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A suture in time: The ontogeny of cranial suture morphology in mammals
Journal of Anatomy, Volume 248, Issue 3, Page 501-516, March 2026.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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Blood Parasites and Wildlife: The Development of a Discipline
Integrative Zoology, Volume 21, Issue 1, Page 2-10, January 2026.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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Journal of Anatomy, Volume 247, Issue 6, Page 1187-1203, December 2025.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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Ecology and Evolution, Volume 15, Issue 10, October 2025.Jaguars in the northern end of their distribution have recently become the center of conservation efforts; however, the State of Chihuahua has been underrepresented in monitoring projects. We present five new records of jaguars in high altitudes as well as the first evidence of two jaguars exhibiting cooperative behavior in Mexico.
M. Fernanda del Pozo‐López +2 more
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Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências, 2014 Despite the advances in the techniques for researching arboreal small mammals, detailed ecological data, such as habitat use patterns, are practically nonexistent for many species.
MAURY S.L. ABREU, LARISSA R. DE OLIVEIRA
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Morfologia das glândulas salivares de Glironia venusta Thomas, 1912 (Didelphimorphia)
Pesquisa Veterinária Brasileira, 2015 O objetivo deste trabalho foi descrever a morfologia das glândulas salivares de Glironia venusta. Foi utilizado um exemplar coletado no resgate de fauna da Usina Hidroeletrica Teles Pires. Este foi fixado com solução de formaldeído a 10%.
Bruna S. Vieira +4 more
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Acta Zoológica Lilloana, 2012 Se reportan los resultados del inventario de los Didelphimorphia de la Reserva Natural Laguna Blanca, Depar tamento San Pedro, Paraguay. Se registró la presencia de seis especies y se aportan datos ecológicos y morfológicos para los ejemplares ...
Paul Smith +4 more
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Geographic variation in Caluromys derbianus and Caluromys lanatus (Didelphimorphia: Didelphidae)
Zoologia (Curitiba), 2015 We analyzed the geographic variations in the shape and size of the cranium and mandible of two woolly opossums, Caluromys derbianus and Caluromys lanatus. Using geometric morphometrics we analyzed 202 specimens of C.
Raul Fonseca, Diego Astúa
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Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia, 2013 Nuevos registros de Lestodelphys sp. (Marsupialia: Didelphimorphia: Didelphinae: Thylamyini) son registrados en la base del Miembro Eloisa, Formación Río Luján (Pleistoceno tardío), provenientes de tres sitios localizados sobre la margen derecha de la ...
Agustín G. Martinelli +2 more
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A comparison of abundance estimators for small mammal populations
Zoologia (Curitiba), 2013 A major difficulty in the application of probabilistic models to estimations of mammal abundance is obtaining a data set that meets all of the assumptions of the model.
Marcelle Pacheco +5 more
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