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TENREC TALES
Magazine article from: Muse; 5/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...Madagascar in search of answers to these tenrec mysteries. To understand where tenrecs...have been a major challenge for a tiny tenrec. So the way scientists like Olson see...In fact, it might have been a single tenrec, a pregnant female clinging to some vegetation...
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Out of Africa: What's a Tenrec Doing in Cleveland, Ohio? Small Madagascar Mammal - related to the elephant - comes to Eleanor Armstrong Smith Glasshouse at Cleveland Botanical Garden.
PR Newswire; 5/30/2003; 658 words
; ...which opens to the public on July 15. The tenrec is a small, nocturnal mammal only found...Indian Ocean to the east of Africa.) The tenrec has a thick coat of spines that makes...defense. The original members of the tenrec family developed on isolated parts of...
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They're sequencing a what? Genome scientists go out on a limb of the tree of life.
Magazine article from: Science News; 10/9/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...celebrities, here's a cheat sheet. DISPUTED TENREC Among the nine mammals a added in August...familiar is probably the lesser hedgehog tenrec (Echinops telfairi). It looks like...number of mammalogists have argued that the tenrec is more closely related to the elephant...
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Molecular phylogeny and divergence times of Malagasy tenrecs: Influence of data partitioning and taxon sampling on dating analyses.(Research article)(Report)
Magazine article from: BMC Evolutionary Biology; 3/31/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...Tubulidentata (aardvark) [3, 4]. The tenrec family (Tenrecidae) comprises four subfamilies...include four genera ( Hemicentetes , Tenrec , Setifer , Echinops ), characterized...studies did not include more than five tenrec species [11, 12, 13, 14, 15], while...
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UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS ARLINGTON RESEARCHERS FIND 'SPACE INVADER' DNA INFILTRATED MAMMALIAN GENOMES
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 10/22/2008; 700+ words
; ...brown bat, rats and mice, opossum, tenrec, green anole lizard and African clawed...inhabited different continents, like the tenrec in Africa and the opossum in America...example, they found 100,000 copies in the tenrec genome alone. Thus Feschotte and co...
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Word Wizard.(Features)
Newspaper article from: The Birmingham Post (England); 7/16/2008; 299 words
; ...only one of which is correct. Can you identify the right definition? TENREC 1) A tall grass, related to maize, used in South America as cattle...insectivore, similar to the hedgehog. ANSWER: No 3 is correct. A tenrec is an animal.
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World may die, but hot wheels live forever
Newspaper article from: Winnipeg Free Press; 4/27/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...the title Cadillacs and Dinosaurs, tells of a mechanic, Jack Tenrec, and a scientist, Hannah Dundee, who turn tail on centuries...returning to a surface world re-populated by vicious dinosaurs. Tenrec specializes in rebuilding cars -- 600-year-old Cadillacs...
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IN HONOR OF GOOD WORK, IT'S TIME TO PLAY.(LOCAL)
Newspaper article from: The Virginian Pilot; 8/22/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...petting'' animals, including a Mexican milksnake and a tenrec, a furry insectivore from Madagascar. Any resentment that...center, and others from Tarrallton Elementary School check out a tenrec, a furry insectivore from Madagascar, at the Virginia Zoo...
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Pretty as a picture
Newspaper article from: The Irish Times; 9/19/2009; 700+ words
; ...for most of the day, to find the sun setting at 6pm. Our hosts had left us the use of a small Peugeot, so we set off in search of food. One travel book had mentioned tenrec cari, or curry - a tenrec is rather like a hedgehog - as a local
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Scientists at University of Texas detail research in DNA research.
Newspaper article from: Gene Therapy Weekly; 1/22/2009; 700+ words
; ...prosimian primate), little brown bat (laurasiatherian), tenrec (afrotherian), opossum (marsupial), and two non-mammalian...lineage (nearly 100,000 SPIN copies per haploid genome in tenrec). The process also led to the emergence of a new gene in the...
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