Genetic Diversification in a New Guinean Frog Genus (<i>Mantophryne</i>, Microhylidae) was Driven by Ancient Tectonic Activity and Climate Reorganisation. [PDF]
Ecol EvolOur dated phylogeny and biogeographic analysis of Mantophryne, a microhylid frog genus endemic to New Guinea, revealed origins in the East Papuan Composite Terrane (EPCT) in the late Pliocene. Dispersal and diversification out from the EPCT was driven by tectonic activity and climate reorganisation, creating habitat corridors and isolations in the Late
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Melanesia holds the world’s most diverse and intact insular amphibian fauna [PDF]
Communications Biology, 2022 Melanesia, centred on the vast tropical island of New Guinea, is shown to have the most diverse and intact insular frog fauna in the world.
Paul M. Oliver +15 more
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Global patterns and trends in kidney cancer incidence and mortality. [PDF]
Int J CancerWhat's New? Decreasing mortality from kidney cancer in developed countries contrasts with persistently high or rising mortality in less‐developed regions. Factors underlying this widening gap remain incompletely understood. Using GLOBOCAN 2022 data, the present study examined patterns in kidney cancer incidence and mortality worldwide and the relation ...
Barchuk A +5 more
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A new species of insular treefrog in the Litoria thesaurensis species group from the Nakanai Mountains, New Britain, Papua New Guinea [PDF]
Vertebrate Zoology, 2022 The Islands of East Melanesia have a unique and highly endemic frog fauna derived entirely from overseas colonisation events. Within East Melanesia New Britain is a notable centre of frog diversity and endemism, with at least 15 endemic species, mostly ...
Stephen J. Richards, Paul M. Oliver
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Transoceanic origin of microendemic and flightless New Caledonian weevils [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2017 The origin of the astonishing New Caledonian biota continues to fuel a heated debate among advocates of a Gondwanan relict scenario and defenders of late oceanic dispersal.
Emmanuel F. A. Toussaint +3 more
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Solidarity statement by academics attending MMFF
Pacific Journalism Review, 2020 Delegates to the Melanesia Media Freedom Forum express their solidarity with media workers in Melanesia in their struggle for freedom of expression, security, and professional recognition.
Melanesia Media Freedom Forum
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“Mixed identity of circumstances”: Bronisław Malinowski in Australia and Melanesia
Anglica. An International Journal of English Studies, 2021 During his stay in Australia and Melanesia from 1914 to 1920, the anthropologist Bronisław Malinowski frequently experienced dichotomous and contradictory attitudes to people, places, and events: the contrast between the ‘civilized’ Australia and the ...
Krzysztof Kosecki
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Anglica. An International Journal of English Studies, 2022 This paper offers a preliminary cultural semantic exploration of a key social concept of the Melanesian worldview advanced in the anthropological literature of the area. It is argued that the cultural meaning of this notion can be accessed by focusing on
Paweł Kornacki
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Pitarah Manusia Nusa Tenggara Timur Berdasarkan Ceritera Kromosom Y
Scientiae Educatia: Jurnal Pendidikan Sains, 2017 STUDY OF HUMAN ANCESTORS NUSA TENGGARA TIMUR INDONESIA BASED ON Y CHROMOSOME.Genetic studies conducted in NTT region focused on four islands namely Flores, Sumba, Alor, and Timor.
Meti OFI Tefu, Ferry Fredy Karwur
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Cultural Heritage and Identity in the Literature of Australian South Sea Islanders and Other Media
eTropic: electronic journal of studies in the tropics, 2013 Australian South Sea Islanders represent a small community whose ancestors mainly came from Melanesian Islands to work as indentured labour in the sugar cane plantations of Queensland from the 1860’s to the beginning of the 20th century.
Carine Davias
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