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The effects of the heavy metals cadmium and lead on six metabolic and immune-related enzymes in the loach (Misgurnus anguillicaudatus)
Qin Wang, Jiejie Su, Zhiruo Fu, Yujia Hu, Junlong Wei, Tao Pan, Shengzhou Zhang
Comparative anatomy of the thoracic muscles of bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea)
Odair M. Meira, Eduardo A.B. Almeida
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Feeding ecology of scolopendromorphs: integrating a global literature review with Japanese citizen-sourced data
Ryosuke Uno
Multiple approaches to meso- and macroplastics and the food habitat of the green turtle, Chelonia mydas, in the Ogasawara Islands, Japan
Tenzo Fujitani, Shunji Ena, Touma Hosoya, Seongwon Lee, Miyuki Nishijima, Akira Iguchi, Haruka Nakano, Nozomu Iwasaki

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Sizing ocean giants: patterns of intraspecific size variation in marine megafauna
Craig R. McClain, Meghan A. Balk, Mark C. Benfield, Trevor A. Branch, Catherine Chen, James Cosgrove, Alistair D.M. Dove, Leo Gaskins, Rebecca R. Helm, Frederick G. Hochberg, Frank B. Lee, Andrea Marshall, Steven E. McMurray, Caroline Schanche, Shane N. Stone, Andrew D. Thaler
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Interactive bioacoustic playback as a tool for detecting and exploring nonhuman intelligence: “conversing” with an Alaskan humpback whale
Brenda McCowan, Josephine Hubbard, Lisa Walker, Fred Sharpe, Jodi Frediani, Laurance Doyle
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Giant worms chez moi! Hammerhead flatworms (Platyhelminthes, Geoplanidae, Bipalium spp., Diversibipalium spp.) in metropolitan France and overseas French territories
Jean-Lou Justine, Leigh Winsor, Delphine Gey, Pierre Gros, Jessica Thévenot
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Record breaking achievements by spiders and the scientists who study them
Stefano Mammola, Peter Michalik, Eileen A. Hebets, Marco Isaia
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Ontogeny in the tube-crested dinosaur Parasaurolophus (Hadrosauridae) and heterochrony in hadrosaurids
Andrew A. Farke, Derek J. Chok, Annisa Herrero, Brandon Scolieri, Sarah Werning
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The petrosal and bony labyrinth of extinct horses (Perissodactyla, Equidae) and their implications for perissodactyl evolution
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Multiple approaches to meso- and macroplastics and the food habitat of the green turtle, Chelonia mydas, in the Ogasawara Islands, Japan
Tenzo Fujitani, Shunji Ena, Touma Hosoya, Seongwon Lee, Miyuki Nishijima, Akira Iguchi, Haruka Nakano, Nozomu Iwasaki

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Leopard (Panthera pardus) status, distribution, and the research efforts across its range
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