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Time outdoors and the prevention of myopia [PDF]

, 2015
Recent epidemiological evidence suggests that children who spend more time outdoors are less likely to be, or to become myopic, irrespective of how much near work they do, or whether their parents are myopic.
Ashby, Regan S., French, Amanda N., Morgan, Ian G., Rose, Kathryn A.   +3 more
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Placental crises: disruptive selection and maternal under‐investment as the foundations of mammalian placental evolution and dysfunction

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Among the vertebrates, mammals are notable for the dominance of live birth and placental nutrition. The structural diversity of the mammalian placenta is remarkable, despite sharing a single common ancestor and conserved physiological functions.
Davis Laundon, Neil J. Gostling, Ian G. Reddin, Bram G. Sengers, Pascale Chavatte‐Palmer, Rohan M. Lewis   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Divergent Hantavirus in Somali Shrews (Crocidura somalica) in the Semi-Arid North Rift, Kenya

Pathogens, 2023
Hantaviruses are zoonotic rodent-borne viruses that are known to infect humans and cause various symptoms of disease, including hemorrhagic fever with renal and cardiopulmonary syndromes.
Dorcus C. A. Omoga, David P. Tchouassi, Marietjie Venter, Edwin O. Ogola, Gilbert Rotich, Joseph N. Muthoni, Dickens O. Ondifu, Baldwyn Torto, Sandra Junglen, Rosemary Sang   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

Individual strategies of aggressive and non-aggressive male mice in encounters with trained aggressive residents [PDF]

, 1992
To determine whether individual differences in offensive behaviour are related to differences in defensive behaviour, the responses of male wild house mice, Mus domesticus, of an aggressive and a non-aggressive line to defeat by physically stronger ...
Benus, Rensina F.,, Koolhaas, Jaap M.,, Oortmerssen, Geert A. van,   +2 more
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Wild meat consumption in changing rural landscapes of Indonesian Borneo

People and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Wild meat can play a crucial role in the food system of rural communities residing near tropical forests. Yet, socio‐ecological changes across tropical landscapes are impacting the patterns and sustainability of meat consumption. To understand the prevalence, frequency and drivers of wild meat, domestic meat and fish consumption in this ...
Katie L. Spencer, Daniel J. Ingram, Namrata B. Anirudh, Ardiantiono, Susan M. Cheyne, Leejiah J. Dorward, Abdul Kadir, Michaela G. Y. Lo, Courtney L. Morgans, Jatna Supriatna, Nurul L. Winarni, Freya A. V. St. John, Matthew J. Struebig   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

Viruses Identified in Shrews (Soricidae) and Their Biomedical Significance

Viruses
Shrews (Soricidae) are common small wild mammals. Some species of shrews, such as Asian house shrews (Suncus murinus), have a significant overlap in their habitats with humans and domestic animals.
Huan-Yu Gong, Rui-Xu Chen, Su-Mei Tan, Xiu Wang, Ji-Ming Chen, Yuan-Long Zhang, Ming Liao   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

The prevalence and genomic characteristics of hepatitis E virus in murine rodents and house shrews from several regions in China

BMC Veterinary Research, 2018
Background Urban rodents and house shrews are closely correlated in terms of location with humans and can transmit many pathogens to them. Hepatitis E has been confirmed to be a zoonotic disease.
Wenqiao He, Yuqi Wen, Yiquan Xiong, Minyi Zhang, Mingji Cheng, Qing Chen   +5 more
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Is Shrub Encroachment Driving the Decline of Small Mammal Diversity in Pyrenean Grasslands? A Preliminary Study

Diversity, 2023
The Pyrenean highlands hold the southernmost populations of some endemic and rare arvicoline species associated with grasslands. This area, as well as many other areas in the Mediterranean basin, has suffered from land abandonment due to socio-economic ...
Ignasi Torre, Oriol Palau
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Uppermost Pleistocene shrews (Mammalia, Soricidae) from Vaskapu Cave (N-Hungary) [PDF]

, 1999
Three shrew species (Sorex araneus LINNAEUS1758, Sorex minutus LlNNAEUS1766 and Sorex alpinus SHINZ1837) were found in the fossiliferous sediments of Vaskapu Cave, near Felsötárkány.
Mészáros, L. Gy.
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Vertebrate Natural History Notes from Arkansas, 2017 [PDF]

, 2017
Because meaningful observations of natural history are not always part of larger studies, important pieces of information often are unreported. Small details, however, can fills gaps in understanding and also lead to interesting questions about ...
Buckley, M., Bursey, C. R, Cloutman, D. G, Connior, M. B, Durden, L. A, Fayton, T. J, McAllister, C. T, Robison, H. W, Sasse, D. B, Schratz, S., Tumlison, R.   +10 more
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