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Obesity and the Politics of Taddeo di Bartolo's Inferno

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines Taddeo di Bartolo's depiction of Hell in the Collegiata di Santa Maria Assunta, the mother church of San Gimignano. In a striking departure from similar scenes of the period, the fresco, painted in the early fifteenth century, emphasizes the obesity of the sinners—suggesting a deliberate visual critique.
Stefania Roccas Gandal
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Combined effect of ambient temperature and solar radiation on maned sloths' behaviour and detectability

, 2023
Changes in ambient temperature and solar radiation may affect sloths' metabolic rate and body temperature, with consequent changes in activities, postures and microhabitat selection.
Giné, Gastón Andrés Fernandez, Cassano, Camila Righetto, Miranda, Flavia Regina, Gastón Andrés Fernandez Giné, Gabriel S. Lopes, Ariovaldo P. Cruz‐Neto, Laila Santim Mureb, Camila Righetto Cassano, Cruz-Neto, Ariovaldo P. [UNESP], Flavia Regina Miranda, Lopes, Gabriel S., Mureb, Laila Santim   +11 more
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Cross-order host switches of hepatitis C-related viruses illustrated by a novel hepacivirus from sloths. [PDF]

, 2020
The genealogy of the hepatitis C virus (HCV) and the genus Hepacivirus remains elusive despite numerous recently discovered animal hepaciviruses (HVs). Viruses from evolutionarily ancient mammals might elucidate the HV macro-evolutionary patterns.
Rasche, Andrea, Moreira-Soto, Andres, Arroyo-Murillo, Francisco, Wieseke, Nicolas, Drexler, Jan Felix, Corrales-Aguilar, Eugenia, Avey-Arroyo, Judy, Corman, Victor, Sander, Anna-Lena, Tegtmeyer, Birthe, Steinmann, Eike   +10 more
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Sloths of the Atlantic Forest in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries

Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências, 2016
Sloths were a curiosity item for Europeans in the 16th and 17th centuries, and several descriptions of them exist in bestiaries and texts of that time. Here, we assemble the descriptions and drawings of sloths from the travellers and naturalists of those
DANIELLE O. MOREIRA, SÉRGIO L. MENDES
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Automated Multienzyme Digestion Workflows for Confident Characterization of Challenging Posttranslational Modifications in Therapeutic Antibodies by LC–MS/MS

Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, Volume 40, Issue 21, 15 November 2026.
ABSTRACT Rationale Non‐reduced trypsin digestion of therapeutic antibodies can generate large disulfide‐linked peptide complexes that exhibit poor chromatographic and mass spectrometric performance. This limits the confident characterization of posttranslational modifications (PTMs) in specific antibody regions, such as the heavy‐chain constant region ...
Nanna Sofie Eskesen, Yann Leblanc, Justine Lempereur, Martin Ørgaard, Elizabeta Madzharova, Trine M. Sloth, Simon Krabbe, Alexandra K. Rebak, Magali André, Pernille F. Jensen, Dan B. Kristensen   +10 more
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Morphological variation in atlas and axis of Neotropical spiny rats (Rodentia, Echimyidae)

The Anatomical Record, Volume 309, Issue 10, Page 2873-2896, October 2026.
Abstract The unique morphologies of the first two cervical vertebrae, the atlas and axis, represent a significant innovation in mammalian evolution. These structures support the weight of the head and enable intricate movements of the head and neck.
Thomas Furtado da Silva Netto, João Felipe Leal Kaiuca, Adriana Itatí Olivares, William Corrêa Tavares   +3 more
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Implications of a Neotropical Origin of the Genus Leishmania

Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 1998
The hypothesis of a Neotropical origin of the Leishmania/Endotrypanum clade is reviewed. The position of the L. (Sauroleishmania) external to the subgenus L. (Leishmania) is not consistent with the Neotropical origin of the latter subgenus.
Noyes Harry
doaj  

Social behavior between mothers × young of sloths Bradypus variegatus SCHINZ, 1825 (Xenarthra: Bradypodidae)

Brazilian Journal of Biology
This study is a contribution to the ex situ and in situ conservation and preservation of Sloths. The behavioral records of the social interaction between mothers and offspring allow the detection of important learning interactions and psychomotor ...
C. A. SOARES, R. S. CARNEIRO
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Humans are not unique: difficult birth is common in placental mammals

Biological Reviews, Volume 101, Issue 5, Page 2214-2239, October 2026.
ABSTRACT Human childbirth is widely presumed to be uniquely difficult and dangerous compared to birth in other mammals. Tight fetopelvic proportions can result in obstructed labour and contribute to high rates of maternal and neonatal mortality. Ideas summarised under the ‘obstetrical dilemma’ have contributed to this assumption by explaining difficult
Nicole D. S. Grunstra
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Text-fig. 7. PGLS regressions for Mylodontidae, "Orophodontidae", and the rest of the sloths considered separately, Mylodontidae: dash double-dot line (-..-), "Orophodontidae": dash-dot line (-.-), rest of sloths: dash line (--). in Unexpected Inhibitory Cascade In The Molariforms Of Sloths (Folivora, Xenarthra): A Case Study In Xenarthrans Honouring Gerhard Storch'S Open-Mindedness

, 2020
Text-fig. 7. PGLS regressions for Mylodontidae, "Orophodontidae", and the rest of the sloths considered separately, Mylodontidae: dash double-dot line (-..-), "Orophodontidae": dash-dot line (-.-), rest of sloths: dash line (--).Published as part of ...
Tambusso, P. Sebastián, Varela, Luciano, Fariña, Richard A.   +2 more
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