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Ganglion-specific splicing of TRPV1 underlies infrared sensation in vampire bats. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Vampire bats (Desmodus rotundus) are obligate blood feeders that have evolved specialized systems to suit their sanguinary lifestyle. Chief among such adaptations is the ability to detect infrared radiation as a means of locating hotspots on warm-blooded
Aranguren, Carla I   +7 more
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Analysis of substitution rates showed that TLR5 is evolving at different rates among mammalian groups

open access: yesBMC Evolutionary Biology, 2019
Background Toll-like receptors (TLRs) are the most widely studied innate immunity receptors responsible for recognition of invading pathogens. Among the TLR family, TLR5 is the only that senses and recognizes flagellin, the major protein of bacterial ...
Ana Pinheiro   +5 more
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Carnivora Bowdich 1821

open access: yes, 1982
ORDER CARNIVORA COMMENT: Includes Pinnipedia (Otariidae, Odobenidae, Phocidae); see Tedford, 1977; but also see Hall, 1981, and Corbet and Hill, 1980. ISIS NUMBER: 5301412000000000000.
Honacki, James H.   +2 more
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Diet composition of red fox during rearing in a moor: a case study [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
The diet of red fox (Vulpes vulpes) cubs living in a moor in Hungary was studied by scat analysis (n = 77) during the rearing period. The main food source of foxes consisted of small mammals (preferred Microtus voles) which was supplemented with brown ...
Lanszki, József
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Order Carnivora

open access: yes, 1993
W. Christopher Wozencraft (1993): Order Carnivora. In: Don E. Wilson, DeeAnn M. Reeder (Eds): Mammal Species of the World (2nd Edition). Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press: 279-348, ISBN: 1-56098-217-9, DOI: http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo ...
openaire   +1 more source

The Energy Cost of the Excretion of Urine [PDF]

open access: yes, 1931
The energy consumption of the kidney has been estimated by a number of experimenters and by different methods; and the values obtained are all of the same order of magnitude.
Borsook, Henry, Winegarden, Howard M.
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New Viverrinae (Carnivora: Mammalia) from the basal Middle Miocene of Arrisdrift, Namibia [PDF]

open access: yes, 2001
A new genus and species of viverrid of modern type, Orangic!is gariepensis, is described from the basal Middle Miocene locality of Arrisdrift in southern Namibia. It is the earliest known representative of the subfamily Viverrinae from Africa.
Fraile, Susan   +3 more
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Systematics and paleobiology of Carnivora and Hyaenodonta from the lower Miocene of Buluk, Kenya [PDF]

open access: yesActa Palaeontologica Polonica, 2021
MICHAEL MORLO   +4 more
doaj  

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