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Evaporative water loss (EWL) occurs principally across the skin (cutaneous water loss, CWL) of terrestrial reptiles (Shoemaker and Nagy, 1977; Mautz, 1982), but EWL also occurs across respiratory passages (respiratory water loss) and the eyes (ocular water loss) (Mautz, 1982). Over 70% of EWL in agamid lizards is from CWL (Eynan and Dmi’el, 1993). The factors determining the rate of CWL are ski...

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It is shown that in the initial phase there are two basic types of similar folding of multiother. The dominant wave length obtained in foldlayered structures, referred to here al folding of ing of the second kind is the same as derived the first and second kind. denending on the orevapr&iously (Biot, 1961) assuming the incompetent lence of over-all flexure or hear. K simple Lory layers to act a...

Short Notes on Leprosy

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THOUSANDS OF SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISMS IN THE CRITICALLY ENDANGERED KEMP’S RIDLEY SEA TURTLE (LEPIDOCHELYS KEMPII) REVEALED BY DOUBLE-DIGEST RESTRICTION-ASSOCIATED DNA SEQUENCING: OPPORTUNITIES FOR PREVIOUSLY ELUSIVE CONSERVATION GENETICS RESEARCH.—Among sea turtles, the Kemp’s ridley is the most endangered and geographically restricted, with its distribution mostly confined to the Gulf o...

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RANGE EXPANSION OF BLACK MANGROVES (AVICENNIA GERMINANS) TO THE MISSISSIPPI BARRIER ISLANDS.—The expansion of the black mangrove (Avicennia germinans) into Gulf of Mexico salt marshes is among the many climateinduced poleward range shifts of tropically associated marine plants and animals that have been documented in recent decades (Perry et al., 2005; Lasram and Mouillot, 2009; Fodrie et al., ...