An Overlooked Habitat‐Dependent Link Between Metabolism and Water Loss in Reptiles
Integrative Zoology, EarlyView.We measured the gas exchange of six lizard and six snake species, under high and low air humidity, and two intriguing patterns emerged. First, although desert species lose less water via evaporation than similar‐sized mesic species under similar conditions, water loss is virtually the same when each is exposed to its natural conditions.
Shahar Dubiner, Shai Meiri, Eran Levin
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Feature recess-time sports activities as a school-based intervention to improve fitness in rural Chinese youth. [PDF]
PLoS OneHuang XH, Huang XY, Rahman FA.
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Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 2014 Holmes, David R., Rihal, Charanjit S.
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Integrative Zoology, EarlyView.Soil drought imposes moderate, temporary costs on a strictly fossorial amphisbaenian reptile. However, these animals seem to cope with, at least, moderately short droughts thanks to their peculiar adaptations to living in an underground environment. ABSTRACT The physiological traits of animals can be strongly influenced by climatic fluctuations, and ...
José Martín +5 more
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Updated Chorotypes of Terrestrial Vertebrates Shed New Light on Zoogeographical Regions in China
Integrative Zoology, EarlyView.Chorotype represents a fundamental concept for identifying groups of species that share similar distribution patterns. However, the last comprehensive revision of animal chorotypes in China was performed more than a decade ago. Here, we update the chorotype classifications for 1040 species and propose an updated zoogeographical regionalization scheme ...
Baoming Zhang +6 more
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Venomics across the <i>Bothrops neuwiedi</i> Species Complex Revealed a P-III Snake Venom Metalloproteases/K49-PLA<sub>2</sub> Dichotomy and a Remarkable Paraspecific Neutralization of the Brazilian Pentabothropic Antivenom. [PDF]
J Proteome ResGalizio NDC +15 more
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‘I, Me, Myself’: Selfhood and Melancholy in the Journals of Gertrude Savile (1697–1758)
Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines the journals of Gertrude Savile from 1727 in light of recent scholarship on early modern and eighteenth‐century melancholy. The concept had myriad associations with medicine, physiology, the imagination, and feeling, but questions remain about how melancholy during this period was considered by those outside the narrow ...
Daniel Beaumont
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Complete genome sequence of <i>Sporosarcina</i> sp. GTC18466 isolated from a snake in Japan. [PDF]
Microbiol Resour AnnouncHayashi M +3 more
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Methods in Ecology and Evolution, EarlyView.Abstract Ecologists and evolutionary biologists are increasingly turning to 3D models to use in scientific research. Natural history museums are one of the primary sources for specimens used as 3D models, and efforts are underway to digitize their collections using methods like photogrammetry.
Jeremy D. Pustilnik, Genevieve S. Rios
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Optimizing wireless sensor networks using fuzzy triangular snake graph models and fuzzy topological indices. [PDF]
Sci RepHashem AF, Liaqat S, Mufti ZS, Hanif MF.
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