Urban fruit bats give birth earlier in the season compared to rural fruit bats by Maya Weinberg, Dean Zigdon, Mor Taub, Lee Harten, Ofri Eitan, Adi Rachum, Reut Assa, Omri Gal, Yossi Yovel

“…While several studies have suggested that urban dwelling alters the reproductive cycle in birds, such evidence currently has not been shown for mammals. Egyptian fruit bats are highly flexible mammals that roost and forage in both urban and rural habitats. …”
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Ecoepidemiology of Chagas Disease in a Biological Corridor in Southeastern Mexico: A Promising Approach to Understand the Risk of Chagas Disease by Ingrid Yazmin Cruz-Alegría, Nancy Gabriela Santos-Hernández, Christian Ruiz-Castillejos, Juan Felipe Ruan-Soto, Adriana Moreno-Rodríguez, Any Laura Flores-Villegas, Javier Gutiérrez-Jiménez, Luis Arturo Hernández-Mijangos, Eduardo Estanislao Espinoza-Medinilla, Dolores Guadalupe Vidal-López, José Antonio De Fuentes-Vicente

“…We set traps for small mammals and bats and conducted interviews with the inhabitants living around the study site. …”
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Persea palustris, Swamp Bay by Michael G. Andreu, Melissa H. Friedman, Mary McKenzie, Heather V. Quintana

“…Quintana, describes this native evergreen found in swamps, wet flatwoods, and on the edges of canals and marshes, whose fruit is a good food source for birds and mammals, and whose leaves are eaten by larvae of the swallowtail butterfly — scientific and common names, description, allergen, and applications. …”
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Persea palustris, Swamp Bay by Michael G. Andreu, Melissa H. Friedman, Mary McKenzie, Heather V. Quintana

“…Quintana, describes this native evergreen found in swamps, wet flatwoods, and on the edges of canals and marshes, whose fruit is a good food source for birds and mammals, and whose leaves are eaten by larvae of the swallowtail butterfly — scientific and common names, description, allergen, and applications. …”
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Facts about Wildlife Diseases: Rabies by Samantha M. Wisely, Holly K. Ober

“… Rabies is a virus carried by mammals. It kills infected humans and animals if they are not treated shortly after exposure. …”
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Facts about Wildlife Diseases: Rabies by Samantha M. Wisely, Holly K. Ober

“… Rabies is a virus carried by mammals. It kills infected humans and animals if they are not treated shortly after exposure. …”
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The design of experiments for the transcriptome studies by high-throughput sequencing methods by P. N. Menshanov, N. N. Dygalo

“…Additional sequencing does not provide any substantial additional information about the transcriptome complexity. For mammals, the optimal limit of the sequencing depth for the identification of the actively transcribed genes is equal to ~ 2 × 109 bp per biological sample. …”
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Fosab, but not fosaa, plays important role in learning and memory in fish—insights from zebrafish gene knockout study by Qiuling Wang, Qiuling Wang, Qiuling Wang, Lixin Zhang, Lixin Zhang, Lixin Zhang, Chenyuan Zhu, Chenyuan Zhu, Chenyuan Zhu, Ke Lu, Ke Lu, Ke Lu, Jiaqi Wu, Jiaqi Wu, Jiaqi Wu, Xu-Fang Liang, Xu-Fang Liang, Xu-Fang Liang

“…The proto-oncogene fos (c-fos) has been reported to be involved in brain development, learning and memory in mammals. However, whether the c-fos plays a vital role in learning and memory in fish is unclear.Methods: Almost all fish have two paralogues of c-fos named fosaa and fosab. …”
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A mathematical model for within-host Toxoplasma gondii invasion dynamics by Adam Sullivan, Folashade Agusto, Sharon Bewick, Chunlei Su, Suzanne Lenhart, Xiaopeng Zhao

“…Toxoplasma gondii (T. gondii) is a protozoan parasite thatinfects a wide range of intermediate hosts, including all mammals and birds.Up to 20% of the human population in the US and 30% in the world arechronically infected. …”
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Increased cardiac myosin super-relaxation as an energy saving mechanism in hibernating grizzly bears by Robbert J. Van der Pijl, Weikang Ma, Christopher T.A. Lewis, Line Haar, Amalie Buhl, Gerrie P. Farman, Marcus Rhodehamel, Vivek P. Jani, O Lynne Nelson, Chengxin Zhang, Henk Granzier, Julien Ochala

“…Aim: The aim of the present study was to define whether cardiac myosin contributes to energy conservation in the heart of hibernating mammals. Methods: Thin cardiac strips were isolated from the left ventricles of active and hibernating grizzly bears; and subjected to loaded Mant-ATP chase assays, X-ray diffraction and proteomics. …”
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Trend in Ambient Ozone and an Attempt to Detect Its Effect on Biota in Forest Ecosystem. Step I of Lithuanian Studies by Algirdas Augustaitis, Ingrida Augustaitiene, Almantas Kliucius, Gintautas Mozgeris, Gintaras Pivoras, Rasele Girgzdiene, Kestutis Arbaciauskas, Irena Eitminaviciute, Reda Mazeikyte

“…The presented study aimed to explore the relationships between ambient ozone (O3) and tree defoliation, specific diversity, and abundance of soil microarthropods, stream macroinvertebrates, and small mammals (mainly rodents) in order to test the hypothesis that changes in the considered objects of the forest ecosystem could be related to changes in ambient O3, concentration of which is below critical level. …”
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Gulf Coast Tick, Amblyomma maculatum Koch (Acari: Ixodidae: Amblyomminae) by Jeffrey C. Hertz, Phillip E. Kaufman

“…The ticks are ectoparasites that feed on a variety of birds and mammals, and will readily bite humans. Gulf Coast ticks are of increasing concern because of their ability to transmit several pathogens of veterinary and medical importance. …”
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Gulf Coast Tick, Amblyomma maculatum Koch (Acari: Ixodidae: Amblyomminae) by Jeffrey C. Hertz, Phillip E. Kaufman

“…The ticks are ectoparasites that feed on a variety of birds and mammals, and will readily bite humans. Gulf Coast ticks are of increasing concern because of their ability to transmit several pathogens of veterinary and medical importance. …”
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Mange in Companion Animals by Emma N. I. Weeks, Phillip E. Kaufman

“…Mange is a persistent skin condition of mammals caused by infestation with parasitic mites. …”
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Compounds Involved in the Invasive Characteristics of <i>Lantana camara</i> by Hisashi Kato-Noguchi, Midori Kato

“…Possible evidence of the compounds involved in the defense functions of <i>L. camara</i> against natural enemies, such as herbivore mammals and insects, parasitic nematodes, pathogenic fungi and bacteria, and the allelochemicals involved in its allelopathy against neighboring competitive plant species, have accumulated in the literature over three decades. …”
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Systematic review of innate immune responses against Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex infection in animal models by Luisa Maria Nieto Ramirez, Carolina Mehaffy, Karen Marie Dobos

“…BackgroundMycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) complex (MTBC) includes ten species that affect mammals and pose a significant global health concern. …”
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The neuroendocrine stress-response in insects: the history of the development of the concept by M. A. Eremina, N. E. Gruntenko

“…Nevertheless, since the early 1980s, enough evidence of the development of stress reaction in insects has been gathered, which emphasizes the conservative nature of the stress reaction in mammals and insects. The similarity in the neurochemical and physiological changes in invertebrates and vertebrates in response to a stressful influence indicates that the response to a stressor is a complex of ancient mechanisms preserved in evolution. …”
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Synapsis and recombination of autosomes and sex chromosomes in two terns (Sternidae, Charadriiformes, Aves) by A. P. Lisachov, L. P. Malinovskaya, A. V. Druzyaka, P. M. Borodin, A. A. Torgasheva

“…However, most original data were obtained from mammals. The mammals show high karyological variability, which strongly influences the recombination patterns. …”
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Human Bot Fly, torsalo (Central America), moyocuil (Mexico), berne (Brasil), mucha (Colombia, mirunta (Peru), and ura (Argentina, Paraguay, and Uruguay), Dermatobia hominis (Linnae... by Stephanie K. Larrick, C. Roxanne Rutledge-Connelly

“…It describes this large, densely haired fly native to Central and South America, which, in its larval stage, infests the skin of mammals causing painful pustules, a condition known as myiasis. …”
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New Perspectives on Tooth Wear by Peter W. Lucas, Ridwaan Omar

“…Some of the efforts that have been made to document tooth wear are reviewed here with an emphasis on nonhuman mammals, literature with which dentists may not be very familiar. …”
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