Building large trees by combining phylogenetic information: a complete phylogeny of the extant Carnivora (Mammalia)

ORP Bininda-Emonds, JL Gittleman, A Purvis - Biological Reviews, 1999 - cambridge.org
One way to build larger, more comprehensive phylogenies is to combine the vast amount of
phylogenetic information already available. We review the two main strategies for …

Ecological niches and geographic distributions (MPB-49)

AT Peterson, J Soberón, RG Pearson… - Ecological niches and …, 2011 - degruyter.com
This book provides a first synthetic view of an emerging area of ecology and biogeography,
linking individual-and population-level processes to geographic distributions and …

Comparative analysis of the domestic cat genome reveals genetic signatures underlying feline biology and domestication

MJ Montague, G Li, B Gandolfi… - Proceedings of the …, 2014 - National Acad Sciences
Little is known about the genetic changes that distinguish domestic cat populations from
their wild progenitors. Here we describe a high-quality domestic cat reference genome …

[KİTAP][B] Environmental enrichment for captive animals

RJ Young - 2013 - books.google.com
Environmental enrichment is a simple and effective means of improving animal welfare in
any species–companion, farm, laboratory and zoo. For many years, it has been a popular …

Co-existence of scimitar-toothed cats, lions and hominins in the European Pleistocene. Implications of the post-cranial anatomy of Homotherium latidens (Owen) for …

M Antón, A Galobart, A Turner - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2005 - Elsevier
Human occupants of Europe shared food resources with a number of larger Carnivora, and
their coexistence with two lion-sized felids, the lion and the scimitar-toothed machairodont …

[KİTAP][B] Sex, size and gender roles: evolutionary studies of sexual size dimorphism

DJ Fairbairn, WU Blanckenhorn, T Székely - 2007 - books.google.com
Why do males and females frequently differ so markedly in body size and morphology? Sex,
Size, and Gender Roles is the first book to investigate the genetic, developmental, and …

The Near Eastern origin of cat domestication

CA Driscoll, M Menotti-Raymond, AL Roca, K Hupe… - Science, 2007 - science.org
The world's domestic cats carry patterns of sequence variation in their genome that reflect a
history of domestication and breed development. A genetic assessment of 979 domestic cats …

Updating the evolutionary history of Carnivora (Mammalia): a new species-level supertree complete with divergence time estimates

K Nyakatura, ORP Bininda-Emonds - BMC biology, 2012 - Springer
Background Although it has proven to be an important foundation for investigations of
carnivoran ecology, biology and evolution, the complete species-level supertree for …

[KİTAP][B] Animal traditions: Behavioural inheritance in evolution

E Avital, E Jablonka - 2000 - books.google.com
Animal Traditions maintains that the assumption that the selection of genes supplies both a
sufficient explanation of the evolution and a true description of its course is, despite its …

[KİTAP][B] The biology and conservation of wild felids

DW Macdonald, AJ Loveridge - 2010 - books.google.com
The editors utilize their 50 years of combined experience in professional engagement with
the behaviour and ecology of wild felids to draw together a unique network of the world's …