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Humans, geometric similarity and the Froude number: is ''reasonably close'' really close enough? [PDF]
, 2012 Summary Understanding locomotor energetics is imperative, because energy expended during locomotion, a requisite feature of primate subsistence, is lost to reproduction.
Kramer, P.A., Sylvester, A.D.
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Sexing in guinea fowls (Numida meleagris)
Poultry Science, 2015 Despite the potentials and contributions of guinea fowls to economic and social life in Ghana, accurate sex identification in these birds is still a major problem. Three hundred and sixty guinea fowls (180 birds per sex) were used in determining a more accurate and farmer friendly sexing technique.
Iddriss I, Abdul-Rahman +4 more
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Influência do dimorfismo sexual sobre a morfologia da siringe de galinha d'angola (Numida meleagris) [PDF]
Ciência Rural, 2006 Este estudo teve como objetivo realizar uma descrição morfológica e comparativa da siringe, órgão responsável pelo canto das aves, na espécie Numida meleagris. Para isso foram utilizados cinco machos e cinco fêmeas de galinha d'angola, a fim de verificar
Flávia Bottino +6 more
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Foods, 2020 Poultry meat is consumed worldwide and is prone to food fraud because of large price differences among meat from different poultry species. Precise and sensitive analytical methods are necessary to control poultry meat products. We chose species–specific
Kerstin Dolch +2 more
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Waves of genomic hitchhikers shed light on the evolution of gamebirds (Aves: Galliformes) : research article [PDF]
, 2007 Background The phylogenetic tree of Galliformes (gamebirds, including megapodes, currassows, guinea fowl, New and Old World quails, chicken, pheasants, grouse, and turkeys) has been considerably remodeled over the last decades as new data and analytical ...
Kriegs, Jan Ole +6 more
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A check list of the helminths of guineafowls (Numididae) and a host list of these parasites
Onderstepoort Journal of Veterinary Research, 2007 Published and personal records have been compiled into a reference list of the helminth parasites of guineafowls. Where data on other avian hosts was available these have been included for completeness' sake and to give an indication of host range ...
K. Junker, J. Boomker
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The fast and forceful kicking strike of the secretary bird [PDF]
, 2016 The study of animal locomotion has uncovered principles that can be applied to bio-inspired robotics, prosthetics and rehabilitation medicine, while also providing insight into musculoskeletal form and function [1, 2, 3, 4].
Biewener +13 more
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Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Biomedicine, 2015 Objective: To determine the gastrointestinal tract helminthic fauna in domestic and wild guineafowl in Zambia. Methods: Post-mortem and laboratory parasitological examinations for helminth identification and enumeration were conducted on 198 guineafowls (
King Shimumbo Nalubamba +5 more
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An outbreak of fatal Pullorum disease (Salmonella Pullorum) in Guinea fowl keets (Numida meleagris)
Pesquisa Veterinária Brasileira, 2023 : Pullorum disease is described worldwide and is caused by Salmonella enterica subspecies enterica serovar Gallinarum biovar Pullorum (S. Pullorum). S.
Priscila N. Pinto +7 more
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Positive selection underlies Faster-Z evolution of gene expression in birds. [PDF]
, 2015 The elevated rate of evolution for genes on sex chromosomes compared to autosomes (Fast-X or Fast-Z evolution) can result either from positive selection in the heterogametic sex, or from non-adaptive consequences of reduced relative effective population ...
Dean, R +4 more
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