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Journal of Threatened Taxa, 2016 The cause for rapid decline of the South Asian vulture population in 1990s was unknown for many years until diclofenac was proved to be the main reason for such decline in 2004.
Sunita Phuyal +3 more
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Antibiotics threaten wildlife: circulating quinolone residues and disease in Avian scavengers. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2008 Antibiotic residues that may be present in carcasses of medicated livestock could pass to and greatly reduce scavenger wildlife populations. We surveyed residues of the quinolones enrofloxacin and its metabolite ciprofloxacin and other antibiotics ...
Jesús A Lemus +5 more
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Advanced Science, EarlyView.A deep learning–driven pipeline mining 246 million protein sequences uncovers AhPETase, an evolutionarily distinct PET hydrolase. Engineered variant AhPETaseM1 degrades post‐consumer PET microplastics under physiological conditions and reverses microplasticinduced cytotoxicity in human lung and colon cells, establishing enzymatic microplastic ...
Yuxuan Wang +9 more
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Herbivory‐Induced Stomatal Opening Triggers the Dispersal of an Invasive Insect Herbivore
Advanced Science, EarlyView.The invasive leafminer Phthorimaea absoluta uniquely manipulates plant defenses by inducing stomatal opening in tomato. This response, mediated by the stomatal regulator IQM1, enhances the release of the repellent volatile benzaldehyde. This volatile triggers the dispersal of adult moths, facilitates colonization of new hosts, and leads to rapid ...
Limin Chen +10 more
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Investigations of the Evolved Molecular Basis for Terpenoid Biosynthesis in Marine Sponges
Advanced Science, EarlyView.Confirming and extending a previous observation in another Bubarida sponge, genomic and functional analyses of A. cavernosa reveal that sponges retain the mevalonate pathway and employ single α‐domain T1TSs and UbiA‐type TSs for terpenoid biosynthesis. The absence of T1TSs clustering with other biosynthetic genes tentatively suggests, based on limited ...
Fangyan Chen +6 more
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Have Vultures Left the Battlefield? Scavengers and War in Greek Historiography
Histos, 2018 There is much talk in the Iliad of dead warriors abandoned to vultures, and information about vultures tormenting armies can be found in ancient works from various literary genres.
Lucyna Kostuch
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How predictability of feeding patches affects home range and foraging habitat selection in avian social scavengers? [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 Feeding stations are commonly used to sustain conservation programs of scavengers but their impact on behaviour is still debated. They increase the temporal and spatial predictability of food resources while scavengers have supposedly evolved to search ...
Sophie Monsarrat +5 more
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Advanced Science, EarlyView.A mechanically activated SynNotch reporter platform enables detection of force transmission through receptors as they mediate immune cell interactions. Targeting CD40 on B cells and TCR on T cells records force‐induced reporter activation across 2D coculture, 3D organoid, and implanted in mice, which also reveal force‐amplification of immune receptor ...
Menglan Li +9 more
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Nesting associations between vultures and weavers [PDF]
, 2018 Records of nesting associations between vultures and weavers are collated and presented, based on literature records, and records from the citizen science databases: PHOtos of Weaver Nests (PHOWN) and southern African Nest Record Cards.
Oschadleus, H. Dieter +1 more
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