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Habitat influences skeletal morphology and density in the snailfishes (family Liparidae)
Frontiers in Zoology, 2021 We tested the hypothesis that deep-sea fishes have poorly mineralized bone relative to shallower-dwelling species using data from a single family that spans a large depth range.
M. E. Gerringer +5 more
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Terry L. Erwin and the race to document biodiversity (1940–2020) [PDF]
ZooKeys, 2021 Terry Erwin’s race to document arthropod diversity inspired taxonomists, systematists, ecologists, evolutionary biologists, and the conservation community at large, as his curatorial work of more than 50 years at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of ...
Grace P. Servat
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Nineteenth Century US BMIs by Race: Socioeconomics and Biology [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2012 Little research exists on late 19th and early 20th century US body mass index value differences by race, and darker complexions were associated with greater BMI values. Mulattos had greater BMI returns associated with socioeconomic characteristics, indicating that while blacks had greater BMIs than fairer complexioned whites and mulattos, part of the ...
Scott Alan Carson
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Exploration of the relationship between ACLY and esophageal cancer based on bioinformatics and related experiments [PDF]
Yixue xinzhi zazhi, 2023 Objective This study focuses on ATP citrate lyase (ACLY), takes esophageal cancer cells and online databases as the main research subjects, and further explores the expression of ACLY in esophageal cancer cells and its effects on cell growth and ...
Meng WANG, Yang-Yang ZHANG, Jing LIU
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Race Disparities in Wilms Tumor Incidence and Biology [PDF]
Journal of Surgical Research, 2011 Wilms tumor (WT) is thought to arise in children of Black African ancestry with greater frequency than in Whites. To clarify the biological basis for race disparities in WT, we first verified that Black children residing in Tennessee have an increased incidence of WT, and second, established molecular profiles in WT that are specific to race.To assess ...
Jason Axt +8 more
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Effects of socioeconomic status and race on survival and treatment in metastatic breast cancer
npj Breast Cancer, 2023 Race and socioeconomic factors affect outcomes in breast cancer. We aimed to assess the effect of race and neighborhood socioeconomic status (SES) on overall survival and treatment patterns in patients with metastatic breast cancer (MBC).
Susrutha Puthanmadhom Narayanan +5 more
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Race Disparities in the COVID-19 Pandemic-Solutions Lie in Policy, Not Biology.
JAMA Network Open, 2020 Soon after severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) was recognized in the United States in early 2020, troubling patterns emerged, revealing that US Black and Hispanic residents were experiencing several-fold greater incidence of ...
L. Boulware
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Evolutionary Biology: Arms Races in the Eye of the Beholder [PDF]
Current Biology, 2008 Perceptual models of the avian visual system accurately predict the egg-rejection ability of species subject to the costly trickery of cuckoos and other brood parasites.
Maren N. Vitousek +2 more
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Perspectives: race and advertising: conceptualizing a way forward through aesthetics
International Journal of Advertising, 2023 As brands and advertisers worldwide are claiming to be reviewing the ways they represent race, this conceptual piece provides a call to action for international advertising researchers to also reassess how they engage and analyze race.
Kevin D. Thomas +2 more
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Treating ‘collective biologies’ through men’s HPV research in Mexico
Medicine Anthropology Theory, 2019 Medical testing assesses individual bodies, yet its effects reach beyond their boundaries. Building on insights from medical anthropology and STS regarding the co-construction of medical technologies and bodies, I investigate how heterosexual Mexican ...
Emily Wentzell
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