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Ploidy differences represent an impassable barrier for hybridization. Is there an exception among botiid loaches (Cypriniformes: Botiidae)?

open access: yesFrontiers in Marine Science, 2015
One of the most efficient mechanisms to keep animal lineages separate is a difference in ploidy level, since hybrid offspring from parents with different ploidy level are generally sterile.
Joerg Bohlen
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Auditory Contagious Yawning Is Highest Between Friends and Family Members: Support to the Emotional Bias Hypothesis

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2020
Contagious yawning differs from spontaneous yawning because it occurs when an individual yawns in response to someone else’s yawn. In Homo sapiens and some non-human primates contagious yawning is higher between strongly than weakly bonded individuals ...
Ivan Norscia   +3 more
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POSTCOLONIALISM /POSTCOMMUNISM: SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES: THE ROMANIAN CASE [PDF]

open access: yesUniversity of Bucharest Review. Literary and Cultural Studies Series, 2011
The paper starts by showing that the liminality and hybridity that Bhaba finds characteristic of the postcolonial subject also perfectly illustrates the situation in postcommunist states.
Monica Bottez
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Coexistence Patterns Between Ants And Spiders In Grassland Habitats

open access: yesSociobiology, 2014
The ecological importance of both ants and spiders is well known, as well as the relationship between certain spiders and ants. The two main strategies ˗ myrmecomorphy (ant-mimicking) and myrmecophagy (ant-eating) ˗ that connect spiders to ants have been
András Márton Rákóczi, Ferenc Samu
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Mimicry and Me: The Impact of Mimicry on Self–Construal

open access: yesSocial Cognition, 2007
Previous research has demonstrated that nonconscious interpersonal mimicry engenders liking, affiliation, empathy, and other positive social consequences. Some of these consequences have recently been shown to go beyond the dyad. In other words, interpersonal mimicry not only affects the way we feel toward our immediate interaction partner, but also ...
Ashton-James, C.E.   +4 more
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Cutaneous basal cell carcinoma mimicking small cell carcinoma

open access: yesClinical Case Reports, 2019
Key Clinical Message Neuroendocrine differentiation seen in basal cell carcinomas (BCC) is not generally appreciated by oncologists and can introduce a component of confusion when diagnosing a tumor and developing a management plan.
Samara E. Pollock   +3 more
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The interplay between viral molecular mimicry and host chromatin dynamics

open access: yesNucleus, 2023
Molecular mimicry is a commonly used mechanism by viruses to manipulate host cellular machinery and coordinate their life cycles. While histone mimicry is well studied, viruses also employ other mimicry strategies to affect chromatin dynamics.
Shumin Xiao   +3 more
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Cleotychini planthoppers from Perth region in Western Australia: The new genus Femotyche gen. nov., and more… (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Dictyopharidae)

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Taxonomy
The new genus Femotyche gen. nov. is described to accommodate two new species from Western Australia: Femotyche kerryae sp. nov. from Perth area and Femotyche hortorum sp. nov. from York.
Jérôme CONSTANT, Linda SEMERARO
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A Review of Philenis Champion, 1906 (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Conoderinae), with Descriptions of New Species from Central and South America

open access: yesDiversity, 2018
A brief review of the history of the taxonomic treatment of the genus Philenis Champion is presented and characters are discussed. Philenis flavipes Champion and P.
Henry Hespenheide
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Elaborate Mimetic Vocal Displays by Female Superb Lyrebirds

open access: yesFrontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2016
Some of the most striking vocalizations in birds are made by males that incorporate vocal mimicry in their sexual displays. Mimetic vocalization in females is largely undescribed, but it is unclear whether this is because of a lack of selection for vocal
Anastasia H Dalziell   +3 more
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