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Hybridization drives genetic erosion in sympatric desert fishes of western North America [PDF]

Heredity, 2019
AbstractMany species have evolved or currently coexist in sympatry due to differential adaptation in a heterogeneous environment. However, anthropogenic habitat modifications can either disrupt reproductive barriers or obscure environmental conditions which underlie fitness gradients.
Chafin, Tyler K., Douglas, Marlis R., Martin, Bradley T., Douglas, Michael E.   +3 more
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Geochemical and biomarker characteristics of crude oils and source rock hydrocarbon extracts: An implication to their correlation, depositional environment and maturation in the Northern Western Desert, Egypt

Egyptian Journal of Petroleum, 2016
Oil–oil and oil–source rock correlations are used in this study in order to achieve their relationship, depositional environments and diagenetic processes in the source rocks.
Mohamed M. El Nady, Naglaa S. Mohamed, Lobna M. Sharaf   +2 more
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Plant life at the dry limit-Spatial patterns of floristic diversity and composition around the hyperarid core of the Atacama Desert.

PLoS ONE, 2020
Extreme arid conditions in the Atacama Desert in northern Chile have created a unique vegetation almost entirely restricted to the desert margins along the coast of the Pacific Ocean and the Andean range.
Jonathan Ruhm, Tim Böhnert, Maximilian Weigend, Felix F Merklinger, Alexandra Stoll, Dietmar Quandt, Federico Luebert   +6 more
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Taxonomic revision of the mydas-fly genera Eremohaplomydas Bequaert, 1959, Haplomydas Bezzi, 1924, and Lachnocorynus Hesse, 1969 (Insecta, Diptera, Mydidae) [PDF]

African Invertebrates, 2022
The genera Eremohaplomydas Bequaert, 1959, Haplomydas Bezzi, 1924, and Lachnocorynus Hesse, 1969 (Diptera: Mydidae: Syllegomydinae) are revised. Currently, four species are known from southern Africa, i.e., Eremohaplomydas desertorum Bequaert, 1959 from ...
Claire Boschert, Torsten Dikow
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Book review, From Lake to Sand — The Archaeology of Farafra Oasis, Western Desert, Egypt, edited by Barbara E. Barich, Giulio Lucarini, Mohamed A. Hamdan and Fekri A. Hassan. Sapienza University of Rome, Dipartimento di Scienze dell’Antichità; Ministry of Antiquities, Egypt; Firenze, All’Insegna del Giglio, 2014, 503 pp., ISBN 978-88-7814-520-7.

Cartagine. Studi e Ricerche, 2018
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Savino di Lernia
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Showcasing Emptiness? Voicing Redemption Through ‘Saharomania’ in the French Literary Imaginary

Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens, 2021
The Napoleonic campaigns paved the way for French metropolitan travellers, military officers and literary authors to roam the barren stretches of North African deserts. Initially, imperial expansion was what brought French explorers to these lands.
Amina Zarzi
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Middle–Upper Jurassic palynology of the South Sallum well, North Western Desert, Egypt

Egyptian Journal of Petroleum, 2018
Palynological analyses have been carried out on some samples of Middle–Upper Jurassic from the South Sallum well, North Western Desert, Egypt. A refinement of the original chronostratigraphy has been suggested and the stages of Bathonian – Callovian and ...
Tarek F. Mostafa, Maher I. El Soughier, Walid A. Makled   +2 more
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Ecological desert settlement Egypt western desert

Alexandria Engineering Journal, 2019
• The Western Desert covers 700,000 km2 and occupies about two-thirds of Egypt's land area. It spans from the Mediterranean Sea from north to the Sudanese border at south and from the Nile River east to the Libyan border west. • The population density of
Mohamed Mounir Khalifa, Mohamed Ibrahim Abdelall   +1 more
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The complete chloroplast genome of Caroxylon passerinum (Chenopodiaceae), an annual desert plant

Mitochondrial DNA. Part B. Resources, 2022
Caroxylon passerinum is an important constructive species, which is widely distributed in both desert and desert steppe in north-western China. C. passerinum is one of hosts of holoparasitic Cistanche species.
Wei Xie, Chi Zhang, Yuguo Wang, Yunfei Zhang   +3 more
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Community‐acquired pneumonia in the central desert and north‐western tropics of Australia [PDF]

Internal Medicine Journal, 2010
AbstractBackground:Community‐acquired pneumonia (CAP) results in significant morbidity in central and north‐western Australia. However, the nature, management and outcome of CAP are poorly documented. The aim of the study was to describe CAP in the Kimberley and Central Desert regions of Australia.Methods:Prospective and retrospective cohort studies of
Remond, M.G.W, Ralph, Anna, Brady, S.J, Martin, J, Tikoft, E, Maguire, Graeme   +5 more
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