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An Adaptive Threshold in Mammalian Neocortical Evolution

, 2013
Expansion of the neocortex is a hallmark of human evolution. However, it remains an open question what adaptive mechanisms facilitated its expansion.
Huttner, Wieland B, Kalinka, Alex T., Kelava, Iva, Lewitus, Eric, Tomancak, Pavel   +4 more
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Cuban Land Use and Conservation, from Rainforests to Coral Reefs [PDF]

, 2018
Cuba is an ecological rarity in Latin America and the Caribbean. Its complex political and economic history shows limited disturbances, extinctions, pollution, and resource depletion by legal or de facto measures.
Ahamed, Sonya, Fernandez, Margarita, Fiske, Greg, Galford, Gillian L, Gonzalez-Diaz, Patricia, Kaufman, Les, Monasterolo, Irene, Roman, Joe   +7 more
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Xica - a história de vida do peixe-boi-marinho (Trichechus manatus) mais velho do Brasil: relato de caso

Medicina Veterinária, 2021
O peixe-boi-marinho (Trichechus manatus), um dos mamíferos aquáticos mais ameaçados de extinção do Brasil, tem o resgate e a reabilitação destes animais como importante ferramenta de conservação. Xica foi resgatada de um cativeiro inadequado na praça do
Fabia de Oliveira Luna, Fernanda Loffler Niemeyer Attademo   +1 more
doaj  

Trichechus Linnaeus 1758

, 1982
Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Sirenia, pp. 305-306 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc.
Honacki, James H., Kinman, Kenneth E., Koeppl, James W.   +2 more
openaire   +1 more source

Additional records of metazoan parasites from Caribbean marine mammals, including genetically identified anisakid nematodes [PDF]

, 2009
Studies of marine mammal parasites in the Caribbean are scarce. An assessment for marine mammal endo- and ectoparasites from Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, but extending to other areas of the Caribbean, was conducted between 1989 and 1994.
A Coy-Otero, A Valentini, AA Mignucci-Giannoni, AA Mignucci-Giannoni, AA Mignucci-Giannoni, AI García-Rodríguez, Antonio A. Mignucci-Giannoni, AO Debrot, AS Skrjabin, B Berland, B Morales-Vela, B Morales-Vela, CA Beck, D Blair, DF Cowan, DF McAlpine, DI Gibson, DJ Forrester, DM Hillis, DW Rice, EP Hoberg, Ernest H. Williams, FJ Aznar, FJ Aznar, G Gunter, GE Pendergraph, Giuseppe Nascetti, GJB Ross, GJB Ross, HA Baylis, HEM Yang, J Felsenstein, J Testa, JA Raga, JA Raga, JA Raga, JA Vianna, JD Thompson, JE Heyning, JL Bannister, JT Davey, KA McColl, L Paggi, LA Dierauf, LF Khalil, M Fernández, M Ortíz, Marlene M. Colón-Llavina, MC Milinkovitch, MD Dailey, MD Dailey, MD Dailey, MF Nikaido, Michela Paoletti, MM Bryden, N Kagei, PW Arnold, R Iglesias, RP Dollfus, S Kumar, S Mattiucci, S Mattiucci, S Mattiucci, S Mattiucci, S Mattiucci, S Mattiucci, S Yamaguti, S Yamaguti, S Yamaguti, S Yamaguti, S Yamaguti, S Yamaguti, SA Nadler, SC Schell, SC Schmidt, SG Zam, Simonetta Mattiucci, SJ Upton, T Pontes, TA Hall, TL Deardorff, VE Sokolov   +81 more
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Morphology, morphometry and ultrastructure of the Amazonian manatee (Sirenia: Trichechidae) spermatozoa

Zoologia (Curitiba), 2010
This study describes the morphological, morphometric and ultrastructural characteristics of the Amazonian manatee Trichechus inunguis (Natterer, 1883) spermatozoon. The spermatozoa were obtained from a urine sample of an adult T.
Rodrigo S. Amaral, Carolina M. Lucci, Fernando C. W. Rosas, Vera M. F. da Silva, Sônia N. Báo   +4 more
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A Regional Assessment of Florida Manatees (Trichechus manatus latirostris) and the Caloosahatchee River, Florida [PDF]

, 2006
(58pp.
Flamm, Richard O., McDonald, Sara L.
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Morphological variation in atlas and axis of Neotropical spiny rats (Rodentia, Echimyidae)

The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Censusing manatees: a report on the feasibility of using aerial surveys and mark and recapture techniques to conduct a population survey of the West Indian Manatee [PDF]

, 1982
This report results from an invitation to review the needs and prospects for capture-recapture and aerial census studies of the manatee (Trichechus manatus) in Florida. Three aerial reconnaissance flights provided a first hand view of manatee habitats,
Eberhardt, L. Lee, Packard, Jane M., Percival, H. Franklin   +2 more
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Health Assessment and Seroepidemiologic Survey of Potential Pathogens in Wild Antillean Manatees (Trichechus manatus manatus) [PDF]

, 2012
The Antillean manatee (Trichechus manatus manatus), a subspecies of the West Indian manatee, inhabits fresh, brackish, and warm coastal waters distributed along the eastern border of Central America, the northern coast of South America, and throughout ...
Aguirre, A.A. (Alonso), Auil Gomez, N. (Nicole), Bonde, R.K. (Robert), Kreuder Johnson, C. (Christine), Luttrell, M.P. (Page), Nielsen, K. (Klaus), Osterhaus, A.D.M.E. (Albert), Powell, J. (James), Sulzner, K. (Kathryn)   +8 more
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