Odetti, L M Simoniello, M F Poletta, G L
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Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology
The aim of this study was to quantify the expression levels of Catalase (cat) and copper, zinc Superoxide dismutase (Cu, Zn-sod) genes involved in the antioxidant response in Caiman latirostris (broad-snouted caiman) blood, after embryonic exposure to the formulations cypermethrin (CYP), chlorpyrifos (CPF), glyphosate (GLY), and their binary and te...
Pérez García, Adán Cabezuelo Hernández, Alberto Guerrero, Andréa Martín Jiménez, Marcos Mocho, Pedro Narváez, Iván Ortega, Francisco Torices, Angelica Vullo, Romain
The largest concentration of vertebrate macroremains for the Cenomanian of south-westernEurope has been recognized at the palaeontological area of Algora (Guadalajara Province, centralSpain). The study of the taxa identified there provided new information about the palaeobiogeographyand temporal distributions of some lineages, and increased knowled...
Khan, Mehran Islam, Nabila Khan, Alamzeb Islam, Zia Ul Muñoz-Leal, Sebastián Labruna, Marcelo B Ali, Abid
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Ticks and tick-borne diseases
Ticks are hematophagous ectoparasites of terrestrial and semi-aquatic vertebrates that may transmit microorganisms to their hosts. Spirochetes of the genus Borrelia are common in ticks and an incipient group has been identified in association with reptiles and their tick parasites. To overcome the knowledge deficit, this study aimed to morphologica...
Ting, Allison Kah Yann Tay, Vanessa Shu Yu Chng, Hui Ting Xie, Shangzhe
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Veterinary and animal science
Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) and opioids are analgesics used for moderate to severe pain in many animals, including reptiles. However, reptilian dosing regimens are often extrapolated from other animal species. This is not ideal as inter- and intra-species variability in physiology may result in varied drug disposition. Therefore,...
Howard, Alexandra
Snakes are a speciose clade of squamates that have diversified into almost all habitats, all with the same elongate limbless body plan. This thesis aims to improve scientific understanding of snake evolution by focusing on novel perspectives using both extant snakes and the fossil record. 1. Alternate phylogenetic positions of fossils affects body ...
Diard, Lana de Chambrier, Alain Waeschenbach, Andrea Scholz, Tomáš
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Parasitology international
A new species of proteocephalid cestodes, provisionally assigned to the polyphyletic genus Ophiotaenia La Rue, 1911 (Cestoda: Proteocephalidae), is described from Compsophis infralineatus (Günther) (Serpentes: Pseudoxyrhophiidae) endemic to Madagascar. Ophiotaenia oreae n. sp. differs from all African and Asian species of Ophiotaenia by possessing ...
Schou, Chad Hasapis, Kyriacos Karanis, Panagiotis
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Parasitology research
The presence of Cryptosporidium species in faecal samples of 32 sheep (Aries bovis), 10 goats (Capra circus), 1 blunt nose viper (Macrovipera lebetina lebetina), 3 Kotschy's geckos (Mediodactylus kotschyi) and 6 wild stellagamas (Stellagama stellio cypriaca) in Cyprus were investigated by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and sequencing. Cryptosporid...
Siffert, Lucas Rodrigues [UNIFESP]
A falta de conhecimento a respeito de temas relacionados à herpetofauna, somada às informações incorretas que são popularmente disseminadas a respeito deste tema, podem ter como resultado o desenvolvimento de ideias estereotipadas, generalistas e equivocadas destes animais. Tal situação pode gerar impactos negativos na conservação e preservação dos...
Mirza, Zeeshan A Bragin, Andrey M Bhosale, Harshal Gowande, Gaurang G Patel, Harshil Poyarkov, Nikolay A
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PeerJ
The Himalayas represent a renowned biodiversity hotspot and an important biogeographic realm that has influenced origin and diversification of multiple taxa. A recent herpetological investigation of the eastern Himalayas of the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh led to the discovery of a unique lineage of ablepharine skink, which is herein described...
Hoops, Daniel Whiting, Martin J. Keogh, J. Scott
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Brain, Behavior and Evolution
The habenula is a small structure in the brain that acts as a relay station for neural information, helping to modulate behaviour in response to variable and unpredictable stimuli. Broadly, it is evolutionarily conserved in structure and connectivity across vertebrates and is the most prominent bilaterally asymmetric structure in the brain. Nonethe...
