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Must Longtermists Wish Us All Dead? A Quadrilemma

open access: yesJournal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Longtermists assign great moral importance to making the long‐term future as good as possible, especially by ensuring the survival of humanity. We argue, to the contrary, that on assumptions that are plausible, conservative, or shared by leading longtermists, human extinction will likely augment total utility among human and non‐human animals ...
Nir Eyal, Bastian Steuwer, Shai Meiri
wiley   +1 more source

An evaluation of the current use of the breast-shoulder apparatus characters in anurans

open access: yes, 1993
Historically, it has been accepted that all the elements of the breast-shoulder apparatus (BSA) are homologous in anurans, that the arciferal condition is primitive and the firmisternal condition derived, and that arciferal and firmisternal conditions ...
Kaplan, Moises Daniel
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Offspring Global DNA Methylation is not Affected by Parental Developmental Stress Experience in a Passerine Species

open access: yesJournal of Experimental Zoology Part A: Ecological and Integrative Physiology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Rapid phenotypic change may be mediated by intergenerational transmission of early developmental experiences. In birds, exposure to glucocorticoids during early development can alter global DNA methylation and gene expression. However, DNA methylation is labile, and it is currently unclear whether the impacts of stress suffered during juvenile
Anna Miltiadous   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

A new threat for the endangered frog Atelognathus reverberii (Anura: Batrachylidae) in Argentinean Patagonia

open access: yesPhyllomedusa: Journal of Herpetology, 2015
Mauricio Sebastián Akmentins   +3 more
doaj   +3 more sources

Higher Energy Demands and Lower Body Condition in a Hot Spring: Comparing Relict Leopard Frogs at Two Thermally Contrasting Sites

open access: yesJournal of Experimental Zoology Part A: Ecological and Integrative Physiology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Following range‐wide decline, all remnant populations of the relict leopard frog (Rana onca) in the eastern Mojave Desert of the southwestern USA occupied geothermally influenced hot springs. In recent years, however, several large populations have been established at cold‐water sites.
Robert P. Pelletier   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Rhinella fernandezae (Anura, Bufonidae) a paratenic host of Centrorhynchus sp. (Acanthocephala, Centrorhynchidae) in Brazil Rhinella fernandezae (Anura, Bufonidae), hospedero paraténico de Centrorhynchus sp. (Acanthocephala, Centrorhynchidae) en Brasil

open access: yesRevista Mexicana de Biodiversidad, 2010
Cystacanths of Centrorhynchus sp., were found in the coelomic cavity of anurans Rhinella fernandezae (Gallardo, 1957), collected in the municipality of Imbé, on the northern coast of Rio Grande do Sul in southern Brazil.
Viviane Gularte Tavares dos Santos   +1 more
doaj  

Observations on the oesophageal glands in some Tanzanian anurans [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
The occurrence and function of oesophageal glands In some anurans from Tanzania was investigated. The compound glands were present in the oesophageal submucosa of Ptychadena oxyrhynchus Smith, Ptychadena porosissima   Steindachner, Phrynobatrachus ...
Hirji, K.N., Nikundiwe, A.M.
core  

Noncanonical Nucleotides in the Genome Around the Maternal‐Zygotic Transition

open access: yesJournal of Experimental Zoology Part B: Molecular and Developmental Evolution, EarlyView.
In this paper, Kazzazi et al. provide a comprehensive review of the dynamics of nonconventional nucleotides in the genome during early developmental stages, hypothesizing a potential role for these nucleotides in the activation of the zygotic genome. ABSTRACT From the very moment of fertilization and throughout development, the cells of animal embryos ...
Latifa Kazzazy   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Priority areas for anuran conservation using biogeographical data: a comparison of greedy, rarity, and simulated annealing algorithms to define reserve networks in Cerrado

open access: yesBrazilian Journal of Biology
Spatial patterns in biodiversity variation at a regional scale are rarely taken into account when a natural reserve is to be established, despite many available methods for determining them.
J. A. F. Diniz-Filho   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Calpain Proteases and the Evolving Signaling Network in Insect Embryonic Patterning

open access: yesJournal of Experimental Zoology Part B: Molecular and Developmental Evolution, EarlyView.
Insect embryonic Dorsal‐Ventral (DV) patterning relies on the BMP and Toll pathways to different extents. Calcium‐dependent cystein proteases of the Calpain family also exert an important function to pattern the DV axis. In Drosophila, Calpain A cleaves the Cactus/IkappaB inhibitor and modifies Toll signals in ventral regions of the embryo. In Rhodnius
Alison Julio, Helena Araujo
wiley   +1 more source

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