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Reptiles can make great pets
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Editor's Note: This column was written by eight different authors expressing their opinion against the Humane Society of the United States' position against having reptiles as pets.
The authors are: Charles J. Innis VMD, president, Association of Reptilian and Amphibian Veterinarians, Westboro, Mass.; Teresa Bradley, DVM, Belton, Mo.; Mark Mitchell, DVM, PhD., Louisiana State University; Elliott Jacobson, DVM, Ph.D., DACZM, University of Florida; Dale DeNardo, DVM, Ph.D., Arizona State University; Steven Hernandez-Divers BVet Med, DZooMed, MRCVS, University of Georgia; Kevin Wright, DVM, ...
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Sabia on shells: A specialized Pacific-type commensalism in the Caribbean neogene
Magazine article from: Journal of Paleontology
; ...the Caribbean and elsewhere in the western Atlantic than in the Indo-West Pacific, selectively eliminated Sabia and its commensalism from Atlantic reef ecosystems. This case is one of several examples indicating the vulnerability of specialized associations...
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Temple monkeys and health implications of commensalism, Kathmandu, Nepal.(RESEARCH)(infectious diseases research)
Magazine article from: Emerging Infectious Diseases
; The threat of zoonotic transmission of infectious agents at monkey temples highlights the necessity of investigating the prevalence of enzootic infectious agents in these primate populations. Biological samples were collected from 39 rhesus macaques at the Swoyambhu Temple and tested by
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Dreissena polymorpha and Conchophthirus acuminatus: what can we learn from host-commensal relationships.(Report)
Magazine article from: Journal of Shellfish Research
; ...questions relating to symbiosis and commensalism. The acquisition of food by the ciliate...whereas the other remains unaffected (commensalism) or both may benefit (mutualism...questions relating to symbiosis and commensalism. As suggested by Saffo (2001...
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SPIONID BORE HOLE POLYDORICHNUS SUBAPICALIS NEW ICHNOGENUS AND ICHNOSPECIES: A NEW BEHAVIORAL TRACE IN GASTROPOD SHELLS
Magazine article from: Journal of Paleontology
; ...occupation by a hermit crab and for commensalism between polychaetes and hermit crabs...and McDermott (2004) in defining commensalism. A description of a new fossil ichnogenus...and possibly present the history of commensalism between polychaetes and hermit crabs...
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Symbiotic relationships between pseudoscorpions (Arachnida) and packrats (Rodentia).
Magazine article from: Journal of Arachnology
; ...Keywords: Packrats, Neotoma, phoresy, commensalism, mutualism RESUMEN. Treinta y dos...of such interactions: parasitism, commensalism and mutualism. Phoresy is defined...active phoresis is an example of commensalism where the pseudoscorpion benefits from...
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Altitudinal distribution and outdoor occurrence in chromosomal races of the house mouse (Mus musculus domesticus) in central Italy
Magazine article from: Folia Zoologica
; ...populations living indoors and a few Rb populations living outdoors indicates that commensalism is not a necessary condition to become Robertsonian. Moreover, commensalism may only be a by-product of the demographic and ecological conditions that...
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Studies from Ewha Womans University yield new information about ecology.
Newspaper article from: Ecology, Environment & Conservation
; ...between crayfish and branchiobdellids can fluctuate between commensalism and mutualism depending mainly on the environmental fouling...Lee and colleagues published their study in Oecologia (Commensalism or mutualism: conditional outcomes in a branchiobdellid...
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Campylobacter jejuni genes involved in GI tract colonization are identified.
Newspaper article from: Genomics & Genetics Weekly
; ...Microbiology report. "To understand how the bacterium promotes commensalism, we used signature-tagged transposon mutagenesis and identified...focusing on the bacterial requirements necessary for promoting commensalism in a vertebrate host," concluded investigators. Hendrixson...
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Some implications of direct interactions for community species diversity.
Magazine article from: Ecology
; ...other species. They are simply mutualisms (+, +) and commensalisms (+, 0). A few well-known examples include associations...know little about the contribution of these mutualisms and commensalisms to patterns of species diversity (an exception is Hay 1986...
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Friends 4-ever: meet some of nature's strangest pairs.(life science)
Magazine article from: SuperScience
; ...or help the partners. This kind of partnership is called commensalism (kuh-MEN-sul-izm). Now check out why some other...Mutualism--a relationship where both organisms benefit Commensalism--a relationship where one organism benefits, but the...
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