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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 +2 more
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The effect of rearing system and cooking method on the carnosine and anserine content of poultry and game meat [PDF]
, 2018 Poultry meat has been shown to be a rich source of carnosine and anserine (CRC) but little is known of the effects of bird species and the system under which it is reared have on the concentrations of CRC. Retail samples of breast meat from conventional
Juniper, Darren, Rymer, Caroline
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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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Some chemical and physical characteristics of farmed pheasant hens (Phasianus cholchicus) breast meat [PDF]
, 2017 Ring necked pheasant is the most significant game bird in Hungary. Around 300.000 pheasant harvested (hunted) annually and generally these birds are consumed by the hunters.
Ancsin, Zsolt +4 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 +4 more
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Don't break a leg: Running birds from quail to ostrich prioritise leg safety and economy in uneven terrain [PDF]
, 2009 Cursorial ground birds are paragons of bipedal running that span a 500-fold mass range from quail to ostrich. Here we investigate the task-level control priorities of cursorial birds by analysing how they negotiate single-step obstacles that create a ...
Birn-Jeffery, A V +6 more
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Functional and phylogenetic structures of pheasants in China
Avian Research, 2022 Biodiversity has been subjected to increasing anthropogenic pressures. It is critical to understand the different processes that govern community assembly and species coexistence under biogeographic processes and anthropogenic events.
Hongyan Yao +6 more
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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 +6 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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bioRxiv, 2019 The common pheasant (Phasianus colchicus) in the order Galliformes and the family Phasianidae, has 30 subspecies distributed across its native range in the Palearctic realm and has been introduced to Europe, North America, and Australia.
Yang Liu +8 more
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