The evolutionary history of dogs in the Americas [PDF]
Science, 2018Lineage losses for man's best friendDogs have been present in North America for at least 9000 years. To better understand how present-day breeds and populations reflect their introduction to the New World, Ní Leathlobhairet al.sequenced the mitochondrial and nuclear genomes of ancient dogs (see the Perspective by Goodman and Karlsson). The earliest New
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Philanthropy in America: A History
Canadian Journal of Nonprofit and Social Economy Research, 2012Philanthropy in America: A History. Written by Olivier Zunz, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2012. 396 pp. ISBN: 9780691128368 (cloth).
Alicia Schatteman
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"A catalogue of Spanish books and manuscripts": v. 2, p. 523-535. ; First edition. Contains Books I-VIII, the history of the discovery of America and the conquest of Mexico and Peru. (Books IX-X, the history of Virginia and New England, first appeared separately in 1796) ; Mode of access: Internet. ; BANC; xE143.R62: Books IX and X bound with vol. 1.
W. Robertson
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A History of South America [PDF]
The Hispanic American Historical Review, 1931Mary Wilhelmine Williams
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Replacing mechanical protection with colorful faces–twice: parallel evolution of the non-operculate marine worm-snail genera Thylacodes (Guettard, 1770) and Cayo n. gen. (Gastropoda: Vermetidae) [PDF]
PeerJ, 2023Vermetid worm-snails are sessile and irregularly coiled marine mollusks common in warmer nearshore and coral reef environments that are subject to high predation pressures by fish. Often cryptic, some have evolved sturdy shells or long columellar muscles
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Skimming for barcodes: rapid production of mitochondrial genome and nuclear ribosomal repeat reference markers through shallow shotgun sequencing [PDF]
PeerJ, 2022DNA barcoding is critical to conservation and biodiversity research, yet public reference databases are incomplete. Existing barcode databases are biased toward cytochrome oxidase subunit I (COI) and frequently lack associated voucher specimens or ...
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Mezcal worm in a bottle: DNA evidence suggests a single moth species [PDF]
PeerJ, 2023Mezcals are distilled Mexican alcoholic beverages consumed by many people across the globe. One of the most popular mezcals is tequila, but there are other forms of mezcal whose production has been part of Mexican culture since the 17th century.
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Morphological variation of the relictual alveolar structures in the mandibles of baleen whales [PDF]
PeerJ, 2021Living baleen whales (mysticetes) are bulk filter feeders that use keratinous baleen plates to filter food from prey laden water. Extant mysticetes are born entirely edentulous, though they possess tooth buds early in ontogeny, a trait inherited from ...
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Preservation of latest Cretaceous (Maastrichtian)—Paleocene frogs (Eorubeta nevadensis) of the Sheep Pass Formation of east-central Nevada and implications for paleogeography of the Nevadaplano [PDF]
PeerJ, 2020Here we report on exceptional preservation of remains of the frog Eorubeta nevadensis in deposits of the Sheep Pass Formation, ranging from Late Cretaceous to Eocene, in the south Egan Range, Nevada.
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