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The razor clam (Sinonovacula constricta, Class Bivalvia) is a kind of burial filter-feeding shellfish. Salinity fluctuation is an important source of pressure for water habitats.
Xinxin DU +5 more
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The crab Neohelice (=Chasmagnathus) granulata: An emergent animal model from emergent countries [PDF]
Neohelice granulata (previously known as Chasmagnathus granulata and C. granulatus) is a burrowing semiterrestrial crab found in the intertidal zone of estuaries, salt marshes and mangroves of the South-western Atlantic Ocean. Beginning in the late 1989s,
Spivak, Eduardo Daniel
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FEEDING ECOLOGY OF TREE-CLIMBING MANGROVE SESARMID CRABS FROM LUZON, PHILIPPINES
Despite the large ecological study of tree-climbing mangrove sesarmid crabs in other countries, the Philippine representatives appear to have not been investigated extensively.
JIMMY TEVAR MASAGCA
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Crab contributions as an ecosystem engineer to sediment turnover in the Yellow River Delta
Burrowing crabs are widely distributed and have large populations in estuarine wetlands. Crab excavation can have potentially significant bioturbation effects on the vertical structure of sediments, and the processes of nutrients deposition and ...
Tian Xie +5 more
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Fossorial habits occur in many animal lineages and usually involve both morphological and physiological adaptations that may evolve independently. Burrowing behavior in some species of the anuran subfamily Leptodactylinae involves the specialized use of ...
M. L. Ponssa, R. G. Medina
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Risk-taking behavior by a cavity-nesting parrot breeding at northern Patagonia, Argentina
The increase in human population poses great challenges to birds inhabiting coastal areas, and studying their behavioral responses against these disturbances is an effective approach to understanding how tolerant species are.
Ludmila L. D. Amione +2 more
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Current state of knowledge on Virilastacus species (Crustacea, Decapoda, Parastacidae)
The genus Virilastacus was created in 1991 to accommodate Parastacus araucanius Faxon, 1914. At present, Virilastacus comprises four burrowing species, three of which were described at the beginning of the XXI century, and biological knowledge about ...
Erich H Rudolph
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The long-lived Chilean rodent (Octodon degus) has been reported to show spontaneous age-dependent neuropathology and cognitive impairments similar to those observed in human AD.
Zhiqun Tan +7 more
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Enhanced c-Fos expression in the central amygdala correlates with increased thigmotaxis in rats with peripheral nerve injury [PDF]
Pain is associated with affective, cognitive and sensory dysfunction. Animal models can be used to observe ethologically relevant behaviours such as thigmotaxis, giving insight into how ongoing sensory abnormalities influence natural rodent behaviours ...
Rice, ASC
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Inventory of the Decapod Crustaceans (Crayfishes and Shrimps) of Arkansas with a Discussion of Their Habitats [PDF]
The freshwater decapod crustaceans of Arkansas presently consist of two species of shrimps and 51 taxa of crayfishes divided into 47 species and four subspecies. The shrimps are represented by Macrobranchium ohione and Palaemonetes kadiakensis.
Bouchard, Raymond W., Robison, Henry W.
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