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Systematics within vultures: a clade at risk [PDF]
Background Populations of the Oriental White-backed Vulture (Gyps bengalensis) have declined by over 95% within the past decade. This decline is largely due to incidental consumption of the non-steroidal anti-inflammatory veterinary ...
Johnson, Jeff A +3 more
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Protecting an Ecosystem Service: Approaches to Understanding and Mitigating Threats to Wild Insect Pollinators [PDF]
Insect pollination constitutes an ecosystem service of global importance, providing significant economic and aesthetic benefits as well as cultural value to human society, alongside vital ecological processes in terrestrial ecosystems.
Arce, AN +26 more
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Genetic variation at hair length candidate genes in elephants and the extinct woolly mammoth [PDF]
Background Like humans, the living elephants are unusual among mammals in being sparsely covered with hair. Relative to extant elephants, the extinct woolly mammoth, Mammuthus primigenius, had a dense hair cover and extremely long hair, which likely were
Alex D Greenwood +9 more
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The complete mitochondrial genome of the Angolan dentex Dentex angolensis (Perciformes: Sparidae)
The complete mitochondrial genome of the Angolan dentex (Dentex angolensis, Poll and Maul, 1953) is 16.581 bp in length and contains 13 protein-coding genes, 22 transfer RNA genes, and 2 ribosomal RNA genes. The overall base composition of D.
Celestina Mascolo +6 more
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Mitochondrial Genome Diversity in Collembola: Phylogeny, Dating and Gene Order
Collembola (springtails) are an early diverging class of apterygotes, and mark the first substantial radiation of hexapods on land. Despite extensive work, the relationships between major collembolan lineages are still debated and, apart from the Early ...
Chiara Leo +4 more
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Cardiocondyla obscurior is native to Southeast Asia but has become successfully established throughout the tropics and subtropics. Here, its mitochondrial genome was assembled from Illumina sequencing data.
Li Liu +7 more
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Wētā Aotearoa—Polyphyly of the New Zealand Anostostomatidae (Insecta: Orthoptera)
The Anostostomatidae of Aotearoa New Zealand are well-characterized at the genus and species level, but the higher-level systematics of the family as a whole remain poorly resolved.
Steven A. Trewick +2 more
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Chromosome localization of microsatellite markers in the shrews of the Sorex araneus group [PDF]
The extremely high rate of karyotypic evolution that characterizes the shrews of the Sorex araneus group makes this group an exceptionally interesting model for population genetics and evolutionary studies.
Balmus, Gabriel +8 more
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Next generation sequencing and comparative analyses of Xenopusmitogenomes [PDF]
Foster, P. +3 more
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