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Karyotypical Confirmation of Natural Hybridization between Two Manatee Species, Trichechus manatus and Trichechus inunguis [PDF]

Life, 2022
Two species of manatees are found in Northern Brazil—the Antillean manatee (Trichechus manatus), which is found along the coast from Florida to Northeastern Brazil, and the Amazonian manatee (Trichechus inunguis), endemic to the Amazon drainage basin ...
Edivaldo H. C. de Oliveira, Anderson J. B. Gomes, Alexandra F. Costa, Renata Emin-Lima, Cibele R. Bonvicino, Maria C. Viana, Laura M. A. Reis, Marcelo D. Vidal, Mirella V. G. Cavalcanti, Fernanda L. N. Attademo, Fábia O. Luna, Salvatore Siciliano   +11 more
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Endoparasite survey in Amazonian manatees (Trichechus inunguis) under rehabilitation in the Peruvian Amazon [PDF]

International Journal for Parasitology: Parasites and Wildlife
Manatee populations are declining worldwide, and all currently existing species are considered vulnerable by the IUCN. The most common problems during nurturing young Amazonian manatees, Trichechus inunguis, in rescue centres are of gastrointestinal ...
Philipp Sziderics, Alessandra R. Medrano Zavala, Edmundo Guadalupe Parada Lopez, E. Leonardo Davila Panduro, Juan J.E. Sanchez Babilonia, Maria S. Unterköfler, David Ebmer, Emmanouil A. Koumantakis, Jim W. Ruiz Pezo, Franco I. Macedo Tafur, Luis A. Gomez-Puerta, Hans-Peter Fuehrer   +11 more
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Ancestral chromosomal signatures of Paenungulata (Afroteria) reveal the karyotype of Amazonian manatee (Trichechus inunguis, Sirenia: Trichechidae) as the oldest among American manatees [PDF]

BMC Genomics, 2023
Background Chromosomal painting in manatees has clarified questions about the rapid evolution of sirenians within the Paenungulata clade. Further cytogenetic studies in Afrotherian species may provide information about their evolutionary dynamics ...
Flávia dos Santos Tavares, Willam Oliveira da Silva, Malcolm Andrew Ferguson-Smith, Alex Garcia Cavalleiro de Macedo Klautau, Jairo Moura Oliveira, Angélica Lúcia Figueiredo Rodrigues, Gabriel Melo-Santos, Julio Cesar Pieczarka, Cleusa Yoshiko Nagamachi, Renata Coelho Rodrigues Noronha   +9 more
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Karyotypes of Manatees: New Insights into Hybrid Formation (Trichechus inunguis × Trichechus m. manatus) in the Amazon Estuary. [PDF]

Genes (Basel), 2022
Great efforts have been made to preserve manatees. Recently, a hybrid zone was described between Trichechus inunguis (TIN) and the Trichechus manatus manatus (TMM) in the Amazon estuary.
Noronha RCR, Almeida BRR, Chagas MCS, Tavares FS, Cardoso AL, Bastos CEMC, Silva NKN, Klautau AGCM, Luna FO, Attademo FLN, Lima DS, Sabioni LA, Sampaio MIC, Oliveira JM, Nascimento LASD, Martins C, Vicari MR, Nagamachi CY, Pieczarka JC.   +18 more
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Phylogeography and sex-biased dispersal across riverine manatee populations (Trichechus inunguis and Trichechus manatus) in South America. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2012
Phylogeographic patterns and sex-biased dispersal were studied in riverine populations of West Indian (Trichechus manatus) and Amazonian manatees (T.
Paula Satizábal, Antonio A Mignucci-Giannoni, Sebastián Duchêne, Dalila Caicedo-Herrera, Carlos M Perea-Sicchar, Carmen R García-Dávila, Fernando Trujillo, Susana J Caballero   +7 more
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Establishment and Characterization of a Primary Fibroblast Cell Culture from the Amazonian Manatee (Trichechus inunguis) [PDF]

Animals
The vulnerable status of the Amazon manatee, Trichechus inunguis, indicates the need to seek measures to guarantee its conservation. In this context, the cultivation of cells in vitro is a strategy that should at least guarantee the preservation of their
Flávia dos Santos Tavares, Cesar Martins, Flávia Karina Delella, Luís Adriano Santos do Nascimento, Angélica Lúcia Figueiredo Rodrigues, Sávia Moreira, Adauto Lima Cardoso, Renata Coelho Rodrigues Noronha   +7 more
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Abdominal ultrasound in amazonian manatee (Trichechus inunguis) (Natterer, 1883) [PDF]

Brazilian Journal of Biology, 2021
Morphophysiological species researches are fundamental, and diagnostic imaging is an excellent technique, already used in wild animals, with great application, not invasive and provide real-time information of each body.
U. H. A. Barreto, A. S .S. Ribeiro, L. N. Coutinho, L. A. Moraes, P. Souza-Júnior, C. A. Santos Sousa, M. Abidu-Figueiredo   +6 more
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Salmonellosis in a young Amazonian manatee (Trichechus inunguis) [PDF]

Ciência Rural, 2020
: The objective of this study was to describe a case of salmonellosis in an Amazonian manatee (Trichechus inunguis). The animal was rescued from a tributary of the Capim River, in the municipality of Goianésia do Pará, Pará, Brazil, kept in a pool, and ...
José de Jesus Correa Neto, Rosekelly de Jesus Cardoso, Natalia Maxine Ferreira Pinheiro Sarmento, Gabriela Riet-Correa, Pedro Soares Bezerra Júnior, Carina Martins de Moraes, Alexandra Fernandes Costa, Renata Emin-Lima, Valiria Duarte Cerqueira   +8 more
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Analyses of historical documents reveal past trends of exploitation of manatees (Trichechus inunguis) in the Amazon Basin (16th-19th centuries) [version 1; peer review: 2 approved] [PDF]

Open Research Europe
The West Indian manatee (Trichechus manatus) and the Amazonian manatee (Trichechus inunguis) have been exploited by different societies from ancient times to the present.
Cristina Brito, Ana Catarina Garcia, Jaime Silva, John Nicholls, Nina Vieira   +4 more
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Progesterone monitoring and gestation length in Amazonian manatees (Trichechus inunguis)

Theriogenology Wild
Knowledge of pregnancy length and the physiological parameters during pregnancy is an important tool for pregnancy diagnosis in free-ranging and captive individuals and for the correct husbandry of captive pregnant females. Therefore, this study aimed to
Rodrigo S. Amaral, Vera M.F. da Silva, José Anselmo d’Affonsêca Neto   +2 more
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