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The external ear in eutherian mammals is composed of the annular, auricular (pinna), and scutellar cartilages. The latter extends between the pinnae, across the top of th [...]
11 November 2024 |
Organismal Biology and Anatomy |
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Time-order error, a psychophysical phenomenon in which the duration in between successive stimuli alters perception, has been studied for decades by neuroscientists and p [...]
15 October 2024 |
Computational Neuroscience; Organismal Biology and Anatomy |
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Many complex systems—from the Internet to social, biological, and communication networks—are thought to exhibit scale-free structure. However, prevailing explanations [...]
14 June 2024 |
Organismal Biology and Anatomy; Physics |
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The “gold standard” for the assessment of trabecular bone structure is high-resolution micro-CT. In this technical note, we test the influence of initial scan resolut [...]
05 September 2024 |
Organismal Biology and Anatomy |
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A new lithostrotian titanosaur, Qunkasaura pintiquiniestra gen. et sp. nov., is described based on a single partial skeleton from the late Campanian-early Maastrichtian f [...]
04 September 2024 |
Organismal Biology and Anatomy |
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Evolutionary novelties entail the origin of morphologies that enable new functions. These features can arise through changes to gene function and regulation. One key nove [...]
28 August 2024 |
Organismal Biology and Anatomy |
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During reaching, neurons in motor cortex exhibit complex, time-varying activity patterns. Though single-neuron activity correlates with movement parameters, movement corr [...]
15 August 2024 |
Organismal Biology and Anatomy |
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The moth fly, Clogmia albipunctata, is a common synanthropic insect with a worldwide range that lives in nearly any area with moist, decaying organic matter. These habita [...]
22 June 2024 |
Organismal Biology and Anatomy |
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Complex morphological structures, such as skulls or limbs, are often composed of multiple morphological components (e.g., bones, sets of bones) that may evolve in a covar [...]
08 May 2024 |
Organismal Biology and Anatomy |
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Statistical inference is central to many scientific endeavors, yet how it works remains unresolved. Answering this requires a quantitative understanding of the intrinsic [...]
24 June 2022 |
Organismal Biology and Anatomy; Physics |
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The axial columns of the earliest limbed vertebrates show distinct patterns of regionalization as compared to early tetrapodomorphs. Included among their novel features a [...]
02 April 2024 |
Evolutionary Biology; Organismal Biology and Anatomy |
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Comparative anatomy is an important tool for investigating evolutionary relationships among species, but the lack of scalable imaging tools and stains for rapidly mapping [...]
01 April 2024 |
Ecology and Evolution; Neurobiology; Organismal Biology and Anatomy; Physics |
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The lifestyle of spinosaurid dinosaurs has been a topic of lively debate ever since the unveiling of important new skeletal parts for Spinosaurus aegyptiacus in 2014 and [...]
06 March 2024 |
Evolutionary Biology; Organismal Biology and Anatomy |
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Understanding the emergence of the genus Homo is a pressing problem in the study of human origins. Australopithecus sediba has recently been proposed as the ancestral spe [...]
08 May 2019 |
Organismal Biology and Anatomy |
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The functional and evolutionary implications of primitive retentions in early hominin feet have been under debate since the discovery of Australopithecus afarensis. Ontog [...]
04 July 2018 |
Organismal Biology and Anatomy |
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The coordinated differentiation of progenitor cells into specialized cell types and their spatial organization into distinct domains is central to embryogenesis. Here, we [...]
14 December 2022 |
Human Genetics; Organismal Biology and Anatomy |
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Human brains are three times larger, are organized differently, and mature for a longer period of time than those of our closest living relatives, the chimpanzees. Togeth [...]
01 April 2020 |
Organismal Biology and Anatomy |
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High-performance suction feeding is often presented as a classic innovation of ray-finned fishes, likely contributing to their remarkable evolutionary success, whereas sh [...]
11 September 2019 |
Organismal Biology and Anatomy |
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Early limb skeletogenesis in salamanders is characterized by preaxial elements, digits I and II forming earlier than their postaxial counterparts (digits III to V), a phe [...]
14 October 2022 |
Organismal Biology and Anatomy |
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Cells must access resources to survive, and the anatomy of multicellular structures influences this access. In diverse multicellular eukaryotes, resources are provided by [...]
01 February 2024 |
Organismal Biology and Anatomy |
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Birds still share many traits with their dinosaur ancestors, making them the best living group to reconstruct certain aspects of non-avian theropod biology. Bipedal, d [...]
05 February 2014 |
Organismal Biology and Anatomy |
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The proximal promoter regions of heat-shock genes harbor a remarkable number of P transposable element (TE) insertions relative to both positive and negative [...]
29 December 2009 |
Organismal Biology and Anatomy |
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To ensure long-term reproductive success organisms have to cope with harsh environmental extremes. A reproductive strategy that simply maximizes offspring production i [...]
28 August 2014 |
Ecology and Evolution; Organismal Biology and Anatomy |
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Heat-shock genes have a well-studied control mechanism for their expression that is mediated through cis-regulatory motifs known as heat-shock elements (HSEs) [...]
17 May 2010 |
Organismal Biology and Anatomy |
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Phenotypes that appear to be conserved could be maintained not only by strong purifying selection on the underlying genetic systems, but also by stabilizing selection [...]
20 September 2012 |
Ecology and Evolution; Organismal Biology and Anatomy |
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