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A Mata Atlântica é um dos biomas mais ameaçados do Brasil e o estabelecimento de áreas protegidas é uma das formas para se conservar este bioma. Para legalizar uma unidade de conservação, é preciso conhecer a fauna e flora local.
Caio Ferreira +3 more
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A suture in time: The ontogeny of cranial suture morphology in mammals
Mammal cranial sutures are important indicators of the biomechanical and developmental pressures acting upon the skull. Across three prominent sutures dividing the vault of the mammalian skull, divergent patterns emerge both taxonomically and developmentally.
Heather E. White +4 more
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Predation of rodent Calomys sp. (Cricetidae), by marsupial Monodelphis domestica (Didelphidae) at Buíque, PE [PDF]
This paper records the predation on a specimen of Calomys sp. by Monodelphis domestica. The event took place on 07/30/2008, during the night, in a Caatinga area in Parque Nacional do Catimbau, Buique, Pernambuco, Brazil.
Ednilza Maranhão dos Santos +1 more
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As informações relativas quanto à similaridade da fauna colonizadora de animais silvestres em decomposição são incipientes entre os diferentes modelos de carcaças.
Vanessa Abelaira dos Anjos +3 more
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Blood Parasites and Wildlife: The Development of a Discipline
Changes in our knowledge on blood parasite infections of wild animals in the last 30 years is reviewed with emphasis on taxonomy and phylogeny, impact of infections on fitness, and distribution of blood parasites. ABSTRACT In the last 30 years, the area of the study of parasitism caused by blood parasite infections on wildlife has suffered an ...
Santiago Merino
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Karyotype composition of some rodents and marsupials from Chapada Diamantina (Bahia, Brasil)
The Chapada Diamantina (CD) is located in Bahia State, between 11-14° S and 41-43° W, being part of the Serra do Espinhaço. The occurrence of different habitats and transition areas permits an interesting mammal fauna composition, with species from ...
LG. Pereira, L. Geise
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Alfred L. Gardner (1993): Order Didelphimorphia. In: Don E. Wilson, DeeAnn M. Reeder (Eds): Mammal Species of the World (2nd Edition). Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press: 15-23, ISBN: 1-56098-217-9, DOI: http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo ...
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Virome Analysis of Small Mammals from the Brazilian Amazon
The municipalities of Peixe-Boi and Santa Bárbara do Pará, both in the Pará State (eastern Amazon), have more than half of their territory deforested.
Leonardo Henrique Almeida Hernández +9 more
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MORPHOMETRICS OF THE GENUS DIDELPHIS (DIDELPHIMORPHIA: DIDELPHIDAE) IN VENEZUELA [PDF]
We review systematics of genus Didelphis in Venezuela by craniometrical analyses of 93 skulls from adult D. albiventris pernigra, D. a. imperfecta, and D. marsupialis. Adults were sexually invariant for most characters, although males were, in general, larger than females. Complementary morphometric data obtained from literature on D.
Jacint Ventura +3 more
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The marsupial masticatory apparatus has rarely been studied until recently, mainly in Australasian species. We therefore reconstructed the maximum bite forces of the South American Linnaeus's mouse opossum Marmosa murina using in vivo bites, specimen dissections, and 3D static equilibrium of the jaw muscles.
Vincent Decuypere +5 more
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