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Frontiers in Zoology, 2020 Background The Chinese monal (Lophophorus lhuysii) is an endangered bird species, with a wild population restricted to the mountains in southwest China, and only one known captive population in the world.
Dandan Jiang +7 more
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Fecal Metabolomics Reveals the Foraging Strategies of Giant Pandas for Different Parts of Bamboo
Animals, 2023 Climate change-induced food shortages pose major threats to wildlife conservation, and the exclusive reliance of giant pandas on bamboo makes them particularly vulnerable.
Zheng Yan +5 more
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Mitochondrial DNA. Part B. Resources, 2020 The tick Haemaphysalis flava (Acari, Ixodidae) is an obligatory blood-feeding ectoparasite of the giant panda and is also a vector for transmission of pathogenic microorganisms.
Chengdong Wang +10 more
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Animals, 2023 The objective of this study was to understand biological characteristics of one bacteria strain named as VPG which was isolated from multiple organs of a dead captive giant panda cub.
Xiaoyan Su +9 more
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Evolutionary Dynamics of Giant Viruses and their Virophages [PDF]
, 2013 Giant viruses contain large genomes, encode many proteins atypical for viruses, replicate in large viral factories, and tend to infect protists. The giant virus replication factories can in turn be infected by so called virophages, which are smaller ...
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F1000Research, 2023 Resource allocation is essential to the selection and implementation of innovative projects in science and technology. With large stakes involved in concentrating large fundings over a few promising projects, current “winner-take-all” models for grant ...
Marc Santolini +8 more
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SOPHIE velocimetry of Kepler transit candidates XVII. The physical properties of giant exoplanets within 400 days of period [PDF]
, 2015 While giant extrasolar planets have been studied for more than two decades now, there are still some open questions such as their dominant formation and migration process, as well as their atmospheric evolution in different stellar environments.
Adibekyan, V. +21 more
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The next widespread bamboo flowering poses a massive risk to the giant panda [PDF]
, 2019 The IUCN Red List has downgraded several species from “endangered” to “vulnerable” that still have largely unknown extinction risks. We consider one of those downgraded species, the giant panda, a bamboo specialist.
Cai, Qiong +19 more
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The complete mitochondrial genome sequence of Cletus rubidiventris (Heteroptera: Coreidae)
Mitochondrial DNA. Part B. Resources, 2020 Cletus rubidiventris is a crop pest, especially for rice. This study first reported the complete mitochondrial genome of this species. The total length of mitochondrial genome is 15,590 bp and including 13 PCGs, 22 tRNA genes, and 2 rRNA genes, with 31.8%
Shijun Yang +6 more
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Intestinal acetic acid regulates the synthesis of sex pheromones in captive giant pandas
Frontiers in Microbiology, 2023 As a typical solitary animal, adult giant pandas rely on chemical signals (sex pheromones) to transmit reproductive information during oestrous. Although researchers have confirmed that the gut microbiota is related to the emission and reception of sex ...
Ming-yue Zhang +19 more
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