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Evaluating purifying selection in the mitochondrial DNA of various mammalian species [PDF]
, 2013 Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA), the circular DNA molecule inside the mitochondria of all eukaryotic cells, has been shown to be under the effect of purifying selection in several species.
Abrantes, Diogo +8 more
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Ecology and Evolution, 2020 Understanding how biodiversity components are related under different environmental factors is a fundamental challenge for ecology studies, yet there is little knowledge of this interplay among the biotas, especially small mammals, in karst mountain ...
Jian Sun +8 more
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Parasites & Vectors, 2023 Background Among hard ticks (Acari: Ixodidae), the genus Ixodes comprises the highest number of species, which in turn are most numerous in the Afrotropical zoogeographic region.
Sándor Hornok +9 more
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The Fast and the Furriest: Investigating the Rate of Selection on Mammalian Toxins
Toxins, 2022 The evolution of venom and the selection pressures that act on toxins have been increasingly researched within toxinology in the last two decades, in part due to the exceptionally high rates of diversifying selection observed in animal toxins.
Leah Lucy Joscelyne Fitzpatrick +3 more
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Identifying Norwegian shrews (Soricidae) from non-dental mandibular characters
Fauna Norvegica, 1992 A method for discriminating between 6 species of Norwegian shrews (Soricidae) based on a few characters in the lower mandible is described. Length, height, and one angle were measured in cleaned mandibles (n = 297). When plotting angle/length on height,
Tore Fredriksen +2 more
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Evolutionary history of LINE-1 in the major clades of placental mammals [PDF]
, 2016 BACKGROUND: LINE-1 constitutes an important component of mammalian genomes. It has a dynamic evolutionary history characterized by the rise, fall and replacement of subfamilies.
Dobigny, Gauthier +3 more
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Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad, 2017 Some small-eared shrews, genus Cryptotis, display modifications of the forelimb that have been interpreted as an adaptation for burrowing. As most of the species in the genus inhabit areas with poor accessibility and it is difficult to obtain direct ...
Lázaro Guevara
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Recombinogenic Telomeres in Diploid Sorex granarius (Soricidae, Eulipotyphla) Fibroblast Cells [PDF]
Molecular and Cellular Biology, 2014 The telomere structure in the Iberian shrew Sorex granarius is characterized by unique, striking features, with short arms of acrocentric chromosomes carrying extremely long telomeres (up to 300 kb) with interspersed ribosomal DNA (rDNA) repeat blocks. In this work, we investigated the telomere physiology of S. granarius fibroblast cells and found that
N S, Zhdanova +11 more
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Mammal endemism In Italy: A review [PDF]
, 2018 Although there are various checklists of Italian mammals, there is not yet a synthesis of those mammals that are endemic to Italy. Therefore, we provide for the first time a detailed review on Italian mammal endemic species including endemic taxa ...
Amori, Giovanni, Castiglia, Riccardo
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Beremendia (Mammalia, Soricidae) remains from the late Early Pleistocene Somssich Hill 2 locality (Southern Hungary) and their taxonomic, biostratigraphical, palaeoecological and palaeobiogeographical relations [PDF]
, 2014 Beremendia fi ssidens and B. minor remains of the late Early Pleistocene vertebrate fauna of the Somssich Hill 2 locality are described. B. minor is reported here as a new element in the site.
Botka, D., Mészáros, L.
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