The Nine-banded Armadillo (Dasypus novemcinctus) by Joseph M. Schaefer, Mark E. Hostetler

“… Armadillos are prehistoric-looking animals that belong to a family of mammals found primarily in Central and South America. …”
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Prostaglandin Receptor Signaling in Disease by Toshiyuki Matsuoka, Shuh Narumiya

“…There are eight types of the prostanoid receptors conserved in mammals from mouse to human. They are the PGD receptor (DP), four subtypes of the PGE receptor (EP1, EP2, EP3, and EP4), the PGF receptor (FP), PGI receptor (IP), and TXA receptor (TP). …”
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Coleopteran Antimicrobial Peptides: Prospects for Clinical Applications by Monde Ntwasa, Akira Goto, Shoichiro Kurata

“…Recently, the complete genome sequence of Tribolium was published, boosting research on coleopteran immunity and leading to the identification of Tribolium AMPs that are shared by Drosophila and mammals, as well as other AMPs that are unique. AMPs have potential applicability in the development of vaccines. …”
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An Introduction to Harvest Tags for Marine Recreational Fisheries by Edward Camp, Zachary Siders, Andrew Ropicki, Frank Asche

“…This is especially a problem for Florida reef fish species that live at depths and habitats where barotrauma increases mortality and depredation by larger fish, sharks, or marine mammals increases it further. Harvest (or trip) tags could reduce overharvest, lower discard mortality, and allow anglers more freedom to choose when to fish. …”
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Metabolic activities are selective modulators for individual segmentation clock processes by Mitsuhiro Matsuda, Jorge Lázaro, Miki Ebisuya

“…While the segmentation clock tempo scales with the kinetics of gene expression and degradation processes of the core clock gene Hes7 across mammals, the coordination of these processes remains unclear. …”
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Figure-ground segmentation based on motion in the archerfish by Svetlana Volotsky, Ronen Segev

“…Abstract Figure-ground segmentation is a fundamental process in visual perception that involves separating visual stimuli into distinct meaningful objects and their surrounding context, thus allowing the brain to interpret and understand complex visual scenes. Mammals exhibit varying figure-ground segmentation capabilities, ranging from primates that can perform well on figure-ground segmentation tasks to rodents that perform poorly. …”
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Phospholipase D, a Novel Therapeutic Target Contributes to the Pathogenesis of Neurodegenerative and Neuroimmune Diseases by Weiwei Zhang, Feiqi Zhu, Jie Zhu, Kangding Liu

“…Phospholipase D (PLD) is an enzyme that consists of six isoforms (PLD1–PLD6) and has been discovered in different organisms including bacteria, viruses, plants, and mammals. PLD is involved in regulating a wide range of nerve cells’ physiological processes, such as cytoskeleton modulation, proliferation/growth, vesicle trafficking, morphogenesis, and development. …”
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An Early Oligocene Fossil Lagerstätten from the Lacustrine Deposits of the Luberon UNESCO Global Geopark by Pauline Coster, Stephane Legal

“…The fossils include plants, insects, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals from ancient lacustrine-terrestrial ecosystems of the early Oligocene. …”
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Brown Adipose Tissue Growth and Development by Michael E. Symonds

“…UCP1 is only present in small amounts in the fetus and in precocious mammals, such as sheep and humans; it is rapidly activated around the time of birth following the substantial rise in endocrine stimulatory factors. …”
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Stress, nutrients and genotype: understanding and managing asparagine accumulation in wheat grain by Joseph Oddy, Sarah Raffan, Mark D. Wilkinson, J. Stephen Elmore, Nigel G. Halford

“…Comparisons with other plant species, yeast, and mammals are drawn in order to gain deeper insight into the conserved biology underlying asparagine accumulation. …”
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Neonicotinoid Analysis in Sunflower (Helianthus annuus) Honey Samples Collected around Tekirdag in Turkey by Nurullah Ozdemir, Mustafa Necati Muz

“…In recent years, the widespread use of neonicotinoids in agricultural areas has caused environmental pollution due to its lower toxicity to mammals. Honey bees, which are considered as biological indicators of environmental pollution, can carry these pollutants to the hives. …”
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Placenta-Specific Protein 1 Is Conserved throughout the Placentalia under Purifying Selection by Eric J. Devor

“…Placental mammals (Placentalia) are a very successful group that, today, comprise 94% of all mammalian species. …”
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Protein-Mediated Interactions of Pancreatic Islet Cells by Paolo Meda

“…The islets of Langerhans collectively form the endocrine pancreas, the organ that is soley responsible for insulin secretion in mammals, and which plays a prominent role in the control of circulating glucose and metabolism. …”
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The Case of the Disappearing Spindle Burst by Alexandre Tiriac, Mark S. Blumberg

“…Sleep spindles are brief cortical oscillations at 10–15 Hz that occur predominantly during non-REM (quiet) sleep in adult mammals and are thought to contribute to learning and memory. …”
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Histocompatibility and Hematopoietic Transplantation in the Zebrafish by Jill L. O. de Jong, Leonard I. Zon

“…The zebrafish has proven to be an excellent model for human disease, particularly hematopoietic diseases, since these fish make similar types of blood cells as humans and other mammals. The genetic program that regulates the development and differentiation of hematopoietic cells is highly conserved. …”
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Clumsiness and Disturbed Cerebellar Development: Insights From Animal Experiments by Albert Gramsbergen

“…The cerebellar cortex in mammals develops late in neuro-ontogeny and an extrapolation from experimental results indicates that in the human the proliferation of the granule cells and the development of circuitry in the cerebellar cortex starts only in the last trimester of pregnancy and lasts until beyond the first birthday. …”
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Are we serologically prepared against an avian influenza pandemic and could seasonal flu vaccines help us? by Iván Sanz-Muñoz, Javier Sánchez-Martínez, Carla Rodríguez-Crespo, Corina S. Concha-Santos, Marta Hernández, Silvia Rojo-Rello, Marta Domínguez-Gil, Ahmed Mostafa, Luis Martinez-Sobrido, Jose M. Eiros, Aitor Nogales

“…ABSTRACT The current situation with H5N1 highly pathogenic avian influenza virus (HPAI) is causing a worldwide concern due to multiple outbreaks in wild birds, poultry, and mammals. Moreover, multiple zoonotic infections in humans have been reported. …”
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Immunomorphologic Manifestations in Mice Liver Infected with Influenza A/H5N1, A/Goose/Krasnoozerskoye/627/05 Strain by Oxana V. Potapova, Tatyana V. Sharkova, Vyacheslav A. Shkurupiy, Alexander M. Shestopalov

“…Highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 (HPAI H5N1) viruses can infect mammals, including humans, causing severe systemic disease with the inhibition of the immune system and a high mortality rate. …”
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Distinct patterns of prion strain deposition and toxicity in a novel whole brain organotypic slice culture system by Hailey Pineau, Valerie L. Sim

“…Abstract Prion diseases are fatal transmissible neurodegenerative diseases that affect many mammals, including humans, caused by the templated misfolding of the prion protein. …”
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Effects of Spine Motion on Foot Slip in Quadruped Bounding by Dongliang Chen, Ningjie Li, Guifang Liu, Lei Chen, Yongyuan Wang, Chong Liu, Bo Zhuang

“…First, three simplified sagittal plane models of quadruped mammals were studied in symmetric bounding. The first model’s trunk allowed no relative motion, the second model allowed only trunk bend, and the third model allowed both bend and translation. …”
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