Back to Water: Signature of Adaptive Evolution in Cetacean Mitochondrial tRNAs. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2016 The mitochondrion is the power plant of the eukaryotic cell, and tRNAs are the fundamental components of its translational machinery. In the present paper, the evolution of mitochondrial tRNAs was investigated in the Cetacea, a clade of Cetartiodactyla ...
Stefano Montelli +4 more
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Alterations of pleiotropic neuropeptide-receptor gene couples in Cetacea [PDF]
BMC BiologyBackground Habitat transitions have considerable consequences in organism homeostasis, as they require the adjustment of several concurrent physiological compartments to maintain stability and adapt to a changing environment.
Raul Valente +7 more
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Phylogeny and adaptive evolution of the brain-development gene microcephalin (
BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2011 Background Representatives of Cetacea have the greatest absolute brain size among animals, and the largest relative brain size aside from humans. Despite this, genes implicated in the evolution of large brain size in primates have yet to be surveyed in ...
Montgomery Stephen H +3 more
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Records of Lancashire Cetacea [PDF]
Nature, 1942 As records of Lancashire cetaceans are few, I thought it worth recording that when told of a 'big porpoise' washed up on the west Lancashire coast at Birkdale, Southport, on September 23, 1942, I identified it as a young male bottle-nosed dolphin (Tursiops truncatus Montagu) and took the following measurements: length 105 in., flippers 14 in., tail ...
Eric Hardy
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, 1982 James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman, James W. Koeppl (1982): Order Cetacea. In: James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman, James W. Koeppl (Eds): Mammal Species of the World (1st Edition). Lawrence, Kansas, USA: Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections: 290-304, ISBN: 0-89327-235-3, DOI: http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo ...
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Vertebral osteology in Delphinidae (Cetacea) [PDF]
Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2004 Vertebral anatomy in delphinid cetaceans exhibits marked heterogeneity. Description and functional interpretation of this variability is facilitated by the recognition of structural units along the column whose boundaries transgress those of the classical mammalian series. Vertebral anatomy of the killer whale (Orcinus orca) and the Atlantic whitesided
Emily A. Buchholtz, STEPHANIE A. SCHUR
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Heterochrony and Oophagy Underlie the Evolution of Giant Filter-Feeding Lamniform Sharks. [PDF]
Evol DevRetention of juvenile craniofacial characteristics by paedomorphosis (heterochrony) may have facilitated the evolution of gigantism in filter‐feeding lamniform sharks, by increasing the efficiency of prey acquisition. ABSTRACT Evolutionary transitions toward gigantic body sizes have profound consequences for the structure and dynamics of ecological ...
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Correction to: ‘Rostrum morphology and feeding strategy of the baleen whale indicate that right whales and pygmy right whales became skimmers independently’ (2022), by Tanaka [PDF]
Royal Society Open ScienceYoshihiro Tanaka
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A new diminutive fossil ziphiid from the deep-sea floor off northern Chile and some remarks on the body size evolution and palaeobiogeography of the beaked whales [PDF]
Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 2023 The evolutionary history of the beaked whales (Ziphiidae), odontocetes nowadays adapted to deep diving, is well known thanks to a significant fossil record mainly from the deep ocean floors.
Giovanni Bianucci +3 more
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PERCEPÇÃO DE ALUNOS DE GRADUAÇÃO SOBRE ECOLOGIA E CONSERVAÇÃO DE CETÁCEOS, FORTALEZA-CE
Holos, 2021 Cetáceos são mamíferos aquáticos que habitam boa parte do globo, e que tornaram-se ameaçadas devido a ações como caças ilegais, poluição e turismo. Com isso, objetivou-se avaliar a percepção de alunos de graduação sobre Ecologia e Conservação de Cetáceos.
Marcos Adelino Almeida Filho +4 more
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