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Morphometric characterization of local geese in the Valley of Kashmir

Indian Journal of Animal Sciences, 2014
An extensive study was carried out in the geese rearing areas of Kashmir Valley to record the morphometric parameters which included external body measurements and visceral measurements of local geese.
HENNA HAMADANI, A A KHAN, M S MIR, M T BANDAY, T A S GANAI, A HAMADANI   +5 more
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Implicit body representations and the conscious body image [PDF]

, 2012
Recent studies have revealed that somatosensory processing relies on a class of implicit body representations showing large distortions of size and shape.
Longo, Matthew R., Longo, MR, Haggard, P, Haggard, P.   +3 more
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Evolutionary rates of body-size-related genes and ecological factors involved in driving body size evolution of squamates

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2022
Body size is one of the most important traits of an organism. Among reptiles, both lizards and snakes show body size differences that span a similar six orders of magnitude variation.
Haixia Wu, Shuo Gao, Longjie Xia, Peng Li   +3 more
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Effect of temperature and glia in brain size enlargement and origin of allometric body-brain size scaling in vertebrates [PDF]

, 2014
Background: Brain signaling requires energy. The cost of maintaining and supporting energetically demanding neurons is the key constraint on brain size.
Feng, Jianfeng, Jianfeng Feng, Sachdev, Robert, Karbowski, Jan, Yu, Yuguo, Jan Karbowski, Yuguo Yu, Robert NS Sachdev   +7 more
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Body size determines eyespot size and presence in coral reef fishes

Ecology and Evolution, 2020
Numerous organisms display conspicuous eyespots. These eye‐like patterns have been shown to effectively reduce predation by either deflecting strikes away from nonvital organs or by intimidating potential predators.
Christopher R. Hemingson, Peter F. Cowman, David R. Bellwood   +2 more
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Role of zooplanktonic functional groups in a shallow mesotrophic reservoir

Acta Limnologica Brasiliensia, 2023
: Aim Zooplankton functional groups play an important role in lake functioning and can readily respond to environmental changes and may be associated with phytoplankton changes.
Maria Carolina de Almeida Castilho, Thiago Rodrigues dos Santos, Carla Ferragut, Raoul Henry   +3 more
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Global biogeography and ecology of body size in birds [PDF]

, 2009
In 1847, Karl Bergmann proposed that temperature gradients are the key to understanding geographic variation in the body sizes of warm-blooded animals.
Olson, VA, Blackburn, TM, Davies, Richard G., Olson, Valerie A., Blackburn, Tim M., Meiri, S, Bennett, PM, Gaston, Kevin J., Thomas, GH, Orme, C. David L., Davies, RG, Thomas, Gavin H., Meiri, Shai, Davies, Ricahrd G., Orme, CDL, Owens, Ian P. F., Bennett, Peter M., Gaston, KJ, Owens, IPF   +18 more
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Body Size Mediated Coexistence in Swans

The Scientific World Journal, 2014
Differences in body sizes may create a trade-off between foraging efficiency (foraging gains/costs) and access to resources. Such a trade-off provides a potential mechanism for ecologically similar species to coexist on one resource.
Katharina A. M. Engelhardt, Mark E. Ritchie, James A. Powell   +2 more
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Fixation patterns, not clinical diagnosis, predict body size over-estimation in eating disordered women and healthy controls

, 2016
Objective - A core feature of anorexia nervosa (AN) is an over-estimation of body size. Women with AN have a different pattern of eye-movements when judging bodies, but it is unclear whether this is specific to their diagnosis or whether it is found in ...
Cornelissen, Piers, Cornelissen, Piers L, Hancock, Peter J B, Hancock, Peter, Cornelissen, Katri, Tovée, Martin, Piers L. Cornelissen, Cornelissen, Katri K, Tovee, Martin J, Peter J. B. Hancock, Katri K. Cornelissen, Martin J. Tovée   +11 more
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Welcome to Wonderland : the influence of the size and shape of a virtual hand on the perceived size and shape of virtual objects [PDF]

, 2013
The notion of body-based scaling suggests that our body and its action capabilities are used to scale the spatial layout of the environment. Here we present four studies supporting this perspective by showing that the hand acts as a metric which ...
Linkenauger Sally A., Mohler, B., Linkenauger, Sally A., Leyrer, M., Markus Leyrer, Bülthoff Heinrich H., Betty J Mohler, Sally A Linkenauger, Leyrer, Markus, Betty J. Mohler, Leyrer Markus, Heinrich H Bülthoff, Sally A. Linkenauger, Linkenauger, S., Mohler, Betty J., Heinrich H. Bülthoff, Mohler Betty J., Bülthoff, H., Bülthoff, Heinrich H.   +18 more
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