Comparative characteristics of metatarsal bones (Ossa metatarsi) and finger articles (Ossa digitorum pedis seu phalanges digitorum) of roe deer (Capreolus capreolus) and sheep (Ovis aries) in orderto determine animal species [PDF]
Metatarsal bones and finger articles of roe deer and sheep are rarely used for animal identification. In practice there are frequent cases where on a corpse the head and distal parts of the limbs are missing.
Blagojević Miloš +3 more
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Comparative Perspectives on the Rise of the Brazilian Novel [PDF]
Comparative Perspectives on the Rise of the Brazilian Novel presents a framework of comparative literature based on a systemic and empirical approach to the study of the novel and applies that framework to the analysis of key nineteenth-century Brazilian
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Comparative characteristics of metacarpal bones (Ossa metacarpi) and finger articles (Ossa digitorum pedis seu phalanges digitorum) of roe deer (Capreolus capreolus) and sheep (Ovis aries) in order to determine animal species [PDF]
The method of determining which animal species the bones, on the basis of morphological characteristics, belong to, is one of the most commonly used in forensic cases (poaching, fraud, theft, counterfeiting of food of animal origin).For ...
Blagojević Miloš +4 more
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Comparative Postembryonic Skeletal Ontogeny in Two Sister Lineages of Old World Tree Frogs (Rhacophoridae: Taruga, Polypedates). [PDF]
Rhacophoridae, a family of morphologically cryptic frogs, with many genetically distinct evolutionary lineages, is understudied with respect to skeletal morphology, life history traits and skeletal ontogeny.
Gayani Senevirathne +2 more
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Comparative Morphology and Mechanics of Aquatic and Terrestrial Feeding Salamanders. [PDF]
Jaw muscle size, bite force, and skull strength are driven by multiple factors, not just the difference between the two habitats. Necturus produces higher bite forces than Salamandra, but the stress distribution is less even in Necturus, suggesting Salamandra's skull shape is better adapated to resist feeding loads.
May JRS, Porro LB, Rayfield EJ.
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Trichomycterus has been considered for a long time to be the most problematic genus of the diverse neotropical subfamily Trichomycterinae. Recently, Trichomycterus was restricted to a clade from eastern South America supported by molecular data, but no ...
Wilson J. E. M. Costa
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Comparative skull osteology of the lacertid lizards Eremias persica and Mesalina watsonana (Sauria: Lacertidae) [PDF]
The skull of two lacertid lizards of Iran including Eremias persica from Isfahan Province, Central Iranian Plateau and Mesalina watsonana from Birjand in Southern Khorasan Province, Eastern Iran, was described and compared based on seven dry skull ...
A Khosravani +2 more
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The population of the medieval Plyos (based on archaeological excavations of the Varvara necropolis in Plyos, modern Ivanovo Region) [PDF]
Traditionally, the emergence of the Russian medieval town of Plyos is attributed to the second half of the 12th c., when a fortress was built on the Sobornaya Mountain (upper part), and a settlement emerged in the lower area on the left bank of the River
Vasilyev S.V. +3 more
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Comparative cranial osteology of subadult eucentrosauran ceratopsid dinosaurs from the Two Medicine Formation, Montana, indicates sequence of ornamentation development and complex supraorbital ontogenetic change [PDF]
The eucentrosauran centrosaurines Einiosaurus procurvicornis and Achelousaurus horneri are the two most commonly recovered ceratopsids from the Campanian Two Medicine Formation of northwestern Montana, USA.
JOHN P. WILSON, JOHN B. SCANNELLA
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COMPARATIVE OSTEOLOGY AND PHYLOGENETIC RELATIONSHIPS OF THE DRAGONETS (PISCES : CALLIONYMIDAE) WITH SOME THOUGHTS OF THEIR EVOLUTIONARY HISTORY [PDF]
Phylogenetic relationships among the callionymid genera are discussed by comparative osteology. The thirty-one osteological characters of eleven parts of the body are used.
Nakabo, Tetsuji, Tetsuji Nakabo
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