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Effect of Substrate Compliance on the Jumping Mechanism of the Tree Frog (<i>Polypedates dennys</i>). [PDF]

Biomimetics (Basel)
Zhou R, Zhang B, Wang Z, Dai Z.
europepmc   +1 more source

Preservation of stable isotope niche dynamics in squamate museum specimens

Journal of Animal Ecology, EarlyView.
This paper presents the first research on the effects of fluid specimen preservation in a community context, demonstrating the recovery of metrics of niche dynamics across a diverse array of squamate taxa. Abstract Natural history museums are invaluable resources for large‐scale ecological and evolutionary studies, but certain ecological traits can be ...
Maggie R. Grundler, Erica Bree Rosenblum
wiley   +1 more source

Persistence of a declining anuran species across its distribution. [PDF]

PLoS One
Koen EL, Ellington EH, Barichivich WJ, Kochman H, Enge KM, Walls SC.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Closeness and disappointment in Jordanian friendships Proximité et déception en amitié en Jordanie

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Western folk models of friendship assume that friends like one another, implying mutually positive feelings. However, accounts of friendship from across times and places suggest that disappointment goes along with friendship as often as mutual affection.
Susan MacDougall
wiley   +1 more source

Identification, structural features, and potential functional significance of the myodural Bridge in African clawed frog, the Xenopus laevis. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Yang H, Song X, Yue C, Gong J, Ma W, Zhang RT, Sun JX, Li TL, Gilmore C, Zhang XH, Zhang J, Song Y, Yu SB, Li CY, Tang W, Li C, Sui HJ.   +16 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Linguistic Evidence Suggests that Xiōng‐nú and Huns Spoke the Same Paleo‐Siberian Language

Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract The Xiōng‐nú were a tribal confederation who dominated Inner Asia from the third century BC to the second century AD. Xiōng‐nú descendants later constituted the ethnic core of the European Huns. It has been argued that the Xiōng‐nú spoke an Iranian, Turkic, Mongolic or Yeniseian language, but the linguistic affiliation of the Xiōng‐nú and the ...
Svenja Bonmann, Simon Fries
wiley   +1 more source

Homology-mediated transformation of frog-killing fungus <i>Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis</i> illuminates chytrid development and pathogenesis. [PDF]

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
Brody SM, Kalinka E, Prostak SM, Carvalho T, Man J, James TY, Fritz-Laylin LK.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Was Einhard a widower?

Gender &History, EarlyView.
Abstract The ‘widow’ is a gendered, socially contingent category. Women who experienced spousal bereavement in the early middle ages faced various socio‐economic and legal ramifications; the ‘widow’ was further a rhetorical figure with a defined emotional register. The widower is, by contrast, an anachronistic category.
Ingrid Rembold
wiley   +1 more source

Datasets of 16S rRNA gene amplicon sequences, metabolites, and soluble immune components in bronchoalveolar lavage samples from severe asthmatic and age-matched control children. [PDF]

Data Brief
Briard M, Guillon B, Venot E, Grauso M, Bruneau A, Rossignol MN, Fenaille F, Castelli F, Thomas M, Lezmi G, Leite-de-Moraes M, Adel-Patient K, Saint-Criq V.   +12 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The Gender of Fossil Fuels: Oil and Domestic Perils in Mandate Palestine

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article explores the gender dynamics behind the rise of kerosene – an oil derivative – as the main domestic fuel in Mandate Palestine. It argues that these dynamics were constitutive in determining who began to use oil, where and for what purposes, in turn demonstrating that women in Palestine were the promoters and targets of a campaign ...
Shira Pinhas
wiley   +1 more source