Damien Aubert

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What are exactly the different types of fetomaternal interdigitations in placentas?

I am quite confused because some sources distinguish between 5 types: folded, lamellar, villous, trabecular, labyrinthine (e.g. Benirschke's Pathology of the Human Placenta ; Evolution of the...

14 March 2024 7,853 2 View

Could someone share an electronic copy of Takhtajan 2009's Florwering Plants?

EDIT: I received the book, thank you! ----------------------------------------------------------------- Old message: I am looking for a PDF of Takhtajan A. (2009) "Flowering Plants". Springer...

18 January 2018 832 4 View

How cladism was perceived in former Soviet Union, and how is it perceived now in Russia and other eastern European countries?

Since cladistics and then cladism were born in Western Germany and then developped in English-speaking Western countries, I am interested in the perception of this classificatory philosophy in the...

16 May 2017 6,223 22 View

Shouldn't the agent of Canine Transmissible Venereal Tumor be considered a full-fledged species?

To my knowledge, I have seen no discussion about the relationship between the species concepts and the CTVT. Since this lineage of cancer cells has been transmitted from dog to dog (and wolves)...

28 July 2016 3,074 3 View

Are there still adherents to phenetic classification today?

Basically, there are three modern schools of taxonomy: cladism, evolutionism and pheneticism. While the debate continues between the first two schools, did the third one completely faded out? If...

16 December 2015 5,972 29 View

Could someone recommend me a good recent review about the biodiversity of the most ancient acritarchs (Meso- and Paleoproterozoic)?

I am looking for detailed descriptions of the different types of acritarchs that can be found on Earth before -1 Ga. I am especially interested in the transitional periods, where some types appear...

18 October 2015 8,071 5 View

What are the evolutionary relationships between bryophyte classes?

I mean, from an evolutionary systematics point of view, from which class of chlorophyte did the first bryophyte/cormophyte evolve? Which class comes from which class among bryophytes? And from...

04 April 2015 7,098 15 View