Stable isotopic composition of fossil mammal teeth and environmental change in southwestern South Africa during the Pliocene and Pleistocene [PDF]
, 2016 The past 5 million years mark a global change from the warmer, more stable climate of the Pliocene to the initiation of glacial-interglacial cycles during the Pleistocene. Marine core sediment records located off the coast of southwestern Africa indicate
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The pig Propotamochoeurs palaeochoerus from the upper Miocene of Grytsiv, Ukraine
Estudios Geologicos, 1999 El suido de Grytsiv (= Gritsev) en Ucrania pertenece al género Propotamochoerus. Este género todavía no se conocía en el Mioceno de Europa oriental.
J. van der Made +2 more
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Viruses, 2020 African swine fever is a highly lethal hemorrhagic fever of Suidae, threatening pig production globally. Suidae can be infected by different ways like ingestion of contaminated feed, direct contact with infected animals or fomites, and biting by infected
Rémi Pereira De Oliveira +6 more
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On the Authorship, Availability, and Improper Use of Sus scrofa ferus for Referring to Wild Pigs
Taxonomy, 2022 The wild boar, Sus scrofa, is one of the most successful large mammals in terms of geographic distribution. Along with its domestic descendant, the pig, they are extremely important animals for conservation, economy, human sustenance, and well-being ...
Alessio Iannucci
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Animals, 2023 Polymorphisms in the human ABO gene determine the major blood classification system based on the three well-known forms: A; B; and O. In pigs that carry only two main alleles in this gene (A and O), we still need to obtain a more comprehensive ...
Matteo Bolner +4 more
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First report of Quaternary mammals from the Qalehjough area, Lut Desert, Eastern Iran [PDF]
, 2016 Taxonomic study of Quaternary mammal remains from the Qalehjough fossil site, eastern Iran, has resulted in the identification of two mammal orders, Artiodactyla and Perissodactyla, with four families and six taxa.
Aliabadian, Mansour +5 more
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Trace element analysis provides insight into the diets of early Late Miocene ungulates from the Rudabánya II locality (Hungary) [PDF]
, 2017 The early Late Miocene vertebrate locality of Rudabánya II (R. II) in northeastern Hungary preserves an abundance of forest-adapted ungulate species. To better understand the ecological relationships within this ancient ecosystem, we used analysis of ...
Begun, D. R. +2 more
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Brain Mass and Encephalization Quotients in the Domestic Industrial Pig (Sus scrofa) [PDF]
, 2016 open6siIn the present study we examined the brain of fetal, newborn, and adult pigs raised for meat production. The fresh and formalin-fixed weights of the brain have been recorded and used, together with body weight, to calculate the Encephalization ...
Andrea Pirone +5 more
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Motivation and Habits of a Wild Boar-Hunting Community
AnimalsThe wild boar (Sus scrofa) is a widespread ungulate, the populations of which have recently increased throughout most of its range. This increase has caused negative impacts on ecosystems, biodiversity, and society.
Vasileios J. Kontsiotis +2 more
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Trypanosome diversity in wildlife species from the Serengeti and Luangwa Valley ecosystems [PDF]
, 2012 <p>Background: The importance of wildlife as reservoirs of African trypanosomes pathogenic to man and livestock is well recognised. While new species of trypanosomes and their variants have been identified in tsetse populations, our knowledge of ...
Barbara Mable +11 more
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