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Flight of the dragons: a global review of migration in Odonata

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Insects are the most abundant and ecologically important animal migrants. Yet, we know relatively little about the patterns and processes underlying insect migration. Dragonflies (Anisoptera) and damselflies (Zygoptera) comprise the ancient insect order Odonata, whose ancestors were the first organisms to fly on Earth.
Johanna S.U. Hedlund, Myles Menz, Jason W. Chapman, Alexander Hayward   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The phonetics of PIE *d, II: the evidence from daughter languages

Linguistica Brunensia, 2022
In numerous IE languages, either their synchronic fact or the diachronic processes reveal some level of asymmetry in the area of coronal obstruents, specifically the stops and the nasal, or their reflexes resulting from various phonetic processes as ...
Jan Bičovský
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Review of the fauna associated with wild and farmed mussels and oysters in the Mediterranean

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Mussels and oysters are important ecosystem engineers which modify the physical and chemical characteristics of the environment and create habitats that support highly diverse associated communities. In the Mediterranean Sea, the native Mediterranean mussel Mytilus galloprovincialis and the European flat oyster Ostrea edulis, together the ...
Barbara Mikac, Marina Antonia Colangelo, Alessandro Tarullo, Marco Abbiati, Eugenio Fossi, Federica Costantini   +5 more
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Strategies for Identification and Mitigation of Sanguinarine in Mustard Oil Adulterated by Argemone—A Comprehensive Review

Food Chemistry International, EarlyView.
Sanguinarine, a toxic alkaloid present in argemone, can lead to epidemic dropsy or chronic diseases through DNA intercalation and immune system suppression. Regulatory efforts face challenges due to economic motivations for adulteration as well as technical, social, and infrastructure barriers.
Gururaj Pejavara Narayana, Subhangi Panigrahi, Suresh Kumar Kalakandan, Hema Vincent, Ashish Rawson   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Anatolian languages and Proto-Indo-European

Veleia, 2016
En el presente artículo se ofrece un estado de la cuestión sobre la posición del grupo anatolio (hitita, luvita, palaíta, licio, milio, lidio, cario, pisidio y sidético) en el seno de las lenguas indoeuropeas. Se someten a evaluación las dos grandes corrientes de opinión que han intentado dar cuenta de las fuertes divergencias entre las lenguas ...
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The Archaeology of Proto-Indo-European and Proto-Anatolian: Locating the Split

, 2019
The 4th millennium BC stands out as a period of increasing interaction between the Caucasus, Anatolia, the Levant and Greece, stimulated by movements of groups of people at land and sea, including the Black Sea coast (Bauer 2011), which had both genetic (
Kristiansen, Kristian,
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Speciation with gene flow

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Biodiversity is threatened by human activities, with extinction debt accumulating rapidly. Many of these activities change the connectivity of populations, fragmenting existing population systems or bringing previously isolated populations or species into contact.
Zhiqin Long, Xu Zhang, Yue Yu, Gregory L. Owens, Diana J. Rennison, Clarisse Palma‐Silva, Daniel Ortiz‐Barrientos, Loren H. Rieseberg   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Indo-European Roots of the Helen of Troy

Studia Ceranea, 2018
As a part of the series on female deities and demons in the Indo-European culture, the article begins by establishing Helen’s divine character in the Greek tradition and religion.
Maciej Jaszczyński
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Origin of the words denoting some of the most ancient old world pulse crops and their diversity in modern European languages. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2012
This preliminary research was aimed at finding the roots in various Eurasian proto-languages directly related to pulses and giving the words denoting the same in modern European languages. Six Proto-Indo-European roots were indentified, namely arnk(')- ('
Aleksandar Mikić
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GLOTTALIC CONSONANTS IN SINDHI AND PROTO-INDO-EUROPEAN

Indo-Iranian Journal, 1981
., 1, 'g in this article, s There is no dental implosive stop. The phonemic status of the implosives is beyond doubt, cf. bakhU 'sacrifice of a goat', 'bakhU 'embrace', d. it.hO 'bold', 'd.i.thO 'seen',/a~/ ' r" r' 'barley', ~a~ 'lac', gacU mo ra , 'gacU 'much' 6 The topic of this article is their historical origin. 3. As Turner points out, "a detailed
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