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Genetic integrity of European wildcats: Variation across biomes mandates geogra...
Matias, Gonçalo; Rosalino, L. M.; Alves, Paulo Célio; Tiesmeyer, Annika; Nowak, Carsten; Ramos, Luana; Steyer, Katharina; Astaras, ChristosHybridisation between domestic and wild taxa can pose severe threats to wildlife conservation, and human-induced hybridisation, often linked to species' introductions and habitat degradation, may promote reproductive opportunities between species for which natural interbreeding would be highly unlikely. Using a biome-specific approach, we examine the effects of a suite of ecological drivers on the European wild...
Protein metabolism and physical fitness are physiological determinants of body ...
Santos, Nuno; Nakamura, Mónia; Rio-Maior, Helena; Álvares, Francisco; Barasona, Jose Ángel; Rosalino, L. M.; Santos, Maria Joao; Santos-Reis, MargaridaThe physiological significance of biometric body condition indices (bBCI) is poorly understood. We hypothesized that bBCI are composite metrics of nutritional physiology, physical fitness and health. To test this hypothesis, we first compared the performance of eight bBCI, using 434 Southern European carnivores from six species as a model system; and then identified, by non-destructive methods, the hematology a...