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Évolution biologique et ADN ancien [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
Après deux décennies de découvertes et de controverses, la paléogénétique semble, sinon avoir atteint l’âge de raison, du moins avoir délaissé les frasques de son impétueuse jeunesse.
Barriel, Véronique, Debruyne, Régis
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Large mammal remains from the early pleistocene site of Podere San Lorenzo (Perugia, Central Italy) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Most of the research on fossil mammals from Umbria (central Italy) has been carried out in the southwestern branch of the Tiber basin, due to its paleontological richness.
Azzarà, Beatrice   +6 more
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Elephant Elephas maximus Linnaeus (Proboscidea: Elephantidae) migration paths in the Nilgiri Hills, India in the late 1970s

open access: yesJournal of Threatened Taxa, 2012
The study presented was carried out in 1978 with the support of the Asian Elephant Specialist Group (AsESG) of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Species Survival Commission (SSC).
E.R.C. Davidar   +3 more
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Exotic Materials of the Bone Artifacts from the Golden Horde Cities’ Excavations

open access: yesВестник Волгоградского государственного университета. Серия 4. История, регионоведение, международные отношения, 2018
The material of bone items discovered during the excavations of the Golden Horde time in Bolgar’s central part has been examined using the methodological technique worked out in the Laboratory of the Natural Scientific Methods, Archaeology Institute of ...
Liliya V. Yavorskaya
doaj   +1 more source

Bush meat sold on the markets in Kisangani: analysis addressed to the right on species conservation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
In order to identify the game species sold on the central market of Kisangani and to check up the respectability of the regulation of hunting by the Congolese population, we collected data from January to August 2009 and from December 2014 to May 2015 ...
A, B. D. (Benjamin)   +6 more
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Mortality records (1979–2011) shed light on threats to Asian Elephants Elephas maximus Linnaeus, 1758 (Mammalia: Proboscidea: Elephantidae) in Nilgiris, southern India

open access: yesJournal of Threatened Taxa, 2015
We compiled records of 291 elephant deaths over a 33-year period (1979–2011) from the Mudumalai Tiger Reserve and the reserved forests of Nilgiri North and South divisions of southern India from the databases of the Tamil Nadu Forest Department, the ...
Priya Davidar   +5 more
doaj   +3 more sources

Proboscidean mitogenomics: chronology and mode of elephant evolution using mastodon as outgroup.

open access: yesPLoS Biology, 2007
We have sequenced the complete mitochondrial genome of the extinct American mastodon (Mammut americanum) from an Alaskan fossil that is between 50,000 and 130,000 y old, extending the age range of genomic analyses by almost a complete glacial cycle.
Nadin Rohland   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Reassessing diagnostic postcranial traits in Pleistocene elephants: evidence from Palaeoloxodon antiquus and Mammuthus in Italy

open access: yesActa Palaeontologica Polonica
The fossil elephant remains from the lower Middle Pleistocene site of Contrada Monticelli (Apulia, southern Italy) are described here in detail for the first time.
Dario Stefanelli   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Genetic variation at hair length candidate genes in elephants and the extinct woolly mammoth [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Background Like humans, the living elephants are unusual among mammals in being sparsely covered with hair. Relative to extant elephants, the extinct woolly mammoth, Mammuthus primigenius, had a dense hair cover and extremely long hair, which likely were
Alex D Greenwood   +9 more
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Survey of Forest Elephants Loxodonta cyclotis (Matschie, 1900) (Mammalia: Proboscidea: Elephantidae) in the Bia Conservation Area, Ghana

open access: yesJournal of Threatened Taxa, 2014
Information on elephant ranges and numbers is vital for effective conservation and management, especially in western Africa where elephant populations are small and scattered.
Emmanuel Danquah, Samuel K. Oppong
doaj   +1 more source

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