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1990

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A Model For Understanding The Evolution Of Mammalian Behavior, Raymond P. Coppinger, Charles Kay Smith Dec 1989

A Model For Understanding The Evolution Of Mammalian Behavior, Raymond P. Coppinger, Charles Kay Smith

Charles Kay Smith

Unlike reptiles, who are born with species-specific morphology and behavior that hardly changes as they grow into adults, mammals are born with a class-specific neonatal phase that renders the morphology and behavior of each species different from the physiology and behavior of their species-specific adulthood. Mammals must undergo a transformation phase, called youth, between the neonate and the adult. This youthful metamorphic and meta-behavioral phase is necessary while the mammal is remodeling from sucking milk to munching grass or hunting meat. During its youthful phase a mammal is not simply growing linearly into its adult form and behavior but is …


Genetics Of Interspecific Hybridization In The Triseriatus And Zoosophus Groups Of The Aedes (Protomacleaya) (Diptera: Culicidae)., David B. Taylor Dec 1989

Genetics Of Interspecific Hybridization In The Triseriatus And Zoosophus Groups Of The Aedes (Protomacleaya) (Diptera: Culicidae)., David B. Taylor

David B Taylor

Interspecific hybridization was used to examine the genetics of species divergence and phylogeny of mosquitoes in the Triseriatus and Zoosophus groups of Aedes (Protomacleaya). Aedes zoosophus Dyar & Knab exhibited a relatively high degree of reproductive compatibility with Triseriatus group species. Crosses between A. zoosophus and A. triseriatus (Say) produced fertile female and sterile, intersex, male progeny. Crosses between A. zoosophus females and A. brelandi Zavortink males were sterile with no egg embryonation observed. Crosses between A. zoosophus males and A. brelandi females and reciprocal crosses between A. zoosophus and A. hendersoni (Cockerell) produced sterile, intersex female and male progeny. …