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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
europepmc   +2 more sources

Adaptations to cursoriality and digit reduction in the forelimb of the African wild dog (Lycaon pictus) [PDF]

PeerJ, 2020
Background The African wild dog (Lycaon pictus), an endangered canid native to southern and eastern Africa, is distinct among canids in being described as entirely tetradactyl and in its nomadic lifestyle and use of exhaustive predation to capture its ...
Heather F. Smith, Brent Adrian, Rahul Koshy, Ryan Alwiel, Aryeh Grossman   +4 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Whence the beardogs? Reappraisal of the Middle to Late Eocene ‘Miacis’ from Texas, USA, and the origin of Amphicyonidae (Mammalia, Carnivora) [PDF]

Royal Society Open Science, 2016
The Middle to Late Eocene sediments of Texas have yielded a wealth of fossil material that offers a rare window on a diverse and highly endemic mammalian fauna from that time in the southern part of North America.
Susumu Tomiya, Zhijie Jack Tseng
doaj   +1 more source

Origin and Distribution of the Brachial Plexus in Two Procyonids (Procyon cancrivorus and Nasua nasua, Carnivora)

Animals, 2023
Procyon cancrivorus and Nasua nasua are two procyonids with different evolutionary adaptations to use their thoracic limbs. Therefore, this study aimed to characterize the differences in the brachial plexus between both species. Five P.
Juan Fernando Vélez García, Roseãmely Angélica de Carvalho Barros, Maria Angélica Miglino   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Early Pleistocene Caniformia from Palan-Tyukan (Azerbaijan)

Proceedings of the Zoological Institute RAS, 2022
The Early Pleistocene site of Palan-Tyukan (MNQ18, ca 1.85 Mya) is located in Transcaucasia, northwestern Azerbaijan. In total, more than 300 mammalian bones were collected there by M.V. Sablin in 1986 and 1990. The remains were laid close to each other in a 25 m2 lens-like accumulation, in a stratum of normally magnetized (the upper part of the ...
M.V. Sablin, K.Yu. Iltsevich
openaire   +1 more source

A feline model of human low‐density lipoprotein receptor‐related atherosclerosis [PDF]

Anim Genet
Abstract Atherosclerosis, a chronic inflammatory vascular disease driven by the accumulation of low‐density lipoprotein‐derived cholesterol on arterial walls, is the leading cause of mortality in humans worldwide but is rare in animals.
Hytönen M, Karkamo V, Hundi S, Airas N, Kaukonen M, Sukura A, Lyons L, Anderson H, Kareinen I, Lohi H.   +9 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

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.
europepmc   +2 more sources

Phylogenetic Utility of Nuclear Introns in Interfamilial Relationships of Caniformia (Order Carnivora) [PDF]

Systematic Biology, 2011
The monophyletic group Caniformia (dog-like carnivores) in the order Carnivora comprises 9 families. Except for the general consensus for the earliest divergence of Canidae and the grouping of Procyonidae and Mustelidae, conflicting phylogenetic hypotheses exist for the other caniformian families.
Li, Yu, Peng-Tao, Luan, Wei, Jin, Oliver A, Ryder, Leona G, Chemnick, Heidi A, Davis, Ya-Ping, Zhang   +6 more
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Evolutionary history of Carnivora (Mammalia, Laurasiatheria) inferred from mitochondrial genomes.

PLoS ONE, 2021
The order Carnivora, which currently includes 296 species classified into 16 families, is distributed across all continents. The phylogeny and the timing of diversification of members of the order are still a matter of debate.
Alexandre Hassanin, Géraldine Veron, Anne Ropiquet, Bettine Jansen van Vuuren, Alexis Lécu, Steven M Goodman, Jibran Haider, Trung Thanh Nguyen   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Rookery through rehabilitation: Microbial community assembly in newborn harbour seals after maternal separation

Environmental Microbiology, Volume 25, Issue 11, Page 2182-2202, November 2023., 2023
Abstract Microbial community assembly remains largely unexplored in marine mammals, despite its potential importance for conservation and management. Here, neonatal microbiota assembly was studied in harbour seals (Phoca vitulina richardii) at a rehabilitation facility soon after maternal separation, through weaning, to the time of release back to ...
Alexandra D. Switzer, Benjamin J. Callahan, Elizabeth K. Costello, Elisabeth M. Bik, Christine Fontaine, Frances M. D. Gulland, David A. Relman   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source