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Use of ethnozoology and environmental education to unveilchildren's conception of anuran amphibians/Utilização da etnozoologia e educação ambiental para desvendar a concepção das crianças em relação aos anfíbios anuros

open access: yesDiversitas Journal, 2020
The absence of knowledge about anuran amphibians can lead to the banal extermination of species. Ethnozoology studies the relationship between human cultures over animals.
Jéssika Silva de Lima   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

DNA fingerprinting in zoology: past, present, future

open access: yesInvestigative Genetics, 2014
In 1962, Thomas Kuhn famously argued that the progress of scientific knowledge results from periodic ‘paradigm shifts’ during a period of crisis in which new ideas dramatically change the status quo.
G. Chambers   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Infection Models for Pine Wilt Disease on the Basis of Vector Behaviors

open access: yesPopulation Ecology, EarlyView.
Infection models for pine wilt disease without vector density were built to estimate the transmission coefficient of the pathogenic nematode. The models successfully simulated the annual change in the density of infected trees for four pine stands. ABSTRACT Pine wilt disease is caused by the pinewood nematode (Bursaphelenchus xylophilus Steiner et ...
Katsumi Togashi
wiley   +1 more source

The amazing travels of a great naturalist to Sarawak (Malaysia): Odoardo Beccari’s wanderings in Borneo, 1865–1868

open access: yesJournal of Maps, 2021
Odoardo Beccari (1843–1920) is considered to be one of the more important Italian naturalists of the nineteenth century, in particular for his pioneering explorations of the Malaysian Archipelago.
Daniele Viciani   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Wild bats briefly decouple sound production from wingbeats to increase sensory flow during prey captures

open access: yesiScience, 2021
Summary: Active sensing animals such as echolocating bats produce the energy with which they probe their environment. The intense echolocation calls of bats are energetically expensive, but their cost can be reduced by synchronizing the exhalations ...
Laura Stidsholt   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Microbial exopolysaccharide production by polyextremophiles in the adaptation to multiple extremes

open access: yesFEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Polyextremophiles are microorganisms that endure multiple extreme conditions by various adaptation strategies that also include the production of exopolysaccharides (EPSs). This review provides an integrated perspective on EPS biosynthesis, function, and regulation in these organisms, emphasizing their critical role in survival and highlighting their ...
Tracey M Gloster, Ebru Toksoy Öner
wiley   +1 more source

Machine learning algorithms can predict emotional valence across ungulate vocalizations

open access: yesiScience
Summary: Vocalizations can vary as a function of their context of production and provide an immediate measure of an animal’s affective states. If vocal expression of emotions has been conserved throughout evolution, direct between-species comparisons ...
Romain A. Lefèvre   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Card games are effective tools to enhance foundation year health and safety inductions

open access: yesFEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
A series of three card games was developed to actively deliver health and safety education to foundation year students. Most students reported positive responses regarding their enjoyment (89.9 %) and learning (74.7 %) from all games evaluated. Data revealed significant improvements in health and safety knowledge (P < 0.0001).
Rumana Rafiq   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Zoologie et philologie dans les grands traités ichtyologiques renaissants

open access: yesKentron, 2013
Basing his study on the greatest treatises in ichthyology of latest medieval times and beginning of Renaissance (Hortus sanitatis and works of Paolo Giovio, Petrus Gyllius, Pierre Belon, Edward Wotton, Ippolito Salviani ...
Arnaud Zucker
doaj   +1 more source

Text Book of Zoology

open access: yesNature, 1929
THE “Text-book of Zoology,” by Dr. Boas, which is now presented to English students in this country in the form of a translation by Miss Kirkaldy and Miss Pollard, has this advantage over many similar books at present in use, that it is complete in one ...
Parker Haswell th, Macmillan
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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