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Basal Anseriformes from the Early Paleogene of North America and Europe

Diversity, 2023
We describe nearly complete skeletons of basal Anseriformes from the Latest Paleocene to the early Eocene of North America and Europe. Collectively, these birds appear to be representative of anseriforms near the divergence of Anhimae and Anseres, but ...
Peter Houde, Meig Dickson
exaly   +4 more sources

Habitat Suitability Assessment of Wintering Herbivorous Anseriformes in Poyang Lake, China

Diversity, 2021
To design a good conservation strategy for herbivorous Anseriformes wintering in Poyang Lake, knowledge of habitat suitability is essential. Therefore, this study aimed to assess the habitat suitability of herbivorous Anseriformes of China’s Poyang Lake.
Megersa Tsegaye
exaly   +4 more sources

Rapid and recent diversification patterns in Anseriformes birds: Inferred from molecular phylogeny and diversification analyses.

PLoS ONE, 2017
The Anseriformes is a well-known and widely distributed bird order, with more than 150 species in the world. This paper aims to revise the classification, determine the phylogenetic relationships and diversification patterns in Anseriformes by exploring ...
Zhonglou Sun, Tao Pan, Chaochao Hu, Lu Sun, Hengwu Ding, Hui Wang, Chenling Zhang, Hong Jin, Qing Chang, Xianzhao Kan, Baowei Zhang   +10 more
doaj   +9 more sources

Welfare Assessment for Captive Anseriformes: A Guide for Practitioners and Animal Keepers [PDF]

Animals, 2020
Welfare assessment is a tool to both identify welfare challenges and to evidence where current husbandry practices support positive welfare outcomes. Such tools are becoming more available and can be amended based on the nature of the facility and needs ...
Paul Rose, Michelle O’Brien
doaj   +9 more sources

The extreme insular adaptation of Garganornis ballmanni Meijer, 2014: a giant Anseriformes of the Neogene of the Mediterranean Basin [PDF]

Royal Society Open Science, 2017
New skeletal elements of the recently described endemic giant anseriform Garganornis ballmanni Meijer, 2014 are presented, coming from the type-area of the Gargano and from Scontrone, southern and central Italy, respectively.
Hanneke Meijer, Marco Pavia, Marco Pavia   +2 more
exaly   +2 more sources

Estimation of the populations status and habitat conditions of Anseriformes in the State Nature Reserve «Gydansky» (Russia) using ultralight aviation

Nature Conservation Research: Заповедная наука, 2018
The Gydan Peninsula is one of the least explored and inaccessible Arctic regions in both the Yamalo-Nenetsky Autonomous Okrug and Russia as a whole. In 2016–2017 we conducted a survey of the Gydansky State Nature Reserve and adjacent areas, counted and ...
Sofia B. Rozenfeld, George V. Kirtaev, Natalya V. Rogova, Mikhail Yu. Soloviev, Andrey A. Gorchakovsky, Mikhail S. Bizin, Sofia S. Demianets   +6 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Molecular cytogenetic characterization of repetitive sequences comprising centromeric heterochromatin in three Anseriformes species.

PLoS ONE, 2019
The highly repetitive DNA sequence of centromeric heterochromatin is an effective molecular cytogenetic marker for investigating genomic compartmentalization between macrochromosomes and microchromosomes in birds.
Yoshinobu Uno, Chizuko Nishida, Ayano Hata, Satoshi Ishishita, Yoichi Matsuda   +4 more
doaj   +2 more sources

The complete mitochondrial genome of Aix galericulata and Tadorna ferruginea: bearings on their phylogenetic position in the Anseriformes. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2014
Aix galericulata and Tadorna ferruginea are two Anatidae species representing different taxonomic groups of Anseriformes. We used a PCR-based method to determine the complete mtDNAs of both species, and estimated phylogenetic trees based on the complete ...
Gang Liu, Lizhi Zhou, Bo Li, Lili Zhang
doaj   +2 more sources

Disentangling the drivers and host-mediated global spread of H7 influenza A virus [PDF]

Nature Communications
Avian influenza H7 viruses pose a significant zoonotic and pandemic threat, yet their evolutionary dynamics, spatial transmission patterns, and host-specific roles remain underexplored.
Rongrong Qu, Luming Yang, Siqing Li, Can Chen, Huihui Zhang, Kexin Cao, Wenkai Zhou, Mengsha Chen, Jiani Miao, Jiaxing Qi, Qianqian Feng, Jiaxin Chen, Anqi Dai, Xiaoyue Wu, Jingtong Zhou, Shigui Yang   +15 more
doaj   +2 more sources

A new Paleogene fossil and a new dataset for waterfowl (Aves: Anseriformes) clarify phylogeny, ecological evolution, and avian evolution at the K-Pg Boundary.

PLoS ONE
Despite making up one of the most ecologically diverse groups of living birds, comprising soaring, diving and giant flightless taxa, the evolutionary relationships and ecological evolution of Anseriformes (waterfowl) remain unresolved.
Grace Musser, Julia A Clarke
doaj   +2 more sources