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Tree Species Diversity and Forest Edge Density Jointly Shape the Gut Microbiota Composition in Juvenile Great Tits (Parus major)

Frontiers in Microbiology, 2022
Despite the microbiome’s key role in health and fitness, little is known about the environmental factors shaping the gut microbiome of wild birds. With habitat fragmentation being recognised as a major threat to biological diversity, we here determined ...
Evy Goossens, Roschong Boonyarittichaikij, Roschong Boonyarittichaikij, Daan Dekeukeleire, Lionel Hertzog, Sarah Van Praet, Frank Pasmans, Dries Bonte, Kris Verheyen, Luc Lens, An Martel, Elin Verbrugghe   +11 more
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Skeletal pathologies in extant crocodilians as a window into the paleopathology of fossil archosaurs

The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Abstract Crocodilians, together with birds, are the only extant relatives to many extinct archosaur groups, making them highly important for interpreting paleopathological conditions in a phylogenetic disease bracketing model. Despite this, comprehensive data on osteopathologies in crocodilians remain scarce.
Alexis Cornille, Kyla Beguesse, Ewan Wolff, Clemens Zinner, Patrick Asbach, François Clarac, Florian Witzmann   +6 more
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Detection of Staphylococcal Enterotoxins A and E and Methicillin Resistance in Staphylococcus aureus Strains From Moroccan Broiler Chicken Meat

International Journal of Food Science
Foodborne epidemics have become a serious public health emergency worldwide. Foods of animal origin, in particular chicken meat, are considered to be potential vectors of pathogenic bacteria, particularly Staphylococcus aureus.
Sabrine Nacer, Saâdia Nassik, Fatima Zahra El Ftouhy, Sophia Derqaoui, Mohamed Mouahid, Mustapha Lkhider   +5 more
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Growth Regulation in Amphibian Pathogenic Chytrid Fungi by the Quorum Sensing Metabolite Tryptophol

Frontiers in Microbiology, 2019
Amphibians face many threats leading to declines and extinctions, but the chytrid fungal skin pathogens Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd) and Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans (Bsal) have been identified as the causative factors leading to one of the ...
Elin Verbrugghe, Connie Adriaensen, An Martel, Lynn Vanhaecke, Frank Pasmans   +4 more
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New craniodental materials of Falcarius utahensis (Theropoda: Therizinosauria) reveal patterns of intraspecific variation and cranial evolution in early coelurosaurians

The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Abstract Despite documented ecomorphological shifts toward an herbivorous diet in several coelurosaurian lineages, the evolutionary tempo and mode of these changes remain poorly understood, hampered by sparse cranial materials for early representatives of major clades. This is particularly true for Therizinosauria, with representative crania best known
William J. Freimuth, Lindsay E. Zanno
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Protein Truncating Variants of colA in Clostridium perfringens Type G Strains

Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology, 2021
Extracellular matrix (ECM) degrading enzymes produced by Clostridium perfringens may play an important role during the initial phases of avian necrotic enteritis by facilitating toxin entry in the intestinal mucosa and destruction of the tissue.
Lore Van Damme, Natasja Cox, Chana Callens, Michelle Dargatz, Monika Flügel, Sarah Hark, Frank Thiemann, Stefan Pelzer, Freddy Haesebrouck, Richard Ducatelle, Filip Van Immerseel, Evy Goossens   +11 more
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Re‐evaluation of a soft crested Edmontosaurin, with implications for hadrosaurid life appearance and diversity

The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Abstract Hadrosaurid dinosaurs are generally regarded as “crested” or “non‐crested” depending on the presence or absence of a bony cranial crest. At least one supposedly “non‐crested” hadrosaur is known to have possessed a soft tissue cranial crest (or comb), based on an exceptionally preserved “mummified” specimen. Here we redescribe this specimen and
Henry S. Sharpe, Phil R. Bell, Ian Baylatry, Robin Sissons, Corwin Sullivan   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Forty-nine years of Avian Pathology, and counting …

Avian Pathology, 2021
As we enter the year 2021 our journal, Avian Pathology, approaches an important landmark. Starting the 50th volume here, we are now planning towards our 50th anniversary year in 2022.
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An osteohistological analysis of Triceratops (Ornithischia: Ceratopsidae) cranial ornamentation

The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Abstract Ceratopsids are among the most distinctive and well known extinct Cretaceous vertebrates, yet many details regarding the growth and composition of their cranial features are still not fully anatomically described or understood. In particular, striking cranial adornments such as the postorbital horns and parietal‐squamosal frill of Triceratops ...
Kyle D. Obuszewski, N. Adam Smith, Guinevere Rose Brown   +2 more
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Characterization of the non-glandular gastric region microbiota in Helicobacter suis-infected versus non-infected pigs identifies a potential role for Fusobacterium gastrosuis in gastric ulceration

Veterinary Research, 2019
Helicobacter suis has been associated with development of gastric ulcers in the non-glandular part of the porcine stomach, possibly by affecting gastric acid secretion and altering the gastric microbiota.
Chloë De Witte, Kristel Demeyere, Sofie De Bruyckere, Bernard Taminiau, Georges Daube, Richard Ducatelle, Evelyne Meyer, Freddy Haesebrouck   +7 more
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