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Historical Spatial Distribution of Zoonotic Diseases in Domestic, Synanthropic, and Wild Animals in the Mexican Territory of the Yucatan Peninsula. [PDF]

J Trop Med, 2021
The Mexican territory of the Yucatan Peninsula has a tropical climate and harbors a wide variety of domestic, synanthropic, and wild animals, as well as disease vectors. To determine the distribution of recorded zoonotic diseases in the Yucatan Peninsula, scientific publications referring to these diseases in animals and containing geographic ...
Haro P, Trasviña-Muñoz E, May-Concha I, López-Valencia G, Monge-Navarro F, Herrera-Ramírez C, Mercado-Rodríguez JA, Villanueva-Alonzo H, Waleckx E.   +8 more
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Collared Peccary Wallows are Hubs of Animal Activity and Diversity in a Central American Wet Forest. [PDF]

Ecol Evol
Collared peccary wallows are used by a diverse assemblage of vertebrates in a Central American tropical wet forest. Wallows had significantly higher vertebrate activity and diversity compared to surrounding forest. Wallow visitors included 13 amphibian, 2 reptile, 11 bird, and 16 mammal species, engaged in behaviors including reproduction, drinking ...
Eckhoff A, Medina-Charriez A, Zerger M, Romero A, Hackney D, Aide TM, Reider K.   +6 more
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Trait-based climate vulnerability of native rodents in southwestern Mexico. [PDF]

Ecol Evol, 2020
We used a trait‐based approach together with climate exposure models to evaluate the potential vulnerability of rodent species to climate change in Oaxaca, the most mammal‐diverse state in Mexico. Depending on the climate scenario, most to all species were projected to have some level of vulnerability with narrow and restricted range species projected ...
Ramírez-Bautista A, Thorne JH, Schwartz MW, Williams JN.   +3 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Two rodent suborders have evolved missing amino acids in the lipid-binding region of apolipoprotein E. [PDF]

Lipids
Abstract The order Rodentia comprises nearly 45% of all extant taxa, currently organized into 31 living families, some 450 genera, and roughly 2010 species (Kelt & Patton, 2020). Considering that rodents began evolving at least 66 million years ago, it is not surprising that they have diversified into five distinct suborders.
Puppione DL.
europepmc   +2 more sources

Unraveling Biogeographic Boundaries Within the Sierra Madre Oriental, México: An Endemicity Analysis Using a Taxonomically Diverse Dataset. [PDF]

Ecol Evol
We provide boundaries of the Sierra Madre Oriental in Mexico through a multi‐taxa endemicity analysis. ABSTRACT The Sierra Madre Oriental (SMO) is a significant mountain range and one of Mexico's 14 biogeographical provinces. Its delimitation has been debated.
Goyenechea Mayer-Goyenechea I, Montiel-Canales G, Márquez J, Hornung-Leoni CT, Castillo-Cerón JM, Manríquez-Morán NL.   +5 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Wildlife hosts for OIE-Listed diseases: considerations regarding global wildlife trade and host-pathogen relationships. [PDF]

Vet Med Sci, 2017
The expanding international wildlife trade, combined with a lack of surveillance for key animal diseases in most countries, represents a potential pathway for transboundary disease movement. We reviewed peer‐reviewed literature for reports of 73 OIE‐Listed terrestrial animal diseases in wild animals and found 528 possible wild animal hosts using our ...
Smith KM, Machalaba CM, Jones H, Cáceres P, Popovic M, Olival KJ, Ben Jebara K, Karesh WB.   +7 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Pitfalls of using sequence databases for heterologous expression studies – a technical review

The Journal of Physiology, Volume 601, Issue 9, Page 1611-1623, 1 May 2023., 2023
Abstract figure legend Projects involving heterologous gene expression are often characterised by similar steps. Initially, database research (A) is necessary to retrieve information of full or partial sequences of a gene of interest. A multitude of genome assemblies are annotated and deposited in public databases or are available for refined search ...
Stephan Maxeiner, Gabriela Krasteva‐Christ, Mike Althaus   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

An evaluation of platforms for processing camera‐trap data using artificial intelligence

Methods in Ecology and Evolution, Volume 14, Issue 2, Page 459-477, February 2023., 2023
Abstract Camera traps have quickly transformed the way in which many ecologists study the distribution of wildlife species, their activity patterns and interactions among members of the same ecological community. Although they provide a cost‐effective method for monitoring multiple species over large spatial and temporal scales, the time required to ...
Juliana Vélez, William McShea, Hila Shamon, Paula J. Castiblanco‐Camacho, Michael A. Tabak, Carl Chalmers, Paul Fergus, John Fieberg   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Aligning conservation and public health goals to tackle unsustainable trade of mammals

Conservation Science and Practice, Volume 4, Issue 11, November 2022., 2022
Abstract Unsustainable wildlife trade is a major driver of biodiversity loss and an important public health threat. Yet, effective wildlife trade regulation is currently at odds with food security and economic incentives provided by this global, multibillion‐dollar industry.
Melissa R. Cronin, Luz A. de Wit, Lourdes Martínez‐Estévez   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Determinants of population persistence and abundance of terrestrial and arboreal vertebrates stranded in tropical forest land‐bridge islands

Conservation Biology, Volume 35, Issue 3, Page 870-883, June 2021., 2021
Abstract Megadams are among the key modern drivers of habitat and biodiversity loss in emerging economies. The Balbina Hydroelectric Dam of Central Brazilian Amazonia inundated 312,900 ha of primary forests and created approximately 3500 variable‐sized islands that still harbor vertebrate populations after nearly 3 decades after isolation. We estimated
Maíra Benchimol, Carlos A. Peres
wiley   +1 more source