Many roads to reservoirs? How susceptibility and shedding shape host competence in amphibians
Functional Ecology, EarlyView.Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. Abstract Host competence—the ability to acquire, harbour and transmit infections—drives pathogen spread and persistence in multi‐host communities. Evaluating species‐specific competence is critical for predicting transmission, particularly for generalist fungal pathogens like ...
Joseph A. DeMarchi +7 more
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Correlation between the use of dried Toad skin-radix clematidis and the development of intestinal dysbiosis and colorectal cancer. [PDF]
Cancer Cell IntWang XY, Pan LJ, Yang B, Liu Y, Tang DX.
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Functional Ecology, EarlyView.Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. Abstract The nested subset pattern (nestedness) has been widely used to explain species distributions in island and fragmented systems. Mountain sky islands serve as critical natural laboratories for understanding the evolutionary consequences of geographic isolation and climate
Caiwen Zhang +5 more
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Community‐level effects of Müllerian mimicry on pollinator diversity and functioning
Functional Ecology, EarlyView.Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. Abstract Müllerian mimicry, a mutualistic interaction in which harmful species evolve similar warning signals, is often accompanied by niche divergence among mimetic species. While these aspects have traditionally been studied in an evolutionary context, their community‐level ...
Paola Laiolo, José Ramón Obeso
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Development and validation of a spectrophotometric method for the quantification of total bufadienolides in samples of toad glandular secretions. [PDF]
J Venom Anim Toxins Incl Trop DisBarros EDS +4 more
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Preservation of stable isotope niche dynamics in squamate museum specimens
Journal of Animal Ecology, EarlyView.This paper presents the first research on the effects of fluid specimen preservation in a community context, demonstrating the recovery of metrics of niche dynamics across a diverse array of squamate taxa. Abstract Natural history museums are invaluable resources for large‐scale ecological and evolutionary studies, but certain ecological traits can be ...
Maggie R. Grundler, Erica Bree Rosenblum
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Genome-Wide Identification and Expression Analysis of the Aquaporin Gene Family in the Qinghai Toad-Headed Agama (<i>Phrynocephalus vlangalii</i>) and Responses to Acute Cold Stress. [PDF]
Biology (Basel)Zhang Y, Yang P, Li X, Wang J.
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Linguistic Evidence Suggests that Xiōng‐nú and Huns Spoke the Same Paleo‐Siberian Language
Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.Abstract The Xiōng‐nú were a tribal confederation who dominated Inner Asia from the third century BC to the second century AD. Xiōng‐nú descendants later constituted the ethnic core of the European Huns. It has been argued that the Xiōng‐nú spoke an Iranian, Turkic, Mongolic or Yeniseian language, but the linguistic affiliation of the Xiōng‐nú and the ...
Svenja Bonmann, Simon Fries
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