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The Curse of the Nine-Banded Armadillo: Case Report and Review [PDF]
Military Medicine, 2015 Hansen's disease (leprosy) is an ancient condition characterized by hypopigmented patches that progress to become plaques with hypoesthesia. Several case reports suggest that armadillos may be a source of Mycobacterium leprae for clinical cases, and contact with armadillos has been shown to be a significant risk factor in several case-control studies ...
Galal, Elsayed +5 more
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Wildlife Biology, EarlyView.With urbanization reducing the amount of available wildlife habitat, and outdoor recreation increasing the human activity within wildlife habitats, it is important to understand the effects of human activity on animal behavior. This study examined how the reduction in human presence in urban parks in Gainesville, Florida, affected the temporal ...
Maya Fives, Matthew Hallett
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Nine-banded Armadillo (Dasypus novemcinctus) in Spartanburg County, South Carolina [PDF]
, 2018 The distribution range of the nine-banded armadillo (Dasypus novemcinctus) has been expanding northward across the eastern and central United States over the past several decades.
Storm, Jonathan J
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, 1910 THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE NINE-BANDED ARMADILLO FROM THE PRIMITIVE STREAK STAGE TO BIRTH; WITH ESPECIAL REFERENCE TO THE QUESTION OF SPECIFIC POLYEMBRYONY The Development of the Nine-banded Armadillo from the Primitive Streak Stage To Birth; With Especial ...
Newman, H. H. Patterson
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Frontiers in Immunology, 2018 1–5% of human blood T cells are Vγ9Vδ2 T cells whose T cell receptor (TCR) contain a TRGV9/TRGJP rearrangement and a TRDV2 comprising Vδ2-chain. They respond to phosphoantigens (PAgs) like isopentenyl pyrophosphate or (E)-4-hydroxy-3-methyl-but-2-enyl ...
Alina Suzann Fichtner +4 more
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Wildlife Biology, EarlyView.Daily activity budgets reflect how animals balance internal physiological demands with external environmental pressures. We analyzed 14 037 camera‐trap records from 12 mammal species in the Venezuelan Llanos to evaluate the effects of foraging strategy (faunivore versus herbivore), season, and body mass on daily activity duration, to describe diel ...
Ilad Vivas +10 more
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Beyond the carapace: skull shape variation and morphological systematics of long-nosed armadillos (genus Dasypus) [PDF]
PeerJ, 2017 Background The systematics of long-nosed armadillos (genus Dasypus) has been mainly based on a handful of external morphological characters and classical measurements.
Lionel Hautier +3 more
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The status quo is imperiled: Acknowledging the issue of range‐shifting wildlife species
Wildlife Society Bulletin, EarlyView.Rapid climate and land‐use change are reshaping wildlife distributions, forcing managers to confront difficult decisions that challenge the traditional “status quo” approach. Range contractions of snow‐dependent species such as the snowshoe hare (Lepus americanus; left photo) may increasingly require practitioners to recognize and plan for unavoidable ...
Brett A. DeGregorio, Leigh Anne Harden
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Journal of Animal Ecology, EarlyView.This novel study examines how environmental and human‐related gradients influence habitat use and the community structure of medium and large terrestrial mammals in Central Amazonian white‐sand forests (campinaranas), one of the naturally rarest and least studied ecosystems in the Amazon region.
Renilce Carvalho de Castro +8 more
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Frontiers in Medicine, 2022 Mycobacterium leprae infection of peripheral nerves and the subsequent nerve function impairment (NFI), especially in response to reactional episodes, are hallmarks of leprosy. Improved treatments for M. leprae-induced nerve injury are needed, as most if
Maria Teresa Pena +6 more
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