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Harnessing Population Genomics, Gut Microbiota, and Environmental DNA Surveillance for the Conservation of Chinese Spotted Seals in a Changing World. [PDF]

Ecol Evol
Marine mammals are sentinel species for ocean and human health. Multiple anthropogenic and environmental stressors threaten these organisms, particularly China's spotted seals, which have experienced significant decline over the past half‐century. Our review reveals low genetic diversity in Chinese spotted seal populations.
Li S, Li W, Zhang X, Zhou H, Zhan J.
europepmc   +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
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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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Reductions in the dietary niche of southern sea otters (Enhydra lutris nereis) from the Holocene to the Anthropocene. [PDF]

, 2020
The sea otter (Enhydra lutris) is a marine mammal hunted to near extinction during the 1800s. Despite their well-known modern importance as a keystone species, we know little about historical sea otter ecology.
Elliott Smith, Emma A, Gifford-Gonzalez, Diane, Hylkema, Mark G, Kennett, Douglas J, Newsome, Seth D, Tinker, Martin Tim, Vellanoweth, René L, Whistler, Emily L   +7 more
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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

Ecomorphology of Carnivora challenges convergent evolution [PDF]

, 2015
Convergent evolution is often reported in the mammalian order Carnivora. Their adaptations to particularly demanding feeding habits such as hypercarnivory and durophagy (consumption of tough food) appear to favour morphological similarities between ...
A Goswami, A Goswami, AR Friscia, B Figueirido, B Figueirido, B Figueirido, B Valkenburgh Van, B Valkenburgh Van, B Valkenburgh Van, B Valkenburgh Van, B Valkenburgh Van, C Arnold, C Carbone, C Carbone, C Meloro, C Meloro, C Meloro, C Meloro, C Meloro, C Meloro, C Meloro, Carlo Meloro, CT Stayton, CV Bennett, DC Adams, DC Adams, DC Adams, DC Adams, DC Adams, DC Adams, DJ Futuyma, EC Lofroth, F Wei, FJ Prevosti, FJ Rohlf, GB Schaller, GJ Slater, H Kruuk, JA Holliday, JT Davies, KG Johnson, L Werdelin, LJ Harmon, M Clauss, Marcus Clauss, P O'Higgins, P Raia, P Raia, Pasquale Raia, RF Ewer, S Echarri, S Meiri, SP Blomberg   +52 more
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Genetic Predictions of Prion Disease Susceptibility in Carnivore Species Based on Variability of the Prion Gene Coding Region [PDF]

, 2012
Mammalian species vary widely in their apparent susceptibility to prion diseases. For example, several felid species developed prion disease (feline spongiform encephalopathy or FSE) during the bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) epidemic in the ...
A Bencsik, A Brun, A Maj, A Mange, AH Nalls, AN Hamir, AN Hamir, B Bratberg, B Caughey, B Iulini, B Sweeting, C B-Rao, C Plinston, CE Krumm, CJ Sigurdson, CS Jennelle, DA Lysek, DA Lysek, DM Heisey, E Flechsig, F Wopfner, GR Pearson, H Bueler, HM Schatzl, I Laffont-Proust, I Vorberg, J Slate, J Wan, JC Bartz, JC Manson, Jon M. Arnemo, K Kaneko, Karen A. Griffin, L Westergard, L Wik, Lauren Campbell, M Eiden, M Polymenidou, MA Menotti-Raymond, Mark D. Zabel, ME Chase-Topping, Michael A. Tranulis, Michael W. Miller, MM Hilbe, MM Leggett, Morten Tryland, MW Miller, Paula Stewart, PJ Robinson, PP Liberski, RD Harrington, RM Anderson, RM Barron, S Lezmi, S Mead, S Peletto, S Young, Simon Girling, SJ O’Brien, Susan Skogtvedt, T Baron, TD Kurt, W Goldmann, W Goldmann, Wilfred Goldmann   +64 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
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Rapid changes in Atlantic grey seal milk from birth to weaning – immune factors and indicators of metabolic strain [PDF]

, 2017
True seals have the shortest lactation periods of any group of placental mammal. Most are capital breeders that undergo short, intense lactations, during which they fast while transferring substantial proportions of their body reserves to their pups ...
Bawazeer, Sami, Burchmore, Richard J.S., Kennedy, Malcolm W., Lowe, Amanda D., McGill, Suzanne, Pomeroy, Patrick, Watson, David G.   +6 more
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