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Toward a Species Search Engine: KISSE Offers a Rigorous Statistical Framework for Bone Collagen Tandem Mass Spectrometry Data. [PDF]

Adv Sci (Weinh)
The Species Search Engine (KISSE) is a novel statistical approach for identifying species from collagen peptides, using a curated library of sequences and their relative abundances derived from shotgun proteomics. Abstract DNA and bone collagen are two key sources of resilient molecular markers used to identify species from their remains.
Gharibi H, Saei AA, Chernobrovkin AL, Lundstrom SL, Lyu H, Meng Z, Vegvari A, Gaetani M, Zubarev RA.   +8 more
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Commentary: The missing sabertooth baculum-At what point might the absence of evidence reasonably be considered evidence of absence? [PDF]

Anat Rec (Hoboken)
Abstract Most carnivorans and all modern felids have ossified bacula; however, no machairodont baculum has ever been identified. This is true despite the many fairly complete skeletons found around the world of several sabertooth taxa. Although the bacula of modern felids are much smaller than those of canoids (even the least weasel's baculum is longer
Hartstone-Rose A.
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Quantifying variability in stable carbon and nitrogen isotope ratios within the skeletons of marine mammals of the suborder Caniformia

Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 2017
Abstract Stable isotope ratios of bone collagen are commonly used to investigate foraging and movement of human and animal populations. This technique is especially valuable for archaeological and paleoecological applications, as bones are among the few tissues that are commonly preserved in archaeological and assemblages.
Casey T Clark, Lara Horstmann, Nicole Misarti   +2 more
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Macroecological Evidence for Competitive Regional-Scale Interactions between the Two Major Clades of Mammal Carnivores (Feliformia and Caniformia)

PLoS ONE, 2014
Geographical gradients in species diversity are often explained by environmental factors such as climate and productivity. Biotic interactions play a key role in evolutionary diversification and may therefore also affect diversity patterns, but this has rarely been assessed.
Rasmus Ø Pedersen, Brody Sandel, Jens-Christian Svenning   +2 more
exaly   +5 more sources

Muscular Anatomy of the Forelimbs of the Lesser Grison (Galictis cuja), and a Functional and Phylogenetic Overview of Mustelidae and Other Caniformia

Journal of Mammalian Evolution, 2014
The extrinsic and intrinsic forelimb musculature of the lesser grison (Galictis cuja), a short-legged mustelid of southern South America, is studied for the first time. We present descriptions, muscular maps, and weight data. Muscular anatomy description of the lesser grison provides the framework for discussing the myological diversity of mustelids ...
Marcos D Ercoli, Miriam M Morales, Ercoli Marcos D   +2 more
exaly   +3 more sources

Mutation pressure mediates a pattern of substitution rates with latitude and climate in carnivores. [PDF]

Ecol Evol
This study revealed a robust correlation between substitution rates and latitudinal gradients, rather than adaptation‐related parameters. And the results suggest that nonadaptive forces (mutation pressure) have a more widespread impact on mitochondrial genes compared to adaptive forces. Abstract The evolutionary patterns of the mitochondrial genome are
Zhao C, Liu G, Yang X, Wang X, Zhou S, Liu Z, Liu K, Zhang H.   +7 more
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Can-SINE dynamics in the giant panda and three other Caniformia genomes [PDF]

Mobile DNA, 2018
Although repeat sequences constitute about 37% of carnivore genomes, the characteristics and distribution of repeat sequences among carnivore genomes have not been fully investigated. Based on the updated Repbase library, we re-annotated transposable elements (TEs) in four Caniformia genomes (giant panda, polar bear, domestic dog, and domestic ferret ...
Changjun Peng, Lili Niu, Jiabo Deng, Jianqiu Yu, Xueyan Zhang, Chuang Zhou, Jinchuan Xing, Jing Li   +7 more
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Morphology and Histology of the Orbital Region and Eye of the Asiatic Black Bear (Ursus thibetanus)—Similarities and Differences within the Caniformia Suborder

Animals, 2022
In this study, we present first data concerning the morphological observations of the orbital region, eye tunics, upper and lower eyelids, superficial gland of the third eyelid with the third eyelid, and lacrimal gland in captive adult male Asiatic black bear.
Wojciech Paszta, Karolina Goździewska-Harłajczuk, Joanna Klećkowska-Nawrot   +2 more
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Molecular identification of badger-associated Babesia sp. DNA in dogs: updated phylogeny of piroplasms infecting Caniformia [PDF]

Parasites & Vectors, 2018
Piroplasms are unicellular, tick-borne parasites. Among them, during the past decade, an increasing diversity of Babesia spp. has been reported from wild carnivores. On the other hand, despite the known contact of domestic and wild carnivores (e.g.
Sándor Hornok, Gábor Horváth, Nóra Takács, Jenő Kontschán, Krisztina Szőke, Róbert Farkas   +5 more
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CANIFORMIA Kretzoi 1938

, 2005
CANIFORMIA Kretzoi 1938 Families: 9 families with 72 genera and 165 species: Family Canidae Fischer 1817 (13 genera with 35 species and 199 subspecies) Family Ursidae Fischer de Waldheim 1817 (5 genera with 8 species and 43 subspecies) Family Otariidae Gray 1825 (7 genera with 16 species and 2 subspecies) Family Odobenidae Allen 1880 (1 genus with 1 ...
Wilson, Don E., Reeder, DeeAnn
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