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Adaptive features of aquatic mammals' eye [PDF]

The Anatomical Record, 2007
AbstractThe eye of aquatic mammals demonstrates several adaptations to both underwater and aerial vision. This study offers a review of eye anatomy in four groups of aquatic animals: cetaceans (toothed and baleen whales), pinnipeds (seals, sea lions, and walruses), sirenians (manatees and dugongs), and sea otters.
Alla M, Mass, Alexander Ya, Supin
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Phylogenetic analysis of conservation priorities for aquatic mammals and their terrestrial relatives, with a comparison of methods. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2011
BACKGROUND: Habitat loss and overexploitation are among the primary factors threatening populations of many mammal species. Recently, aquatic mammals have been highlighted as particularly vulnerable.
Laura J May-Collado, Ingi Agnarsson
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Molecular Detection and Characterization of Mycoplasma spp. in Marine Mammals, Brazil

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2023
Mycoplasma spp. are wall-less bacteria able to infect mammals and are classified as hemotropic (hemoplasma) and nonhemotropic. In aquatic mammals, hemoplasma have been reported in California sea lions (Zalophus californianus) and river dolphins (Inia ...
Aricia Duarte-Benvenuto, Carlos Sacristán, Ana Carolina Ewbank, Roberta Zamana-Ramblas, Henrique Christino Lial, Samira Costa Silva, Maria Alejandra Arias Lugo, Lara B. Keid, Caroline F. Pessi, José Rubens Sabbadini, Vanessa L. Ribeiro, Rodrigo del Rio do Valle, Carolina Pacheco Bertozzi, Adriana Castaldo Colosio, Hernani da Cunha Gomes Ramos, Angélica María Sánchez-Sarmiento, Raquel Beneton Ferioli, Larissa Pavanelli, Joana Midori Penalva Ikeda, Vitor L. Carvalho, Felipe Alexandre Catardo Gonçalves, Pablo Ibáñez-Porras, Irene Sacristán, José Luiz Catão-Dias   +23 more
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Ontogeny of the skull of Sotalia guianensis (Cetartiodactyla: Delphinidae) on the Northern coast of Brazil [PDF]

Iheringia: Série Zoologia, 2020
This study aimed to investigate the ontogenetic development of the skull in the Guiana dolphin (Sotalia guianensis Van Bénéden, 1864 ) through the comparison of 29 morphological non-metrical characters together with the estimated age of 54 specimens ...
Renata F. Novais, Salvatore Siciliano, Renata Emin-Lima, José S. Silva Júnior   +3 more
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Characterisation and expression of β1-, β2- and β3-adrenergic receptors in the fathead minnow (Pimephales promelas) [PDF]

, 2011
This is the author’s version of a work that was accepted for publication in General and Comparative Endocrinology. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control ...
Eccles, PD, Giltrow, E, Hutchinson, TH, Rand-Weaver, M, Sumpter, JP   +4 more
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Ethnozoological Knowledge about Aquatic Mammals in Public Schools: Proposals for an Intercultural Teaching of Science

Science Education International, 2022
This study assessed the knowledge, feelings, and life experiences of students in public middle schools in the Brazilian Amazon towards aquatic mammals by applying semi-structured interviews, with a qualitative-quantitative approach.
Angélica Lúcia Figueiredo Rodrigues , Gabriel Melo-Santos , Geilsa Costa Santos Baptista , Jairo Robles-Piñeros , Maria Luisa da Silva   +4 more
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Insights on the role of forest cover and on the changes in forest cover on thirty-five endangered mammal species distributions [PDF]

, 2019
The changes in forest cover can determine the survival of terrestrial endangered mammal species in the wild. This study assessed the impacts of forest cover changes on endangered mammal species distribution at global scale aiming to understand how the ...
Laze, Kuenda
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Anatomical adaptations of aquatic mammals [PDF]

The Anatomical Record, 2007
AbstractThis special issue of the Anatomical Record explores many of the anatomical adaptations exhibited by aquatic mammals that enable life in the water. Anatomical observations on a range of fossil and living marine and freshwater mammals are presented, including sirenians (manatees and dugongs), cetaceans (both baleen whales and toothed whales ...
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One-way trip: Influenza virus' adaptation to gallinaceous poultry may limit its pandemic potential [PDF]

, 2014
We hypothesise that some influenza virus adaptations to poultry may explain why the barrier for human-to-human transmission is not easily overcome once the virus has crossed from wild birds to chickens.
Alexander, Baigent, Banks, Banks, Belser, Blumenkrantz, Bosch, Brass, Bullough, Butt, Castrucci, Cauldwell, Chan, Chen, Chen, Cheng, Chutinimitkul, Cohen, Connor, Costa, Cotter, Cowling, Cox, De Jong, Dorigatti, DuBois, Elderfield, England, Everitt, Gabbard, Galloway, Gambaryan, Gambaryan, Gao, Garten, Handel, Harvey, Hatta, Hay, Herfst, Hoffmann, Imai, Jia, Karron, Keleta, Killingley, Koerner, Koopmans, Krenn, Kuchipudi, Li, Li, Lin, Lin, Linster, Luke, Maines, Matrosovich, Matrosovich, Matrosovich, Matrosovich, Matsuoka, Munier, Neumann, O'Donnell, Pappas, Peiris, Perdue, Reed, Roberts, Robinson, Roche, Rogers, Rott, Russell, Russell, Schrauwen, Shelton, Shi, Skehel, Smeenk, Sorrell, Sorrell, Steinhauer, Stevens, Suguitan, Sun, Tellier, Tharakaraman, Thoennes, Tumpey, Vines, Wan, Wang, Washington, Webster, Wei, Xiong, Yen, Zhang, Zhou, Zhou   +101 more
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Tracer Pathway of Malathion Insecticide and the Impact of Malathion to the Mouse’s Liver and Brain

Makara Journal of Health Research, 2010
This research was aimed to settle on the pathway of insecticide contamination in the aquatic environment forwarding toward aquatic plants and animals by using radioisotope 14C labelled malathion.
Razak Achmad Hamzah
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