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Galliformes science and species extinctions: what we know and what we need to know

Animal Biodiversity and Conservation, 2012
Extinciones de especies de Galliformes y conocimientos científicos: lo que sabemos y lo que necesitamos saber A principios de 2010, las 193 partes que habían firmado el Convenio sobre la Diversidad Biológica reconocieron que no habían cumplido el ...
P. J. K. McGowan, L. L. Owens, M. J. Grainger   +2 more
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Organic Matter in the Asteroid Ryugu: What We Know So Far

Life, 2023
The Hayabusa2 mission was tasked with returning samples from the C-complex asteroid Ryugu (1999 JU3), in order to shed light on the formation, evolution and composition of such asteroids.
Christian Potiszil, Masahiro Yamanaka, Chie Sakaguchi, Tsutomu Ota, Hiroshi Kitagawa, Tak Kunihiro, Ryoji Tanaka, Katsura Kobayashi, Eizo Nakamura   +8 more
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An investigation of the internal morphology of asbestos ferruginous bodies: constraining their role in the onset of malignant mesothelioma

Particle and Fibre Toxicology, 2023
Background Asbestos is a fibrous mineral that was widely used in the past. However, asbestos inhalation is associated with an aggressive type of cancer known as malignant mesothelioma (MM).
Maya-Liliana Avramescu, Christian Potiszil, Tak Kunihiro, Kazunori Okabe, Eizo Nakamura   +4 more
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Insights into the formation and evolution of extraterrestrial amino acids from the asteroid Ryugu

Nature Communications, 2023
Amino acid concentrations from 2 particles returned from different touchdown sites on the surface of Ryugu are reported. Differences in chemistry suggest different levels of aqueous alteration are recorded at the 2 sampled locations.
Christian Potiszil, Tsutomu Ota, Masahiro Yamanaka, Chie Sakaguchi, Katsura Kobayashi, Ryoji Tanaka, Tak Kunihiro, Hiroshi Kitagawa, Masanao Abe, Akiko Miyazaki, Aiko Nakato, Satoru Nakazawa, Masahiro Nishimura, Tatsuaki Okada, Takanao Saiki, Satoshi Tanaka, Fuyuto Terui, Yuichi Tsuda, Tomohiro Usui, Sei-ichiro Watanabe, Toru Yada, Kasumi Yogata, Makoto Yoshikawa, Eizo Nakamura   +23 more
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Novel Polymorphisms and Genetic Characteristics of the Prion Protein Gene in Pheasants

Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 2022
Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs) also known as prion diseases, are fatal neurodegenerative diseases. Prion diseases are caused by abnormal prion protein (PrPSc) derived from normal prion protein (PrPC), which is encoded by the prion ...
Kyung Han Kim, Kyung Han Kim, Yong-Chan Kim, Yong-Chan Kim, Byung-Hoon Jeong, Byung-Hoon Jeong   +5 more
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Comparative Habitat Divergence and Fragmentation Analysis of Two Sympatric Pheasants in the Qilian Mountains, China

Land, 2022
Habitat fragmentation is considered a major threat to biodiversity worldwide. Two endangered species, the blood pheasant (Ithaginis cruentus) and the blue eared pheasant (Crossoptilon auritum), co-exist in a fragmented forest in the Qilian Mountains ...
Wen-Dong Xie, Jia Jia, Kai Song, Chang-Li Bu, Li-Ming Ma, Ge-Sang Wang-Jie, Quan-Liang Li, Heng-Qing Yin, Feng-Yi Xu, Dui-Fang Ma, Xin-Hai Li, Yun Fang, Yue-Hua Sun   +12 more
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Origin of ocean island basalts in the West African passive margin without mantle plume involvement

Nature Communications, 2019
The genesis of hotspot magmatism remains controversial especially at continental margins such as offshore West Africa. Here, by analysing trace element and Pb isotopes of intraplate basalts, the authors conclude that their generation was caused by the ...
Iyasu Getachew Belay, Ryoji Tanaka, Hiroshi Kitagawa, Katsura Kobayashi, Eizo Nakamura   +4 more
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Physiological, Haematological And Production Characteristics Of Pheasants In Different Rearing Conditions

Contemporary Agriculture, 2023
This paper presents a physiological, hematological, and biochemical study of the impact of different rearing conditions on pheasant production outcomes and mortality rates in both the pheasant parent flock and pheasant chicks up to 6 weeks old.
Davidović Vesna, Popović Zoran, Lavadinović Vukan   +2 more
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The Pheasant’s Call and the Sound of Sympathy

Japanese Language and Literature, 2022
This article examines how literati poet-painter Yosa Buson (1716-1783) composed an elegy that transforms the conventional trope of the pheasant as a figure for representing grief and grieving and Confucian moral and social values.
Matthew Mewhinney
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The draft genome of the blood pheasant (Ithaginis cruentus): Phylogeny and high‐altitude adaptation

Ecology and Evolution, 2020
The blood pheasant (Ithaginis cruentus), the only species in the genus Ithaginis, lives in an extremely inhospitable high‐altitude environment, coping with hypoxia and ultraviolet (UV) radiation.
Chuang Zhou, Yi Liu, Lu Qiao, Yang Liu, Nan Yang, Yang Meng, Bisong Yue   +6 more
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