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Freshwater snails of biomedical importance in the Niger River Valley: evidence of temporal and spatial patterns in abundance, distribution and infection with Schistosoma spp.

Parasites & Vectors, 2019
Background Sound knowledge of the abundance and distribution of intermediate host snails is key to understanding schistosomiasis transmission and to inform effective interventions in endemic areas. Methods A longitudinal field survey of freshwater snails
Muriel Rabone, Joris Hendrik Wiethase, Fiona Allan, Anouk Nathalie Gouvras, Tom Pennance, Amina Amadou Hamidou, Bonnie Lee Webster, Rabiou Labbo, Aidan Mark Emery, Amadou Djirmay Garba, David Rollinson   +10 more
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The Universal Evolution and the Origin of LIfe [PDF]

, 2021
The origin of life occupies a very important place in the study of the evolution. Its liminal location between life and non-life poses special challenges to researchers who study this subject. Current approaches in studying the origin and evolution of early life are reductive: they either reduce the domain of non-life to the domain of life or vice ...
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Key Roles of Dipterocarpaceae, Bark Type Diversity and Tree Size in Lowland Rainforests of Northeast Borneo—Using Functional Traits of Lichens to Distinguish Plots of Old Growth and Regenerating Logged Forests

Microorganisms, 2021
Many lowland rainforests in Southeast Asia are severely altered by selective logging and there is a need for rapid assessment methods to identify characteristic communities of old growth forests and to monitor restoration success in regenerating forests.
Holger Thüs, Pat Wolseley, Dan Carpenter, Paul Eggleton, Glen Reynolds, Charles S. Vairappan, Gothamie Weerakoon, Robert J. Mrowicki   +7 more
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Longitudinal survey on the distribution of Biomphalaria sudanica and B. choanomophala in Mwanza region, on the shores of Lake Victoria, Tanzania: implications for schistosomiasis transmission and control

Parasites & Vectors, 2017
Background Schistosomiasis is hyper-endemic in the Lake Victoria basin; with intestinal schistosomiasis plaguing communities adjacent to the lake, where the intermediate host snails live.
Anouk N. Gouvras, Fiona Allan, Safari Kinung’hi, Muriel Rabone, Aidan Emery, Teckla Angelo, Tom Pennance, Bonnie Webster, Honest Nagai, David Rollinson   +9 more
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The SITE-100 Project: Site-Based Biodiversity Genomics for Species Discovery, Community Ecology, and a Global Tree-of-Life

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2022
Most insect communities are composed of evolutionarily diverse lineages, but detailed phylogenetic analyses of whole communities are lacking, in particular in species-rich tropical faunas.
Xueni Bian, Xueni Bian, Beulah H. Garner, Beulah H. Garner, Huaxi Liu, Huaxi Liu, Alfried P. Vogler, Alfried P. Vogler   +7 more
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Morphological evolution and modularity of the caecilian skull

BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2019
Background Caecilians (Gymnophiona) are the least speciose extant lissamphibian order, yet living forms capture approximately 250 million years of evolution since their earliest divergences.
Carla Bardua, Mark Wilkinson, David J. Gower, Emma Sherratt, Anjali Goswami   +4 more
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Can Life History Predict the Effect of Demographic Stochasticity on Extinction Risk? [PDF]

The American Naturalist. 2012. 179(6): 706-720, 2013
Demographic stochasticity is important in determining extinction risks of small populations, but it is largely unknown how its effect depends on the life histories of species. We modeled effects of demographic stochasticity on extinction risk in a broad range of generalized life histories, using matrix models and branching processes.
arxiv   +1 more source

Life history

, 2018
Conforms to: oai:crdo.vjf.cnrs.fr:cocoon-49aefa90-8c1f-3ba8-a099 ...
Julien G. A. Martin, Pierre Bize
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Libraries of life: Using life history books with depressed care home residents [PDF]

, 2006
Depression is a common, and often undetected, psychiatric disorder in geriatric care home residents 1,2. Reminiscence, an independent nursing therapy used by a variety of health and social care professionals, can prevent or reduce depression 14.
Plastow, N A
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History of life on Earth [PDF]

Current Biology, 2015
All of you will be familiar with those educational graphics that put into stark perspective how tiny is our place in the Universe, how on a clock that began ticking with the origin of life, humans evolved less than a minute before midnight. And the time since Current Biology began, 25 years ago, would be the merest fraction of a second.
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