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Effects of fine-scale habitat quality on activity, dormancy, habitat use, and survival after reproduction in Rana dybowskii (Chordata, Amphibia)
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Anatomical, histochemical, and immunohistochemical observations on the gastrointestinal tract of Gallinula chloropus (Aves: Rallidae)
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Selection and validation of reference genes for the normalization of quantitative real-time PCR in different muscle tissues of rabbits
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Complex strategies: an integrative analysis of contests in Siamese fighting fish
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Fishing for iodine: what aquatic foraging by bonobos tells us about human evolution
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Nymphister kronaueri von Beeren & Tishechkin sp. nov., an army ant-associated beetle species (Coleoptera: Histeridae: Haeteriinae) with an exceptional mechanism of phoresy
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LemurFaceID: a face recognition system to facilitate individual identification of lemurs
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Micro-CT imaging of live insects using carbon dioxide gas-induced hypoxia as anesthetic with minimal impact on certain subsequent life history traits
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Rediscovering a forgotten canid species
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