Aiming at learning the association between the gut microbiota and termites with different diet habits and phylogenetic positions, the gut bacteria of three populations for each of the two higher termites (wood-feeding Mironasutitermes shangchengensis and fungus-feeding Odontotermes formosanus) and two wood-feeding lower termites (Tsaitermes ampliceps and Reticulitermes flaviceps) were analyzed ...

We measured rates of respiratory and cutaneous evaporative water loss as a function of air temperature in a small desert bird, the verdin Auriparus flaviceps. Birds were placed in a two-compartment metabolic chamber that separately collected water evaporated from the bird's head and body. Cutaneous and respiratory evaporative water loss, as well as CO2 production, were measured in resting birds...

Abstract The lack of high-quality information on data-poor species can hinder efforts to inform conservation actions via spatial distribution modeling. This is particularly true for tropical birds concern, which ecological studies and assessments their status have received limited funding. Here we use a cost- time-efficient protocol assessing the range-restricted taxa identify priority areas ba...

The extent to which birds select specific microsites during their diurnal activity and the thermal consequences of microsite selection during the day has received scant attention (DeWoskin 1980; Walsberg 1985, 1993: Weathers and Sullivan 1989). Most research has focused on microsite selection and the physiological consequences of occupancy of specific sites such as nocturnal roosts or nest site...

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Zug, George R. The Distribution and Patterns of the Major Arteries of the Iguanids and Comments on the Intergeneric Relationships of Iguanids (Reptilia: Lacertilia). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, 83: 1-23. 1971.—The spatial arrangement of the major arteries, i.e., systemic arches, carotid arches and major branches, subclavians, coeliac, and mesenteries, are described for 42 genera of ig...