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84 relations: Aethia, Alloenzyme, Ancient murrelet, Atlantic puffin, Auk, Biodiversity, Bird, Bird colony, Black guillemot, BMC Evolutionary Biology, Brachyramphus, British Birds (magazine), California, Carl Linnaeus, Cassin's auklet, Cepphus, Charadriiformes, Common murre, Convergent evolution, Cormorant, Craveri's murrelet, Crested auklet, Cytochrome b, Ecology, Eocene, Evolutionary pressure, Extinction, Fossil, Genus, Glacier, Great auk, Guadalupe murrelet, Guillemot, Horned puffin, Hydrotherikornis, Japanese murrelet, Kittlitz's murrelet, Kiviak, Krill, Lari, Least auklet, Little auk, Long-billed murrelet, Mancallinae, Marbled murrelet, Maryland, Miocene, Mitochondrial DNA, Molecular Biology and Evolution, Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, ..., Morphology (biology), Nucleic acid sequence, Oligocene, Paleobiology (journal), Parakeet auklet, Penguin, Petralca, Philopatry, Pigeon guillemot, Pleistocene, Pliocene, Plover, Puffin, Razorbill, Rhinoceros auklet, Scripps's murrelet, Sexual dimorphism, Skua, Spectacled guillemot, Synthliboramphus, The Auk, Thick-billed murre, Tradeoffs for locomotion in air and water, Tufted puffin, Upwelling, Uria, Wader, Whiskered auklet, William Elford Leach, Wing, Xantus's murrelet, Year, ZooKeys, 10th edition of Systema Naturae. Expand index (34 more) »
Aethia
Aethia is a genus of four small (85-300g) auklets endemic to the North Pacific Ocean, Bering Sea and Sea of Okhotsk and among some of North America's most abundant seabirds.
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Alloenzyme
Alloenzymes (or also called allozymes) are variant forms of an enzyme which differs structurally but not functionally from other allozymes coded for by different alleles at the same locus.
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Ancient murrelet
The ancient murrelet (Synthliboramphus antiquus) is a bird in the auk family.
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Atlantic puffin
The Atlantic puffin (Fratercula arctica), also known as the common puffin, is a species of seabird in the auk family.
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Auk
An auk or alcid is a bird of the family Alcidae in the order Charadriiformes.
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Biodiversity
Biodiversity, a portmanteau of biological (life) and diversity, generally refers to the variety and variability of life on Earth.
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Bird
Birds, also known as Aves, are a group of endothermic vertebrates, characterised by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chambered heart, and a strong yet lightweight skeleton.
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Bird colony
A bird colony is a large congregation of individuals of one or more species of bird that nest or roost in proximity at a particular location.
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Black guillemot
The black guillemot or tystie (Cepphus grylle) is a medium-sized alcid.
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BMC Evolutionary Biology
BMC Evolutionary Biology is a peer-reviewed open access scientific journal covering all fields of evolutionary biology, including phylogenetics and palaeontology.
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Brachyramphus
Brachyramphus is a small genus of seabirds from the North Pacific.
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British Birds (magazine)
British Birds is a monthly ornithology magazine that was established in 1907.
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California
California is a state in the Pacific Region of the United States.
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Carl Linnaeus
Carl Linnaeus (23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after his ennoblement as Carl von LinnéBlunt (2004), p. 171.
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Cassin's auklet
Cassin’s auklet (Ptychoramphus aleuticus) is a small, chunky seabird that ranges widely in the North Pacific.
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Cepphus
Cepphus is a genus of seabirds in the auk family also referred to as true guillemots or, in North America, simply as guillemots.
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Charadriiformes
Charadriiformes is a diverse order of small to medium-large birds.
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Common murre
The common murre or common guillemot (Uria aalge) is a large auk.
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Convergent evolution
Convergent evolution is the independent evolution of similar features in species of different lineages.
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Cormorant
Phalacrocoracidae is a family of approximately 40 species of aquatic birds commonly known as cormorants and shags.
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Craveri's murrelet
Craveri’s murrelet (Synthliboramphus craveri) is a small seabird which breeds on offshore islands in both the Pacific Ocean and the Gulf of California off the Baja peninsula of Mexico.
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Crested auklet
The crested auklet (Aethia cristatella) is a small seabird of the family Alcidae, distributed throughout the northern Pacific and the Bering Sea.
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Cytochrome b
Cytochrome b is a protein found in the mitochondria of eukaryotic cells.
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Ecology
Ecology (from οἶκος, "house", or "environment"; -λογία, "study of") is the branch of biology which studies the interactions among organisms and their environment.
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Eocene
The Eocene Epoch, lasting from, is a major division of the geologic timescale and the second epoch of the Paleogene Period in the Cenozoic Era.
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Evolutionary pressure
Any cause that reduces reproductive success in a portion of a population potentially exerts evolutionary pressure, selective pressure or selection pressure.
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Extinction
In biology, extinction is the termination of an organism or of a group of organisms (taxon), normally a species.
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Fossil
A fossil (from Classical Latin fossilis; literally, "obtained by digging") is any preserved remains, impression, or trace of any once-living thing from a past geological age.
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Genus
A genus (genera) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, as well as viruses, in biology.
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Glacier
A glacier is a persistent body of dense ice that is constantly moving under its own weight; it forms where the accumulation of snow exceeds its ablation (melting and sublimation) over many years, often centuries.
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Great auk
The great auk (Pinguinus impennis) is a species of flightless alcid that became extinct in the mid-19th century.
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Guadalupe murrelet
The Guadalupe murrelet (Synthliboramphus hypoleucus) is a small seabird found in the California Current system in the Pacific Ocean.
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Guillemot
Guillemots is the common name for several species of seabird in the auk family (part of the order Charadriiformes).
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Horned puffin
The horned puffin (Fratercula corniculata) is an auk, similar in appearance to the Atlantic puffin.
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Hydrotherikornis
Hydrotherikornis oregonus is an extinct species of auk.
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Japanese murrelet
The Japanese murrelet or crested murrelet (Synthliboramphus wumizusume) is a small bird that inhabits rocky islets and reefs in the warm waters of Japan and southern Korea.
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Kittlitz's murrelet
The Kittlitz's murrelet, (Brachyramphus brevirostris) is a small alcid found in the waters off Alaska and Eastern Siberia.
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Kiviak
Kiviak or kiviaq is a traditional wintertime Inuit food from Greenland that is made of little auks (Alle alle) fermented in a seal skin.
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Krill
Krill are small crustaceans of the order Euphausiacea, and are found in all the world's oceans.
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Lari
The suborder Lari is the part of the order Charadriiformes which includes the gulls, terns, skuas and skimmers, with the waders and snipes making up the rest of the order.
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Least auklet
The least auklet (Aethia pusilla) is a seabird and the smallest species of auk.
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Little auk
The little auk or dovekie (Alle alle) is a small auk, the only member of the genus Alle.
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Long-billed murrelet
The long-billed murrelet (Brachyramphus perdix) is a small seabird from the North Pacific.
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Mancallinae
The Mancallinae were a group of prehistoric flightless auk relatives that lived on the Pacific coast of today's California and Mexico from the late Miocene epoch to the early Pleistocene (ranging from at least 7.4 million to 470 thousand years ago).
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Marbled murrelet
The marbled murrelet (Brachyramphus marmoratus) is a small seabird from the North Pacific.
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Maryland
Maryland is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States, bordering Virginia, West Virginia, and Washington, D.C. to its south and west; Pennsylvania to its north; and Delaware to its east.
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Miocene
The Miocene is the first geological epoch of the Neogene Period and extends from about (Ma).
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Mitochondrial DNA
Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA or mDNA) is the DNA located in mitochondria, cellular organelles within eukaryotic cells that convert chemical energy from food into a form that cells can use, adenosine triphosphate (ATP).
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Molecular Biology and Evolution
Molecular Biology and Evolution is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution.
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Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution
Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution is a peer-reviewed scientific journal of evolutionary biology and phylogenetics.
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Morphology (biology)
Morphology is a branch of biology dealing with the study of the form and structure of organisms and their specific structural features.
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Nucleic acid sequence
A nucleic acid sequence is a succession of letters that indicate the order of nucleotides forming alleles within a DNA (using GACT) or RNA (GACU) molecule.
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Oligocene
The Oligocene is a geologic epoch of the Paleogene Period and extends from about 33.9 million to 23 million years before the present (to). As with other older geologic periods, the rock beds that define the epoch are well identified but the exact dates of the start and end of the epoch are slightly uncertain.
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Paleobiology (journal)
Paleobiology is a scientific journal promoting the integration of biology and conventional paleontology, with emphasis placed on biological or paleobiological processes and patterns.
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Parakeet auklet
The parakeet auklet (Aethia psittacula) is a small seabird of the North Pacific.
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Penguin
Penguins (order Sphenisciformes, family Spheniscidae) are a group of aquatic, flightless birds.
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Petralca
Petralca is an extinct genus of loon found in Oligocene and Miocene deposits of Austria.
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Philopatry
Philopatry is the tendency of an organism to stay in or habitually return to a particular area.
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Pigeon guillemot
The pigeon guillemot (Cepphus columba) is a species of bird in the auk family, Alcidae.
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Pleistocene
The Pleistocene (often colloquially referred to as the Ice Age) is the geological epoch which lasted from about 2,588,000 to 11,700 years ago, spanning the world's most recent period of repeated glaciations.
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Pliocene
The Pliocene (also Pleiocene) Epoch is the epoch in the geologic timescale that extends from 5.333 million to 2.58 million years BP.
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Plover
Plovers are a widely distributed group of wading birds belonging to the subfamily Charadriinae.
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Puffin
Puffins are any of three small species of alcids (auks) in the bird genus Fratercula with a brightly coloured beak during the breeding season.
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Razorbill
The razorbill (Alca torda) is a colonial seabird that comes to land only to breed.
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Rhinoceros auklet
The rhinoceros auklet (Cerorhinca monocerata) is a seabird and a close relative of the puffins.
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Scripps's murrelet
Scripps's murrelet (Synthliboramphus scrippsi) is a small seabird found in the California Current system in the Pacific Ocean.
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Sexual dimorphism
Sexual dimorphism is the condition where the two sexes of the same species exhibit different characteristics beyond the differences in their sexual organs.
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Skua
The skuas are a group of seabirds with about seven species forming the family Stercorariidae and the genus Stercorarius.
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Spectacled guillemot
The spectacled guillemot or sooty guillemot (Cepphus carbo) is a seabird in the auk family.
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Synthliboramphus
Synthliboramphus is a small genus of seabirds in the auk family from the North Pacific.
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The Auk
The Auk: Ornithological Advances is a weekly peer-reviewed scientific journal and the official publication of the American Ornithological Society (AOS).
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Thick-billed murre
The thick-billed murre or Brünnich's guillemot (Uria lomvia) is a bird in the auk family (Alcidae).
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Tradeoffs for locomotion in air and water
Certain species of fish and birds are able to locomote in both air and water, two fluid media with very different properties.
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Tufted puffin
The tufted puffin (Fratercula cirrhata), also known as crested puffin, is a relatively abundant medium-sized pelagic seabird in the auk family (Alcidae) found throughout the North Pacific Ocean.
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Upwelling
Upwelling is an oceanographic phenomenon that involves wind-driven motion of dense, cooler, and usually nutrient-rich water towards the ocean surface, replacing the warmer, usually nutrient-depleted surface water.
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Uria
Uria is a genus of seabirds in the auk family known in Britain as guillemots, in most of North America as murres, and in Newfoundland and Labrador as turr.
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Wader
Waders are birds commonly found along shorelines and mudflats that wade in order to forage for food (such as insects or crustaceans) in the mud or sand.
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Whiskered auklet
The whiskered auklet (Aethia pygmaea) is a small seabird of the auk family.
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William Elford Leach
William Elford Leach, MD, FRS (2 February 1791 – 25 August 1836) was an English zoologist and marine biologist.
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Wing
A wing is a type of fin that produces lift, while moving through air or some other fluid.
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Xantus's murrelet
Xantus's murrelet has been split into two species.
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Year
A year is the orbital period of the Earth moving in its orbit around the Sun.
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ZooKeys
ZooKeys is a peer-reviewed open access scientific journal covering zoological taxonomy, phylogeny, and biogeography.
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10th edition of Systema Naturae
The 10th edition of Systema Naturae is a book written by Carl Linnaeus and published in two volumes in 1758 and 1759, which marks the starting point of zoological nomenclature.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auk
