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Marked decline in forest-dependent small mammals following habitat loss and fragmentation in an Amazonian deforestation frontier [PDF]
, 2020 Agricultural frontier expansion into the Amazon over the last four decades has created million hectares of fragmented forests. While many species undergo local extinctions within remaining forest patches, this may be compensated by native species from ...
Palmeirim, Ana Filipa +2 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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Plantation forests and biodiversity conservation [PDF]
, 2003 There are five key reasons why biodiversity conservation should be considered a part of plantation management. (1) The plantation estate is large, and balancing various land management values with wood and pulp production is important when extensive ...
Hobbs, R.J., Lindenmayer, D.B., Salt, D.
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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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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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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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The "backdoor pathway" of androgen synthesis in human male sexual development. [PDF]
, 2019 Mammalian sex determination (male versus female) is largely controlled by genes, whereas sex differentiation (development of reproductive structures) is largely controlled by hormones. Work in the 20th century indicated that female external anatomy was a
Auchus, Richard J, Miller, Walter L
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Parasite, 2003 Progamotaenia capricorniensis sp. nov. (Cestoda: Anoplocephalidae) is described from the wallabies Macropus dorsalis (Gray, 1837] and Petrogale assimilis Ramsay, 1877 from Queensland, Australia.
Beveridge I., Turni C.
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Pathogens, 2019 We surveyed infection by Trypanosoma spp. and Leishmania spp. in small wild mammals from Cumari, Goiás State aiming to investigate the diversity of trypanosomatid in a modified landscape of the Brazilian Cerrado (and possible infection overlapping ...
Elida M. V. Brandão +8 more
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