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The labour market trade-offs of pet ownership

Economics and Business Letters, 2023
Pets are an important part of many peoples’ lives, and provide mental, physical and emotional benefits. However, the costs of pet ownership have received little attention. We investigate the association between pet ownership and wage income using data from the 2018 General Social Survey. We hypothesise that pet ownership may negatively influence income
Robbie Maris, Michael P. Cameron
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Silent Invaders : Biodiversity at Risk, Social Media findings into Exotic Pet Trade in Tamil Nadu and Invasion Modeling of Iguana iguana (Linnaeus, 1758)

Acta Zoológica Lilloana
This study investigates the exotic pet trade in Tamil Nadu by analyzing YouTube videos, which revealed the presence of 148 pet species being sold in pet shops. Among these, 12 species were classified as Endangered, 15 as Vulnerable, 3 as Near Threatened,
Rishi Kesavan, Anbazhagan Abinesh, Moorthi Saran, Elangovan Vignesh, Arunkumar Shree, Mohammed Shahir, Edward Phillmon Smart, Nizamudheen Moinudheen, Arockianathan Samson, Sadiq Ali   +9 more
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Why Have a Pet Amphibian? Insights From YouTube

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2019
The desire to own a pet amphibian is growing, and with it a growth in amphibian trade and in negative impacts on native populations, including disease transmission and invasive amphibian populations.
John Measey, Annie Basson, Alexander D. Rebelo, Ana L. Nunes, Ana L. Nunes, Giovanni Vimercati, Marike Louw, Nitya Prakash Mohanty   +7 more
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Endoparasites of lizards (Lacertilia) from captive breeding and trade networks

Helminthologia, 2015
Parasitic infections are widespread among exotic lizards and cause serious problems in both private captive breeding and trade networks. Among 168 lizards obtained from captive breeding (Zoological Garden in Wrocław and private owners) and trade (pet ...
Okulewicz A., Kaźmierczak M., Hildebrand J., Adamczyk M.   +3 more
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Engineering peptides into antibodies—opportunities and strategies for therapeutic innovation

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Peptides and antibodies occupy complementary therapeutic niches. Peptides recognize difficult targets in a compact format, while antibodies add specificity, long half‐life, and effector functions. This review examines strategies that merge both modalities—peptide grafting into loops, terminal and Fc fusions, and bioconjugation—highlighting how ...
Jinling Wang, Ruslana Romaniuk, Hristo L. Svilenov   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Synergistic perspectives—How single‐molecule biophysics complement biochemical understanding

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
In this review, we discuss how ensemble biochemistry and single‐molecule approaches are complementary, outline commonly used single‐molecule techniques, and illustrate their relevance through two representative case studies: chromatin organization by SMC complexes and pathway choice during DNA double‐strand break repair.
Sara De Bragança, Eline L. Jansen, Jorine M. Eeftens   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Microbe transmission from pet shop to lab-reared zebrafish reveals a pathogenic birnavirus.

PLoS Biology
Zebrafish are popular research organisms selected for laboratory use due in part to widespread availability from the pet trade. Many contemporary colonies of laboratory zebrafish are maintained in aquaculture facilities that monitor and aim to curb ...
Marlen C Rice, Andrew J Janik, Nels C Elde, James A Gagnon, Keir M Balla   +4 more
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Marine ornamental trade in Indonesia

Aquatic Living Resources, 2020
Trade with marine species as ornamentals is an important sector of the international pet trade. The vast majority of these species are collected from the wild and one of the top supplying countries is Indonesia.
Akmal Surya G., Zámečníková-Wanma Brigitta P.D., Prabowo Romanus E., Khatami Aulia M., Novák Jindřich, Petrtýl Miloslav, Kalous Lukáš, Patoka Jiří   +7 more
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From junk to function — How weak selection in eukaryotes builds new parts and drives genomic complexity

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
How do genomes gain new functional parts? In eukaryotes, which tend to evolve under weak selection, much of the genome is junk. Palazzo and Qiu borrow the logic of Markov chains to show how non‐functional DNA becomes functional through the appearance of intermediate states, which arise due to epistasis, buffering, and biochemical messiness, allowing ...
Alexander F. Palazzo, Yi Qiu
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Implications for Conservation of Collection of Mediterranean Spur-Thighed Tortoise as Pets in Morocco: Residents’ Perceptions, Habits, and Knowledge

Animals, 2020
The trading and collection of wild animals as pets may be cause for concern regarding animal welfare and species conservation. These concerns can be exemplified by Mediterranean spur-thighed tortoise (Testudo graeca), a long-living species whose use as ...
Amalia Segura, Miguel Delibes-Mateos, Pelayo Acevedo   +2 more
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