian Reptiles. The hindmost (Plate XL. fig. 1, v ), situated in the basioccipital, near the condyle, is the smallest and least conÂstant in size and existence: it gives passage to a vein, which ...
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Pulmonary anatomy in the Nile crocodile and the evolution of unidirectional airflow in Archosauria [PDF]
PeerJ, 2013 The lungs of birds have long been known to move air in only one direction during both inspiration and expiration through most of the tubular gas-exchanging bronchi (parabronchi).
Emma R. Schachner +2 more
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Scientific Reports, 2022 Pathologic eggs have been documented in the amniote eggs of birds, turtles, and dinosaurs. These eggs occur either in the form of one egg within another egg, a condition known as ovum-in-ovo or multi-shelled eggs showing additional pathological eggshell ...
Harsha Dhiman +2 more
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Alligator mississippiensis [PDF]
, 1994 Number of Pages: 14Integrative BiologyGeological ...
Ernst, Carl H., Ross, Charles A.
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, 1999 Number of Pages: 17Integrative BiologyGeological ...
Ernst, Carl H. +2 more
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