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Fashion Victim.(leather industry market trends)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
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As Diseases Claim Herds, Leather Prices Skyrocket
THE outbreaks of foot-and-mouth and mad cow diseases in Europe are inflicting pain on Los Angelesarea manufacturers and wholesalers that deal in leather, and that pain will likely hit consumers soon.
Supplies of cowhide have dwindled just as the demand or leather products is higher than ever.
"It's horrible," said Jerry Kohl of Brighton Accessories in the city of Industry. "You worry about the future."
Kohl has seen the price of the leather that his company uses o fashion belts, handbags ...
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Immunolocalization of serotonin in Onychophora argues against segmental ganglia being an ancestral feature of arthropods.(Research article)(Report)
Magazine article from: BMC Evolutionary Biology
; ...Steffen Harzsch [2] Background Onychophora (or velvet worms , Figure 1A and 1B...basal position within the Arthropoda, Onychophora represent a key group for the current...specimen of Metaperipatus blainvillei (Onychophora, Peripatopsidae) from Chile. (B...
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Enigmas overturned by Chinese fossils. (problematic Cambrian fossils now classified in the phylum Onychophora)
Magazine article from: Science News
; ...the most enigmatic of these animals belong to the phylum Onychophora, which in the modern world includes the velvet worms of...as well as some other Cambrian oddities, into the fold of Onychophora. Although this work has attracted the attention of other...
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Researchers from University of Veterinary Medicine, Institute of Physiology publish new studies and findings in the area of life sciences.
Newspaper article from: Biotech Week
; ...glutamatergic neuromuscular innervation of Onychophora: a combined histochemical/electrophysiological...molecular phylogenetic data show that the Onychophora are close relatives of the Arthropoda...glutamatergic neuromuscular innervation of Onychophora: a combined histochemical/electrophysiological...
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Evolution: do the eyes have it?
Magazine article from: Forum on Public Policy: A Journal of the Oxford Round Table
; ...although simple photoreception is almost universally present, no eyes evolved, but eyes evolved later in Annelida, Mollusca, Onychophora, and Chordata. Conway Morris sees eyes as a factor, but not an especially important factor in the rapid evolution in the...
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Evolutionary oddball surfaces in Greenland. (discovery of fossil remains of creature from Cambrian period)
Magazine article from: Science News
; ...as though they have been inflated with a bicycle pump. Ancient lobopods and their modern counter-parts, in the phylum Onychophora, intrigue scientists because they may represent a link between two extremely successful phyla, Annelida (segmented worms...
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A new look at the ventral nerve centre of Sagitta : implications for the phylogenetic position of Chaetognatha (arrow worms) and the evolution of the bilaterian nervous system.(Research)
Magazine article from: Frontiers in Zoology
; ...253; et al. al. [45] combined morphological and 18S rDNA sets in a cladistic analysis which suggested a grouping of Onychophora + (Tardigrada + Arthropoda) to be the sister group of chaetognaths. Giribet et al. [46] also combined 18S rDNA data...
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Cabbage white seems to fly in the face of evolution
Newspaper article from: The Irish Times
; ...forms of caterpillar and butterfly result from an ancient hybridisation between an insect and a genus of velvet worms called Onychophora. "No one knows where caterpillars came from," he has been quoted as saying, but his proposal of molecular research to...
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Research data from University of Stellenbosch update understanding of experimental biology.
Newspaper article from: Life Science Weekly
; ...onychophoran Peripatopsis capensis, a member of a group basal to the arthropods, and by synthesizing the available data on the Onychophora. The rate of carbon dioxide release (V-CO2) at 20 C in P. capensis is 0.043 ml CO(2)h(-1), in keeping with...
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Study data from University of London update understanding of developmental science.
Newspaper article from: Health & Medicine Week
; ...involvement of engrailed and wingless during segmentation in the onychophoran Euperipatoides kanangrensis (Peripatopsidae: Onychophora) (Reid 1996). Development Genes and Evolution, 2009;219(5):249-264). For additional information, contact...
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Mitochondrial gene rearrangements: new paradigm in the evolutionary biology and systematics.(Current Trends)
Magazine article from: Bioinformation
; ...example Arthropoda being monophyletic, and within this Crustacea grouping with Hexapoda to the exclusion of Myriapoda and Onychophora. The 'universal' gene order for living vertebrates (Figure 1b) is not followed by birds [10]. In some recent studies...
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