[HTML][HTML] Sex Determination in Japanese Quails (Coturnix japonica) Using Geometric Morphometrics of the Skull

T Szara, S Duro, O Gündemir, İ Demircioğlu - Animals, 2022 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary This study aims to determine the sexual dimorphism of quail's skull by
using the geometric morphometric morphometrics and to reveal the shape differences …

Skull variation in different breeds sheep from Balkan countries

O Gündemir, S Duro, T Szara, L Koungoulos… - Annals of Anatomy …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract The Balkan Peninsula region has a very diverse agricultural and livestock tradition,
and almost every country has its own local breed of sheep. Different breeds of sheep and …

[HTML][HTML] Cult, herding, and 'pilgrimage'in the Late Neolithic of north-west Arabia: Excavations at a mustatil east of AlUla

M Kennedy, L Strolin, J McMahon, D Franklin, A Flavel… - Plos one, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Since the 1970s, monumental stone structures now called mustatil have been documented
across Saudi Arabia. However, it was not until 2017 that the first intensive and systematic …

Cryptic diversity and species delimitation in the Xiphinema americanum-group complex (Nematoda: Longidoridae) as inferred from morphometrics and molecular …

A Archidona-Yuste, JA Navas-Cortés… - Zoological Journal of …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
The Xiphinema americanum-group constitutes a complex of about 55 species of
polyphagous plant-ectoparasitic nematodes with a worldwide distribution. This group of …

New evidence of cryptic speciation in the family Longidoridae (Nematoda: Dorylaimida)

R Cai, A Archidona‐Yuste… - Journal of Zoological …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Longidorid nematodes comprise more than 500 species, and Longidorus and Xiphinema
are the most diversified, prevalent, and cosmopolitan genera within plant‐parasitic …

Diversification of Hemidactylus geckos (Squamata: Gekkonidae) in coastal plains and islands of southwestern Arabia with descriptions and complete mitochondrial …

J Šmíd, M Uvizl, M Shobrak, S Busais… - Organisms Diversity & …, 2023 - Springer
The systematic, phylogenetic, and biogeographic aspects of the rich squamate fauna of the
Arabian Peninsula are becoming increasingly well understood. The Arabian members of the …

Differentiation of North African foxes and population genetic dynamics in the desert—insights into the evolutionary history of two sister taxa, Vulpes rueppellii and …

JV Leite, F Álvares, G Velo-Antón, JC Brito… - Organisms Diversity & …, 2015 - Springer
The effects of Pleistocene glaciations on moulding biodiversity have been extensively
investigated within temperate biomes, yet arid ecosystems are largely neglected. A clear …

Comparison of cranium shape in Hamdani and Awassi sheep using dorsal and lateral landmarks

İ Demircioğlu, Y Demiraslan, B Güzel… - Pakistan Journal of …, 2024 - avesis.uludag.edu.tr
The aim of this study is to determine whether or not kinship relations, and breed factors of
Hamdani and Awassi sheep have an effect on the shape by using geometric morphometry …

[HTML][HTML] Discovery of a fossil dwarf antelope outside of Africa and its implications for the late Miocene ecosystem in the northeast margin of the Tibetan Plateau

SQ Wang, J Sun, C Li, SJ Li, J Fu, Q Jiangzuo… - Gondwana …, 2023 - Elsevier
As a typical dwarf antelope, the extant Nesotragus is confined to shrub areas of open
woodlands and forests in Eastern and Central Africa. Molecular phylogenetic …

[HTML][HTML] Wild gazelles of the southern Levant: genetic profiling defines new conservation priorities

L Hadas, D Hermon, A Boldo, G Arieli, R Gafny… - PLoS …, 2015 - journals.plos.org
The mountain gazelle (Gazella gazelle), Dorcas gazelle (Gazella Dorcas) and acacia
gazelle (Gazella arabica acacia) were historically abundant in the southern Levant, and …