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Seasonal and diurnal variation of vocal behaviour in duetting White-browed Sparrow Weavers
Singing in tropical and Southern hemisphere birds often occurs throughout the year in the form of duetting, which is thought to be associated with year-round territoriality. White-browed Sparrow Weavers (Plocepas...
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Urologische Ursachen
Auch urologische Erkrankungen, wie Harnkolik, Pyelonephritis, Harnverhalt oder Hodentorsion können Beschwerden im Sinne eines akuten Abdomens verursachen. Die richtigen differenzialdiagnostischen Erwägungen, d...
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Open AccessDuets recorded in the wild reveal that interindividually coordinated motor control enables cooperative behavior
Many organisms coordinate rhythmic motor actions with those of a partner to generate cooperative social behavior such as duet singing. The neural mechanisms that enable rhythmic interindividual coordination of...
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No evidence for multimodal body mass distributions and body mass-related capture order in wild-caught Damaraland mole-rats
Division of labour among workers is a universal property of eusocial insect societies. For Damaraland mole-rats (Fukomys damarensis), a eusocial mammal, it was proposed that workers can be divided into morphologi...
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Open AccessBreeding status and social environment differentially affect the expression of sex steroid receptor and aromatase mRNA in the brain of female Damaraland mole-rats
The Damaraland mole-rat (Fukomys damarensis) is a eusocial, subterranean mammal, which exhibits an extreme reproductive skew with a single female (queen) monopolizing reproduction in each colony. Non-reproductive...
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A Way Through the Maze: Exploring Differences and Overlaps Between Wellness and Medical Tourism Providers
The aims of this chapter are as follows:
to develop a typology of medical and wellness tourism providers and to explore differences and overlaps between the two forms of tourism...
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Open AccessImpact of age on the efficacy of bone marrow mononuclear cell transplantation in experimental stroke
Bone marrow-derived mononuclear cells (BM MNC) have been effectively used to treat experimental stroke. Most of the preclinical trials have been performed in young and healthy laboratory animals, even though a...
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Traumatic Brain Injury Elicits Similar Alterations in α7 Nicotinic Receptor Density in Two Different Experimental Models
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a major cause of death and disability worldwide, especially in children and young adults. Previous studies have shown alterations in the central cholinergic neurotransmission af...
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Protective effect of hyperbaric oxygen therapy on experimental brain contusions
Background We evaluated the effect of hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBO) on experimental brain contusions in rats using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).
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Phylogeography of island canary (Serinus canaria) populations
Island canaries (Serinus canaria) are characterised as a species living exclusively on North Atlantic islands, mainly on the Azores, Madeira and Canary Islands. Although they are very common in their habitats, th...
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Mate fidelity in a population of Island Canaries (Serinus canaria) in the Madeiran Archipelago
Previous studies have shown that extra-pair paternity occurs less frequently in island populations than in mainland populations. This is thought to be due mainly to the low genetic variability in island popula...
