Browsing by Author "Labra Lillo, María Antonieta"
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(Springer, 2015)In a predator-prey interaction, the fitnesses of the predator and the prey depend on their abilities to recognize each other, a process that may involve different sensory modalities. Squamate reptiles are highly dependent ...
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(BLACKWELL, 2006-10)When an individual faces the risk of a conflict, its ability to make 'correct' decisions is crucial to its fitness. Research on decision making has focused mainly on visual and acoustic signals, while chemical signals have ...
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(WILEY-BLACKWELL, 2010-12)The parietal, or third, eye is a photosensory organ situated in the middle of the skull of many lizards. Despite many hypotheses, its exact ecological functions are still unclear. Studies have compared the presence and ...
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(Elsevier, 2015)Philodryas chamissonis is a rear-fanged snake endemic to Chile. Its bite produces mild to moderate symptoms with proteolytic and anti-coagulant effects. Presently, the composition of the venom, as well as, the biochemical ...
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(ACADEMIC PRESS LTD ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD, 2004-09)Although many factors have been shown to influence the evolution of species recognition signals in a wide variety of taxa, it is difficult to draw general conclusions because of fundamental differences in the morphologies ...
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(Elsevier, 2014)Mitochondrial light strand DNA replication is initiated at light strand replication origins (OLs), short stem-loop hairpins formed by the heavy strand DNA. OL-like secondary structures are also formed by heavy strand ...
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(Universidad de Chile, 1997)
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(BLACKWELL VERLAG GMBH, 2004-08)The ability to assess and respond to predation risk is a strong selective force. Detection of predators is carried out by one or more sensory modalities, but the use of chemoreception has significant advantages. This study ...
