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Morphological and molecular evidence of sandfly (Diptera: Psychodidae: Phlebotomine) and its relevance to recent cases of leishmaniasis from Jammu region of North India

open access: yesJournal of Vector Borne Diseases, 2023
Present study was conducted to carry out morphological and molecular confirmation of sandflies collected at the Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, R.S. Pura, Jammu, India.
Omer Mohi U Din Sofi   +3 more
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Animal and Birds Imagery in Poetry and the Qur’ān: A Semantic Study

open access: yesJournal of Islamic and Religious Studies, 2021
Islam looks at the animal world in a realistic way based on its importance in life and benefit to the human being, the Islamic tradition has always held animals in high esteem,” deserving the same level of consideration as humans. The Qur'an opines that
Lubna Farah Khan, Rahimullah
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Localized JNK signaling regulates organ size during development. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
A fundamental question of biology is what determines organ size. Despite demonstrations that factors within organs determine their sizes, intrinsic size control mechanisms remain elusive.
Beachy, Philip A   +5 more
core   +3 more sources

The Social Organization of Honey Bees

open access: yesEDIS, 2015
A honey bee colony is a superorganism, which means that together its members function like a single animal. Bees within a colony work together like the cells in a human body.
Ashley N. Mortensen   +2 more
doaj   +5 more sources

Prevalence and diversity of Arcobacter spp. in retail chicken meat in Turkey

open access: yesMicrobiology Research, 2016
Arcobacters are food and waterborne pathogens associated with human and animal infections. The objective of the present study was to investigate the prevalence and diversity of Arcobacter spp.
Celenk Molva, Halil Ibrahim Atabay
doaj   +1 more source

Of hummingbirds and helicopters: Hovering costs, competitive ability, and foraging strategies [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
Wing morphology and flight kinematics profoundly influence foraging costs and the overall behavioral ecology of hummingbirds. By analogy with helicopters, previous energetic studies have applied the momentum theory of aircraft propellers to estimate ...
Altshuler, Douglas L.   +2 more
core   +1 more source

The Mythic Cyborgs of Croatian Oral Legends and the Fantasy Genre
Mitski kiborzi hrvatskih usmenih predaja i fantasy žanr

open access: yesStudia Mythologica Slavica, 2011
Within the above topic, our intention is to examine the links between animal and supernatural female (mora – fairy – witch) phenomena in Croatian oral legends.
Suzana Marjanić
doaj   +1 more source

Rotational accelerations stabilize leading edge vortices on revolving fly wings [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
The aerodynamic performance of hovering insects is largely explained by the presence of a stably attached leading edge vortex (LEV) on top of their wings. Although LEVs have been visualized on real, physically modeled, and simulated insects, the physical
Dickinson, Michael H., Lentink, David
core   +2 more sources

Vocal communication in nonhuman animals: View from the wings [PDF]

open access: yesAnimal Behavior and Cognition, 2020
Forty years ago, Seyfarth, Cheney, and Marler published two papers claiming semanticity for wild vervet monkey alarms calls. The papers arrived at an extremely interesting and active time in the study of animal behavior—a period during which researchers, working both in the laboratory and the field, were trying to learn as much as possible about many ...
openaire   +2 more sources

Du banquet grec à l’imaginaire funéraire étrusque : les hybrides oculaires de la céramique attique

open access: yesGaia, 2022
In the iconographic corpus of female-animal hybridity in the archaic Mediterranean, one particular file catches the eye, that of the rare ocular hybridities in Attic pottery from the second half of the 6th century BC. These images, illustrating a process
Christian Mazet
doaj   +1 more source

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