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ON THE LIFE-HISTORY OF THE COHO. [PDF]
Contributions to Canadian Biology and Fisheries, 1915 not available
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Predicting life history parameters for all fishes worldwide.
Ecological Applications, 2017 Scientists and resource managers need to know life history parameters (e.g., average mortality rate, individual growth rate, maximum length or mass, and timing of maturity) to understand and respond to risks to natural populations and ecosystems.
J. Thorson, S. Munch, J. Cope, Jin Gao
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Convergent evolution in toothed whale cochleae
BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2019 Background Odontocetes (toothed whales) are the most species-rich marine mammal lineage. The catalyst for their evolutionary success is echolocation - a form of biological sonar that uses high-frequency sound, produced in the forehead and ultimately ...
Travis Park +4 more
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Life History Adaptations to Seasonality.
Integrative and Comparative Biology, 2017 Seasonality creates a template for many natural processes and evolutionary adaptations. Organisms are often faced with an annual cycle consisting of a productive (favorable) and unproductive period.
Ø. Varpe
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Parasites & Vectors, 2015 Background Human urogenital schistosomiasis caused by Schistosoma haematobium is widely distributed across Africa and is increasingly targeted for control and regional elimination.
B. L. Webster +12 more
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The Deep History of Life [PDF]
The Biomedical & Life Sciences Collection, 2012 The conventional fossil record is built of hard parts—bones, shells, and decay-resistant organic tissues buried in the sediments that accumulate on floodplains, in lakes, and on the seafloor. In the 1950s, geologists first began the routine application of radioactive decay to problems of geologic age.
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Life History Theory and Evolutionary Psychology
, 2015 In this chapter we present an overview of life history theory and review its main psychological applications. We first discuss basic trade-offs in life history allocations and introduce the concept of life history strategies.
H. Kaplan, S. Gangestad
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The Tsimane Health and Life History Project: Integrating anthropology and biomedicine
Evolutionary Anthropology (print), 2017 The Tsimane Health and Life History Project, an integrated bio‐behavioral study of the human life course, is designed to test competing hypotheses of human life‐history evolution.
M. Gurven +7 more
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Environmental DNA, 2021 While previous studies have highlighted the potential of DNA‐based methods for the biomonitoring of freshwater macroinvertebrates, a limited number have investigated homogenization of bulk samples that include debris, in order to reduce sample‐processing
Lyndall Pereira‐da‐Conceicoa +5 more
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The Life‐History of the Ovary. [PDF]
BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, 1911 n ...
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