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Dermatophytoses in domesticated animals.

Dermatophytes are among the most frequent causes of ringworm infections in domesticated animals. They are known to serve as reservoirs of the zoophilic dermatophytes and these infections have important zoonotic implication. In Nigeria and probably West Africa, there are not many studies on the incidence of dermatophytosis in domesticated animals. In the current study, 538 domesticated animals w...

Lateralized Behavior in Domesticated Dogs

ateralization, generally defined as the preferential use of one side of the body over another, is a result of certain processes being more highly developed in one hemisphere of the brain versus the other. Numerous scientific studies suggest that lateralization is most likely a defining feature in all mammals and perhaps all vertebrates. This study tested for lateralization in vertebrates by exa...

The Romance of Domesticated Plants

Avian genetic diversity: Domesticated species

GENETIC DIVERSITY IS CONSIDERED crucial to the continued survival of a species, be it wild or domestic. Such within-species diversity has been the raw material of agriculturists over millennia. In response to selective breeding and the differential survival of less fit animals, preferred traits have been accentuated and clustered to produce distinct breeds and varieties of the modern domesticat...

How People Domesticated Amazonian Forests

1 Programa de Pós-graduação em Ecologia, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Manaus, Brazil, 2 Forest Ecology and Forest Management Group, Wageningen University & Research, Wageningen, Netherlands, 3 Departamento de Biologia Vegetal, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Campinas, Brazil, 4 Programa de Pós-graduação em Botânica, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Am...