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Ecotoxicology Methods of Reservoir Water Using Invertebrates
This chapter explains different ecotoxicological methods utilizing invertebrates for the assessment of water quality of reservoirs and provides...
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Sociality and its Relevance in Group Hunting Mammalian Predators
What sets apart social predators from other predators is their ability to hunt together and successfully attack prey larger than themselves, defend...
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Exome sequencing and microarray identified a novel large exonic deletion in SYT2 gene in an ultra-rare case with recessive CMS type 7
Congenital myasthenic syndromes (CMSs) are a diverse group of diseases that have an underlying defect in transmission of signals from nerve cells to...
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Combining landscape and genetic graphs to address key issues in landscape genetics
ContextAll the components of landscape and genetic structures can be associated with the nodes and links of landscape graphs and genetic graphs. Yet,...
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Increased Stress Tolerance in Plants as a Result of Parental Effects
Parental effects occur when phenotypes are not only shaped by genotypes and the environment experienced by the organism, but also intrinsic and/or...
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Phenotypic Evolution in Fabry Disease: Our Experience in Indian Cohort
The current study aimed to explore phenotypic evolution in Fabry disease according to demographics, genotype, specific enzyme activity and...
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Parentage assignment reveals multiple paternity in the critically-endangered Guatemalan beaded lizard (Heloderma charlesbogerti)
Within captive management programs for species of conservation concern, understanding the genetic mating system is of fundamental importance, given...
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Novel strategy of multiple-locus variable number tandem repeats analysis for genetic fingerprinting of human
BackgroundThe variable number of tandem repeat (VNTR) analyses are methods based on the detection of repeated sequences within the human genome. In...
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Caenorhabditis elegans: A Unique Animal Model to Study Soil–Nanoparticles–Organism Interactions
Caenorhabditis elegans has emerged in recent times as a plausible metazoan model to study environmental toxicity, particularly caused by engineered...
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An intestinal sphingolipid confers intergenerational neuroprotection
In animals, maternal diet and environment can influence the health of offspring. Whether and how maternal dietary choice impacts the nervous system...
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Epigenetic Inheritance
The field of epigenetics, orchestrating molecular communication at the genome-phenotype interface, has gained significant importance over the last...
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Semiotically Mediated Human-Bee Communication in the Practice of Brazilian Meliponiculture
Stingless bees are among the most dominant pollinators in the south tropics. As such, the rational beekee** of stingless bee species, called...
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Evaluation of proposed genetic goals and targets for the Convention on Biological Diversity
In the current negotiations regarding revision of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) proposals have been made to strengthen the genetic...
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Spontaneous Mutation Rates
There is a long-standing interest in the study of mutations—from the quest to enhance evolutionary inference related to the genetic underpinnings of...
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Locally protected forests: status, character and challenges a case study of Inhambane Province, southern Mozambique
Mozambique has undocumented forest patches that are cultural landscapes and locally protected as heritage sites. Using the case of Inhambane...
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Impact of Nanoparticles on Soil Ecosystems
With the rapid development of nanotechnology, the ecological safety assessment of nanomaterials has gradually become one of the hot topic for...
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Individual-level patterns of resource selection do not predict hotspots of contact
Contact among animals is crucial for various ecological processes, including social behaviors, disease transmission, and predator–prey interactions....
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Chronic toxic effects of fragmented polyvinyl chloride on the water flea Moina macrocopa
BackgroundAlthough many studies have reported the detrimental potential of commercially synthesized sphere types of microplastics (MPs) and...
