Animals having a vertebral column, members of the phylum Chordata, subphylum Craniata comprising mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes. | Contact experts in Vertebrates to get answers
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There is too much discrepency among the textbooks of vertebrate embryology. There are two interpretations of the term "Prechordal plate" in different books: It is the cranial most part of the...
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I found this (very pretty) algae (see picture) in a bore-fed and suburban catchment run-off fed, human made lake (Newport Lakes) in Newport, Victoria, Australia. I'm a vertebrate zoologist with a...
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I broadly understand the scale at which Zoonoses develop, but would be deeply curious to understand if there is a similar risk of entomopathogenic diseases jumping the biological border to...
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Hi all, I am currently working on several newly assembled draft genomes ( which are at contig level). I would like to perform scaffolding using a reference based tool for my genomes. It would be...
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Hi all, I'm trying to use PWMs for a transcription factor of interest to identify conserved binding sites in upstream promoters (up to 5 kb from TSS), across several vertebrate species. My model...
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Nobody is in favor of extinction and all countries have laws intended to reduce extinction risks for native species of plants and animals (although never explicitly microbes, as far as I know)....
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I need a methodology for the treatment of fossils of vertebrates recovered in submerged caves, exclusively drying to finally consolidate them
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I am looking for a protocol that would give me some idea about the diet of the carrion beetles and probably some other species of beetles. I do not need to know exact species they ate, but only...
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Spinal fusion is commonly used procedure to treat Chronic Low Back Pain. I am looking for suggestions in clinical practice to assess the outcomes of vertebral fusion
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I am aware of the "Search Motif" tool in EPD, but am wondering if there is a way to search / automate the process rather than manually clicking through motifs listed in "Transcription Factor...
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Every reference to perforin in lymphocytes talks about perforin 1. Has any one demonstrated the continued presence of perforin 2, the original perforin, in vertebrate lymphocytes?
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Swammerdam (17th century) stimulated a muscle in a fluid-filled jar with a small-bore tube attached, measuring a slight decrease in volume, disproving the "balloonist" theory of muscle...
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Is anyone aware of examples (successful or unsuccessful) of the use of vertebrates like raptors and snakes in ecological restoration efforts? The idea would be to erect structures that promote...
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What kind of materials do you use in bone identification ? I`m working on Late Miocene continental vertebrates and I`ve got some small problems on postcranial bones.
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