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Frontiers in Neuroanatomy, 2013 Spinal inhibition is required to generate coordinated outputs between antagonistic muscles during locomotion. It relies on low neuronal chloride concentration set by two cation-chloride cotransporters, NKCC1 and KCC2 which, respectively, pumps Cl- in or ...
Ha-Loan ePhan, Jean-François ePflieger
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Heringeriana, 2015 A review of small non-volant mammal species of the APA Gama e Cabeça de Veado was carried out, including new surveys in the "Estação Ecológica do Jardim Botânico" (EEJBB) and "Reserva Ecológica do Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística ...
Cibele R. Bonvicino +5 more
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Cells, 2021 Males have evolved species-specifical sperm morphology and swimming patterns to adapt to different fertilization environments. In eutherians, only a small fraction of the sperm overcome the diverse obstacles in the female reproductive tract and ...
Jae Yeon Hwang +3 more
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Anatomical study of brachial plexuses of a koala, a Tasmanian devil, and a common ringtail possum
Folia MorphologicaBACKGROUND: Marsupials have a narrower range of forelimb morphological features than placental mammals. It is hypothesised that this is due to a constraint in the reproductive biology of marsupials.
Yutaro Natsuyama +8 more
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Parasite, 2004 A new species of heligmosomoid nematode Sutarostrongylus johnsoni sp. n., belonging to the sub-family Herpetostrongylinae Skrjabin & Schultz, is described from the small intestine (duodenum) of the red-legged pademelon, Thylogale stigmatica (Gould, 1860)
Beveridge I., Durette-Desset M.C.
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Ecological selectivity and the evolution of mammalian substrate preference across the K–Pg boundary
Ecology and Evolution, 2021 The Cretaceous–Paleogene (K–Pg) mass extinction 66 million years ago was characterized by a worldwide ecological catastrophe and rapid species turnover. Large‐scale devastation of forested environments resulting from the Chicxulub asteroid impact likely ...
Jonathan J. Hughes +4 more
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Zoologia (Curitiba), 2011 Despite the great diversity of Brazilian Atlantic forest small mammals, natural history of most species is unknown due to their cryptic and nocturnal habits, but also due to the inadequacy of methods to capture some species, especially those of arboreal ...
Diogo Loretto, Marcus Vinícius Vieira
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Phylogeny, diet, and cranial integration in australodelphian marsupials.
, 2007 Studies of morphological integration provide valuable information on the correlated evolution of traits and its relationship to long-term patterns of morphological evolution.
Goswami, A +3 more
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American marsupials chromosomes: why study them?
Genetics and Molecular BiologyMarsupials, one of the three main groups of mammals, are only found in Australia and in the American continent. Studies performed in Australian marsupials have demonstrated the great potential provided by the group for the understanding of basic genetic ...
Marta Svartman
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