TESTING THE FORM-FUNCTION PARADIGM: BODY SHAPE CORRELATES WITH KINEMATICS BUT NOT ENERGETICS IN SELECTIVELY-BRED BIRDS

Testing the form-function paradigm: body shape correlates with kinematics but not energetics in selectively-bred birds

Abstract A central concept of evolutionary biology, supported by broad scale allometric analyses, asserts that changing morphology should induce downstream changes in locomotor kinematics and energetics, and by inference selective fitness.However, if these mechanistic Salami relationships exist at local intraspecific scales, where they could provid

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Evaluation of wound healing properties of bioactive aqueous fraction from Moringa oleifera Lam on experimentally induced diabetic animal model

Abubakar Amali Muhammad,1 Palanisamy Arulselvan,1 Cheah Pike See,2 Farida Abas,3 Sharida Fakurazi1,2 1Laboratory of Vaccine and Immunotherapeutics, Institute of Bioscience, 2Unit of Anatomy, Department of Human Anatomy, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, 3Department of Food Science, Faculty of Food Science and Technology, Universiti Putra Mal

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Data Management Support for the SPURS Atlantic Field Campaign

We developed the data management system for the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration-sponsored Salinity Processes in the Upper-ocean Regional Study Leave in conditioner (SPURS) Atlantic field campaign (SPURS-1).Data management support means more than simply collecting and archiving static data Elephants sets.It involves a complex mixtur

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Selected methods of rehabilitation in systemic sclerosis

Systemic sclerosis is a chronic connective tissue disease characterized by microvascular abnormalities, immune disturbances and progressive fibrosis of the skin and internal organs.Skin involvement may result in contractures, leading to marked loss of hand mobility, adversely affecting the performance of daily activities and decreasing Shiny Satin

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