Folk taxonomy and indigenous names for frogs in Zululand, South Africa
Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine, 2019 Background We use taxonomy to organize the world into recognizable units. Folk taxonomy deals with the naming and classification of organisms through culture. Unlike its scientific counterpart, folk taxonomy is mostly undocumented, the Zoological Code of
Fortunate M. Phaka +3 more
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Melanesia holds the world’s most diverse and intact insular amphibian fauna
Communications Biology, 2022 Melanesia, centred on the vast tropical island of New Guinea, is shown to have the most diverse and intact insular frog fauna in the world.
Paul M. Oliver +15 more
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Lipid Droplet‐Localized Spindle Apparatus Coiled‐Coil Protein 1 Regulates Lipid Droplet Distribution
Advanced Science, EarlyView.SPDL1‐L, a long isoform of SPDL1, is identified as a bona fide lipid droplet‐associated protein that acts as a dynein adaptor to drive perinuclear clustering of lipid droplets. By linking lipid droplets to the microtubule network, SPDL1‐L extends the function of SPDL1 beyond mitosis and contributes to lipid droplet organization and nuclear remodeling ...
Honggang Su +10 more
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Environmental Factors Affecting Amphibian Communities in River Basins of the Southern Apennines
Diversity, 2023 The study of the environmental features affecting amphibian communities is a priority task for addressing effective conservation initiatives. In the southern edge of the Apennines (Sila Massif, Calabria Region, Italy), we surveyed the distribution of ...
Alessandro Nessi +6 more
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Characterizing the zebrafish organizer: microsurgical analysis at the early-shield stage [PDF]
, 1996 The appearance of the embryonic shield, a slight thickening at the leading edge of the blastoderm during the formation of the germ ring, is one of the first signs of dorsoventral polarity in the zebrafish embryo.
Fraser, Scott E., Shih, John
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Phylogenetic signal in amphibian sensitivity to copper sulfate relative to experimental temperature [PDF]
, 2015 The release of large quantities of chemicals into the environment represents a major source of environmental disturbance. In recent years, the focus of ecotoxicology has shifted from describing the effects of chemical contaminants on individual species ...
Capellini, Isabella +5 more
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Advanced Science, EarlyView.In this study, the orange‐muscle giant abalone (Haliotis gigantea) is used as a model to identify a non‐coding SNP that disrupts the interaction between ITGA8 pre‐mRNA and the splicing factor ILF2, leading to altered ITGA8 splicing. These splicing changes promote carotenoid accumulation in abalone muscle through the regulation of tissue remodeling ...
Xiaohui Wei +17 more
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Characterization of the interactions between the resident microbial flora and chytridimycoses in Desmognathus fuscus communities of Central Virginia [PDF]
, 2018 Undergraduate ...
Burnham, Micah +2 more
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The Immunoglobulins of Cold-Blooded Vertebrates [PDF]
, 2014 Peer reviewedPublisher ...
Chen +22 more
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Reprogrammable Phase‐Transition Composites for Adaptive Dynamic Shape Morphing
Advanced Science, EarlyView.This paper reports a bio‐inspired reprogrammable phase‐transition composites that uses the stiffness change induced by reversible solid‐liquid phase transition to program and regulate the material deformation actuated by reversible liquid‐vapor phase transition, thereby achieving adaptive dynamic deformation in a controllable manner, and enabling ...
Yiding Zhong +8 more
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