Factors Affecting Roadkills of Semi-Aquatic Mammals [PDF]
Biology, 2022 We previously showed that registration efforts and traffic intensity explain 90% of variation in mammal roadkill numbers, 70% of variation in the numbers of recorded species and 40% of diversity variation.
Linas Balčiauskas +3 more
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Morbillivirus-host interaction: Lessons from aquatic mammals [PDF]
Frontiers in Microbiology, 2012 In the last 25 years, no less than 10 dramatic morbilliviral epidemics have occurred among free-ranging pinniped and cetacean species and populations worldwide. The origin(s) of the new Morbillivirus genus members causing these mass mortality events, along with the reason(s) behind their “sudden” appearance among wild aquatic mammals, are totally ...
Giovanni eDi Guardo
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Human
BMC Microbiology, 2013 Background In humans, Streptococcus agalactiae or group B streptococcus (GBS) is a frequent coloniser of the rectovaginal tract, a major cause of neonatal infectious disease and an emerging cause of disease in non-pregnant adults.
Delannoy Christian MJ +7 more
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Microstructural differences in the osteochondral unit of terrestrial and aquatic mammals [PDF]
eLife, 2023 During evolution, animals have returned from land to water, adapting with morphological modifications to life in an aquatic environment. We compared the osteochondral units of the humeral head of marine and terrestrial mammals across species spanning a ...
Irina AD Mancini +9 more
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Evolutionary analysis of genes associated with the sense of balance in semi-aquatic mammals [PDF]
BMC Ecology and EvolutionBackground Semi-aquatic mammals represent a transitional phase in the evolutionary spectrum between terrestrial and aquatic mammals. The sense of balance is crucial for mammalian locomotion, and in semi-aquatic mammals, the structural foundation of this ...
Yuehuan Dong +10 more
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Phylogenetic allometric scaling of near basal breathing frequency in terrestrial, semi‐aquatic and aquatic mammals [PDF]
Experimental PhysiologyWe measured the BASAL breathing frequency following an overnight fast in adult, non‐pregnant/non‐lactating, inactive mammals ranging in body mass from 15 to 5520 kg.
Andreas Fahlman +10 more
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Hemotropic Mycoplasma spp. in Aquatic Mammals, Amazon Basin, Brazil [PDF]
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2022 Hemotropic Mycoplasma spp. (hemoplasmas) are uncultivable bacteria that infect mammals, including humans. We detected a potentially novel hemoplasma species in blood samples from wild river dolphins in the Amazon River Basin, Brazil.
Aricia Duarte-Benvenuto +11 more
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Adaptive strategies of aquatic mammals: Exploring the role of the HIF pathway and hypoxia tolerance [PDF]
Genetics and Molecular BiologyAquatic mammals (marine and freshwater species) share significant and similar adaptations, enabling them to tolerate hypoxia during regular breath-hold diving.
Yuri Yépez +2 more
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Diet-microbiome coevolution: the core mechanism for semi-aquatic adaptation and cross-habitat niche coexistence of the web-footed shrew (Nectogale elegans) [PDF]
Frontiers in MicrobiologyThe adaptation of mammals to semi-aquatic niches represents a pivotal ecological transition, in which the coevolution of dietary specialization and gut microbiome is regarded as playing a fundamental role.
Jiayi Jiang +8 more
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Terrestrial and aquatic mammals of the Pantanal [PDF]
Brazilian Journal of Biology, 2011 Different works have registered the number of mammal species within the natural habitats of the Pantanal based on currently known records, with species richness ranging from 89 to 152 of annotated occurrences. Our present list sums 174 species.
CJR. Alho, G. Camargo, E. Fischer
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