Tracheal chambers as a key innovation for high‐frequency emission in bat echolocation
Abstract Key innovations are pivotal for biodiversity and facilitating evolutionary success, enabling organisms' adaptation to various ecological niches through the diversification of phenotypic traits. In mammals, notable adaptations include evolving hypsodonty for grazing on grasses and, for bats, evolving echolocation and wing acquisition.
Nicolas L. M. Brualla +7 more
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Removal of Off-Season Inflorescences Improves Fruit Retention, Kernel Quality, and Source-Sink Balance in Macadamia 'O.C'. [PDF]
Ning Y +6 more
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Three‐dimensional digital analysis of musteloid masticatory muscle architecture
Musteloids span an enormous breadth of dietary modes within a single superfamily. In this study, we utilize digital dissection techniques to reconstruct the internal 3D anatomy of muscles within the musteloid feeding apparatus, and explore how dietary specializations might alter the size, orientation, and curvature of fascicles therein.
Cassidy E. Davis +6 more
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Bite force estimates and morphological correlations of jaw muscles in parrots
Abstract Parrots (Order: Psittaciformes) are renowned for their high bite force (BF) and morphological correlates thereof, including a highly mobile skull and two unique mandibular adductor muscles—m. pseudomasseter and m. ethmomandibularis, with the former being hypothesized to increase force output.
Ana Carolina L. Faillace +3 more
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A sugar flow model predicts cell dynamics, weight, and quality of tomato at varying sink-source ratios and temperatures. [PDF]
De Visser PHB, Molenaar J, Struik PC.
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Abstract Composed of various minerals, the eggshell provides ideal conditions for embryonic development, and understanding its composition and structure is essential for clarifying its relationship with bone formation. This study characterized the structure and mineral profile of the Rhinoclemmys punctularia punctularia eggshell in relation to ...
Igor Mathias Trindade Lemos +8 more
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Genome-wide association mapping reveals stable genomic regions associated with fruit quality traits in tomato (<i>Solanum lycopersicum</i> L.). [PDF]
Srungarapu RS +5 more
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Abstract The ‘Palaeogene strata’ of the Itaboraí Basin (upper Paleocene‐lower Eocene), Southeastern Brazil, has preserved 29 genera and almost 50 species of metatherians (about 65% of its mammalian diversity). Among them, Eobrasilia coutoi Simpson, 1947 is the most enigmatic due to its quite fragmentary nature.
Leonardo M. Carneiro +10 more
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Predictors of carotenoid status in New Zealand children using carotenoid reflection score: a cross-sectional study. [PDF]
Rapson J +5 more
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