small mammals
Ecological and microbiological diversity of chigger mites, including vectors of scrub typhus, on small mammals across stratified habitats in Thailand
... on small mammals was even higher than in our study and increased according to lati- tude up to a zenith at 25–26°N before decreasing further north [ 25 ], suggesting the presence of an optimum zone (our ...
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Pathogenic Leptospira in commensal small mammals from the extensively urbanized coastal Benin
... Discussion Small mammals, especially rodents, constitute an important component of wild urban faunas and are implicated in the maintenance, circulation, and transmission (to humans) of a large range of ...
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Spatiotemporal variations of the incidence of the fleas (Siphonaptera) on domestic small mammals in the city of Cotonou, Benin
... of small mammals conducted in urban and coastal environments of Benin by (Houéménou, 2006), showed the abundance of Rattus rattus ...of small mammals of Cotonou city in the transmission of ...
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Spatiotemporal variations of the incidence of the fleas (Siphonaptera) on domestic small mammals in the city of Cotonou, Benin.
... findings: Small mammal community in Cotonou was dominated by Rattus rattus and fleas by Xenopsylla ...the small mammals and their ...of small mammals for the human population is ...
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Native and Invasive Small Mammals in Urban Habitats along the Commercial Axis Connecting Benin and Niger, West Africa
... for small mammals in other studies [ 23 , 92 ...commensal small mammal assemblages varies strongly with the status of invasion, and to a lesser extent, with the spatial distance between ...within ...
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Barn owl pellets collected in coastal savannas yield two additional species of small mammals for French Guiana
... Barn owl pellets collected in coastal savannas yield two additional species of small mammals for French Guiana.. Antoine Baglan, Francois Catzeflis.[r] ...
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An illustrated key to the mandibles of small mammals of eastern Canada
... this is a new tool for identifying and monitoring all of the small mammals of eastern Canada. to our knowledge, this is the first comprehensive key designed in north America that uses the mandible ...
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Detection of Neospora caninum (Toxoplasmatidae) in wild small mammals from Thailand
... In Thailand, neosporosis in dairy cattle is a major con- cern, among many other diseases, by lowering production of milk and meat. Inpankaew et al. (2014) recorded a prev- alence of 47% by ELISA and of 34% by IFAT in 642 ...
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Distribution of ticks, tick-borne pathogens and the associated local environmental factors including small mammals and livestock, in two French agricultural sites: the OSCAR database
... (Chastagner et al. 2016) and Babesia (Jouglin et al. 2017). Ear biopsies were stored in 70% ethanol for detection of Borrelia spp. (Jacquot et al. 2016). DNA from spleen and ear samples were extracted using the ...
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Fleas of Small Mammals on Reunion Island: Diversity, Distribution and Epidemiological Consequences
... showing respectively 99% and 94% identity with sequences obtained from Tanzanian fleas. Phylogenetic analysis carried out with both nuclear and cytoplasmic markers provided two well resolved mostly congruent trees, ...
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Improved mitochondrial coupling as a response to high mass-specific metabolic rate in extremely small mammals
... relatively small variance in liver mass, irrespective of body mass, leading to a much greater relative liver mass in smaller individuals compared with larger ...in mammals), suggesting a higher proportion ...
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The origin of the allometric scaling of lung's ventilation in mammals
... in small mammals. Since small mammals already use most of their exchange surface at BMR, they have almost no margin for increasing the available surface at ...
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Sexual differentiation of the neuroendocrine mechanisms regulating mate recognition in mammals
... Centre for Cellular and Molecular Neurobiology, Research Group in Behavioural Neuroendocrinology, University of Liege, Liege, Belgium. Key words: oestradiol, sexual differentiation, olfaction, behaviour, aromatase ...
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Allometric scaling of heat and water exchanges in the mammals' lung
... temperature is a key factor to understand the mammals’ lung water exchanges and heat dissipation. At the individual level, mechanisms for blood flow regulation can affect the heat exchanges. Well known examples ...
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Anthropogenic and naturally-produced organobrominated compounds in marine mammals from Brazil
... observed among samples from 14 cetaceans of five different species from the Mediterranean Sea was 808 ng/g lw in a Risso's dolphin (Grampus griseus), considering the sum of three methoxylated tetrabromodiphenylethers ...
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A new approach to DNA-aided ancestral trait reconstruction in mammals
... a small number, of major effect ...early mammals [1], to the loss of functional uricases in primates, leading to high rates of gout, obesity and hypertension in present day humans ...in small species ...
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The sirtuin SIRT6 regulates stress granule formation in C. elegans and mammals
... Seven SIR2 homologs (SIRT1–SIRT7) have been identified in mammals. They share the conserved sirtuin domain but vary in subcellular localization and function. SIRT1, SIRT6 and SIRT7 localize to the nucleus; SIRT3, ...
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Gene expression, chromosome heterogeneity and the fast-X effect in mammals
... 1. Introduction In mammals and other groups, the X-linked protein-coding genes accumulate non-synonymous substitutions at a faster rate than autosomes [1,2]. The most popular explanation for this pattern invokes ...
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Small Stories
... small stories , allant des « histoires à raconter » ( stories to be told ) aux « histoires partagées » ( shared stories ), en passant par les « nouvelles » ou « dernières nouvelles » ( breaking news ) et les « ...
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Contrasting gene decay in subterranean vertebrates: insights from cavefishes and fossorial mammals
... Abstract Evolution sometimes proceeds by loss, especially when structures and genes become dispensable after an environmental shift relaxes functional constraints. Subterranean vertebrates are outstanding models to ...
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