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Enset Landraces: Conservation, Distribution, and Use in an Enset-Based Agricultural System. [PDF]

Scientifica (Cairo)
Enset is a unique food security crop for more than 25% of the population in Ethiopia and serves as a food, animal feed, medicine, and fiber source, with significant resilience and environmental adaptability. Enset growing zones harbor several landraces, resulting from differences in natural selection, human selection, and cultural management practices.
Kibatu T, Feyissa T, Demissew S, Muleta D.   +3 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Mitochondrial DNA D-Loop Polymorphisms among the Galla Goats Reveals Multiple Maternal Origins with Implication on the Functional Diversity of the HSP70 Gene. [PDF]

Genet Res (Camb)
Despite much attention given to the history of goat evolution in Kenya, information on the origin, demographic history, dispersal route, and genetic diversity of Galla goats remains unclear. Here, we examined the genetic background, diversity, demographic history, and population genetic variation of Galla goats using mtDNA D‐loop and HSP70 single ...
Masila EM, Ogada SO, Ogali IN, Kennedy GM, Too EK, Ommeh CS.   +5 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

A Brief Data on Water Demand Assessment for Sustainable Potable Water Supply in Yergalem Tula Kebele, Ethiopia.

J Environ Public Health, 2022
In spite of Ethiopia’s abundant water resources, such as rainwater, groundwater, river, and lake, there has been an increase in the demand for potable water during the past decade. Since 1990, Ethiopia has only achieved 57 percent of the Millennium Development Goal target for access to safe drinking water.
Vijayan DS, Tadesse HT, Yokamo Y, Divahar R, Bezabih Bashe T, Jebasingh Daniel J.   +5 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Persistence of Ancestral KhoeSan Mitochondrial Patterns in Contemporary South African Populations. [PDF]

Ann Hum Genet
Abstract Introduction Southern Africa has been inhabited by hunter‐gatherers for at least 20,000 years and has received diverse immigration flows in the last 2000 years. The original inhabitants have interacted with the pastoralist migrants from Eastern Africa (∼2000 ybp), followed by the southern Bantu migration arriving some 1000 ybp, and more ...
D'Amato ME, Ristow P, Livesey M, Heynes K, Huber N, Bravi C, Hansen AJ, Parson W.   +7 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

History and genetic diversity of African sheep: Contrasting phenotypic and genomic diversity. [PDF]

Anim Genet
Abstract Domesticated sheep have adapted to contrasting and extreme environments and continue to play important roles in local community‐based economies throughout Africa. Here we review the Neolithic migrations of thin‐tailed sheep and the later introductions of fat‐tailed sheep into eastern Africa.
Da Silva A, Ahbara A, Baazaoui I, Jemaa SB, Cao Y, Ciani E, Dzomba EF, Evans L, Gootwine E, Hanotte O, Harris L, Li MH, Mastrangelo S, Missohou A, Molotsi A, Muchadeyi FC, Mwacharo JM, Tallet G, Vernus P, Hall SJG, Lenstra JA.   +20 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Gender variation across the Oromo dialects: A corpus‐based study*

Studia Linguistica, Volume 77, Issue 3, Page 453-495, December 2023., 2023
Abstract This study aims to (1) demonstrate the position of the Oromo gender system in Corbett's (1991) typology of gender; (2) illustrate major syntactic gender variation across the Oromo dialects; (3) identify factors that contributed to the gender variation, and (4) illustrate the morphosyntax of the Oromo gender system.
Tekabe Legesse Feleke, Terje Lohndal
wiley   +1 more source

Assertion, denial, and the evolution of Boolean operators

Mind &Language, Volume 38, Issue 5, Page 1187-1207, November 2023., 2023
Given current data, only a few binary Boolean operators are expressed in lexically simple fashion in the world's languages: and, or, nor. These do not occur in every combination, for example, nor is not observed by itself. To explain these cross‐linguistic patterns, we propose an encoding of Boolean operators as update procedures to accept or reject ...
Fausto Carcassi, Giorgio Sbardolini
wiley   +1 more source

The Whale and the Microorganism: A Tale of a Classic Example and Linguistic Intuitions

Cognitive Science, Volume 47, Issue 4, April 2023., 2023
Abstract A classic example of the arbitrary relation between the way a word sounds and its meaning is that microorganism is a very long word that refers to a very small entity, whereas whale is a very short word that refers to something very big. This example, originally presented in Hockett's list of language's design features, has been often cited ...
Shiri Lev‐Ari
wiley   +1 more source

Exploring the relationships between genetic, linguistic and geographic distances in Bantu‐speaking populations

American Journal of Biological Anthropology, Volume 179, Issue 1, Page 104-117, September 2022., 2022
Abstract Objectives The predominance of Bantu languages in sub‐Saharan Africa has sparked a large debate over the processes through which they came to disperse over time and space—the “Bantu expansion.” The overall genetic similarity shown by Bantu‐speaking populations indicates that movement of people occurred too, but the extent of the correlation ...
Miguel González‐Santos, Francesco Montinaro, Rebecca Grollemund, Davide Marnetto, Masharip Atadzhanov, Celia A. May, Nedio Mabunda, Pierre de Maret, Ockie Oosthuizen, Erica Oosthuizen, Cristian Capelli   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Epidemiological study on Ixodid tick infestation and tick borne haemopathogens on cattle in Awi Zone, northwest Ethiopia

Veterinary Medicine and Science, Volume 8, Issue 5, Page 2194-2205, September 2022., 2022
A cross‐sectional study was conducted from December 2020 to July 2021 on Ixodid tick infestation and tick borne haemopathogens in North West Ethiopia. The overall prevalence of Ixodid tick infestation and tick borne haemopathogens were 45% and 3%, respectively. Babesia bigemina was the only haemoparasite detected in the present survey.
Hailemariam Adugna, Habtamu Tamrat
wiley   +1 more source