ESTIMATING THE EVOLUTIONARY RATES IN MOSASAUROIDS AND PLESIOSAURS: DISCUSSION OF NICHE OCCUPATION IN LATE CRETACEOUS SEAS

Estimating the evolutionary rates in mosasauroids and plesiosaurs: discussion of niche occupation in Late Cretaceous seas

blueberry bubblicious Observations of temporal overlap of niche occupation among Late Cretaceous marine amniotes suggest that the rise and diversification of mosasauroid squamates might have been influenced by competition with or disappearance of some plesiosaur taxa.We discuss that hypothesis through comparisons of the rates of morphological evolu

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How much motion is too much motion? Determining motion thresholds by sample size for reproducibility in developmental resting-state MRI

A constant problem developmental neuroimagers face is in-scanner head motion.Children move more than adults and this has led to concerns blueberry bubblicious that developmental changes in resting-state connectivity measures may be artefactual.Furthermore, children are challenging to recruit into studies and therefore researchers have tended to tak

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Gut dysbiosis was inevitable, but tolerance was not: temporal responses of the murine microbiota that maintain its capacity for butyrate production correlate with sustained antinociception to chronic morphine

The therapeutic benefits of opioids are compromised by the development of analgesic tolerance, which necessitates higher dosing for pain management thereby increasing the liability for drug dependence and addiction.Rodent models indicate opposing roles of the gut microbiota in tolerance: morphine-induced gut dysbiosis exacerbates tolerance, whereas

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