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130th anniversary of virology

Вопросы вирусологии, 2022
130 years ago, in 1892, our great compatriot Dmitry Iosifovich Ivanovsky (18641920) discovered a new type of pathogen viruses. Viruses have existed since the birth of life on Earth and for more than three billion years, as the biosphere evolved, they ...
Dmitry K. Lvov, Sergey V. Alkhovsky, Oleg Petrovich Zhirnov   +2 more
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Reconstructing Linguistic History: Language as Legacy in Golding’s The Inheritors

Études Britanniques Contemporaines, 2010
Apparently familiar with linguistic anthropology, Golding stages in his second novel the meeting of two groups of Hominidae we will conveniently call Neanderthals and Homo sapiens.
Sandrine Sorlin
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Positive selection in bone morphogenetic protein 15 targets a natural mutation associated with primary ovarian insufficiency in human.

PLoS ONE, 2013
Bone Morphogenetic Protein 15 (BMP15) is a TGFβ-like oocyte-derived growth factor involved in ovarian folliculogenesis as a critical regulator of many granulosa cell processes.
Sylvain Auclair, Raffaella Rossetti, Camille Meslin, Olivier Monestier, Elisa Di Pasquale, Géraldine Pascal, Luca Persani, Stéphane Fabre   +7 more
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First partial skeleton of a 1.34-million-year-old Paranthropus boisei from Bed II, Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania.

PLoS ONE, 2013
Recent excavations in Level 4 at BK (Bed II, Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania) have yielded nine hominin teeth, a distal humerus fragment, a proximal radius with much of its shaft, a femur shaft, and a tibia shaft fragment (cataloged collectively as OH 80). Those
Manuel Domínguez-Rodrigo, Travis Rayne Pickering, Enrique Baquedano, Audax Mabulla, Darren F Mark, Charles Musiba, Henry T Bunn, David Uribelarrea, Victoria Smith, Fernando Diez-Martin, Alfredo Pérez-González, Policarpo Sánchez, Manuel Santonja, Doris Barboni, Agness Gidna, Gail Ashley, José Yravedra, Jason L Heaton, Maria Carmen Arriaza   +18 more
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Fig. 2 in Gorilla beringei (Primates: Hominidae) [PDF]

, 2018
Fig. 2.—Juvenile male Gorilla beringei beringei, Volcanoes National Park, Virunga Mountains, Rwanda. Photograph used with permission of Alexandra Kralick.Published as part of Canington, Stephanie L, 2018, Gorilla beringei (Primates: Hominidae), pp.
Canington, Stephanie L
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Natural history of the ERVWE1 endogenous retroviral locus

Retrovirology, 2005
Background The human HERV-W multicopy family includes a unique proviral locus, termed ERVWE1, whose full-length envelope ORF was preserved through evolution by the action of a selective pressure. The encoded Env protein (Syncytin) is involved in hominoid
Duret Laurent, Oriol Guy, Bouton Olivier, Beliaeff Jean, Bonnaud Bertrand, Mallet François   +5 more
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A novel attention-getting vocalization in zoo-housed western gorillas.

PLoS ONE, 2022
As a critical aspect of language, vocal learning is extremely rare in animals, having only been described in a few distantly related species. New evidence, however, extends vocal learning/innovation to the primate order, with zoo-housed chimpanzees and ...
Roberta Salmi, Monica Szczupider, Jodi Carrigan   +2 more
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Эволюционные характеристики ассоциативной генной сети ренин-ангиотензин-альдостероновой системы (РААС) [PDF]

Письма в Вавиловский журнал генетики и селекции
Ренин-ангиотензин-альдостероновая система (РААС) играет ключевую роль в гормональной регуляции артери- ального давления. В этой работе исследованы эволюционные характеристики ассоциативной генной сети РААС человека, ра- нее реконструированной нами с ...
В.В. Суслов, Х.И. Кузьминых, Н.М. Леванова, Р.А. Иванов, Е.Ю. Кондратюк, И.В. Чадаева, М.П. Пономаренко   +6 more
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Structural Characterization of the Highly Restricted Down Syndrome Critical Region on 21q22.13: New KCNJ6 and DSCR4 Transcript Isoforms

Frontiers in Genetics, 2021
Down syndrome (DS) is caused by trisomy of chromosome 21 and it is the most common genetic cause of intellectual disability (ID) in humans. Subjects with DS show a typical phenotype marked by facial dysmorphisms and ID.
Francesca Antonaros, Margherita Pitocco, Domenico Abete, Beatrice Vione, Allison Piovesan, Lorenza Vitale, Pierluigi Strippoli, Maria Caracausi, Maria Chiara Pelleri   +8 more
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Fig. 4 in Gorilla beringei (Primates: Hominidae) [PDF]

, 2018
Fig. 4.—Dorsal, ventral, and lateral views of skull and lateral view of mandible of an adult male Gorilla beringei beringei (United States National Museum of Natural History [USNM] 395636) from Mt.
Canington, Stephanie L
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