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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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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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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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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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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Heliyon, 2023 The brain is a complex organ demonstrated by the occurrence of specific types of functional lipids. Despite some studies focusing on providing the animal brain lipid signature, there are limited studies focusing on the comprehensive and regiospecific ...
Siddabasave Gowda B. Gowda +6 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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Vomeronasal Receptors Associated with Circulating Estrogen Processing Chemosensory Cues in Semi-Aquatic Mammals [PDF]
International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2023 Haolin Zhang, Qiang Weng, Liu Yuning
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Social relationships and death-related behaviour in aquatic mammals: a systematic review [PDF]
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2018 Melissa A L V Reggente +2 more
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