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82 relations: Baiji, BBC, Blesmol, Bolikhamsai Province, Chut language, Clade, Coelacanth, Cytochrome b, Dassie rat, Dân Hoá, Diatomyidae, Duck, Emeritus, Evolutionarily significant unit, Family (biology), Florida State University, Genus, Goeldi's marmoset, Greek language, Gundi, Hóa Hợp, Hóa Sơn, Herbivore, Hin Namno, Hystricognathi, Infraorbital foramen, Insect, Karst, Khammouane Province, Kitti's hog-nosed bat, Lao alphabet, Laos, Lazarus taxon, Leaf, Leaf muntjac, Limestone, Living fossil, Long branch attraction, Lutetian, Mammal, Mary R. Dawson, Microbiotheriidae, Minh Hóa District, Miocene, Mitochondrial DNA, Monito del monte, Monotypic taxon, MT-RNR1, National Geographic Society, Nocturnality, ..., Nucleic acid sequence, Oligocene, Orbit (anatomy), Pellet (ornithology), Phou Hin Poun National Biodiversity Conservation Area, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Poaceae, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Pterygoid fossa, Quảng Bình Province, Rat, Rodent, Rural commune (Vietnam), Saola, Science (journal), Seed, Skull, Slate gray, Species, Species complex, Squirrel, Tail, Thakhek, Thượng Hoá, Trung Hoá, Vietic languages, Vietnam, Whiskers, Wildlife Conservation Society, Year, Zagros Mountains mouse-like hamster, Zygomasseteric system. Expand index (32 more) »
Baiji
The baiji (Lipotes vexillifer, Lipotes meaning "left behind", vexillifer "flag bearer") is a functionally extinct species of freshwater dolphin formerly found only in the Yangtze River in China.
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BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster.
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Blesmol
The blesmols, also known as mole-rats, or African mole-rats, are burrowing rodents of the family Bathyergidae.
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Bolikhamsai Province
Bolikhamsai (also Borikhamxay, Lao ບໍລິຄໍາໄຊ) is a province of Laos, located in the middle of the country.
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Chut language
Chut (Chứt, Cheut) or Ruc-Sach is a dialect cluster spoken by the Chứt people of Vietnam, with a smaller population of some 450 speakers in neighbouring Laos (in Khammouane Province).
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Clade
A clade (from κλάδος, klados, "branch"), also known as monophyletic group, is a group of organisms that consists of a common ancestor and all its lineal descendants, and represents a single "branch" on the "tree of life".
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Coelacanth
The coelacanths constitute a now rare order of fish that includes two extant species in the genus Latimeria: the West Indian Ocean coelacanth (Latimeria chalumnae) primarily found near the Comoro Islands off the east coast of Africa and the Indonesian coelacanth (Latimeria menadoensis).
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Cytochrome b
Cytochrome b is a protein found in the mitochondria of eukaryotic cells.
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Dassie rat
The dassie rat (Petromus typicus) is an African rodent found among rocky outcroppings.
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Dân Hoá
Dân Hoá is a commune (xã) and village in Minh Hóa District, Quảng Bình Province, in Vietnam.
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Diatomyidae
The rodent family Diatomyidae, found in Asia, is represented by a single known living species, Laonastes aenigmamus.
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Duck
Duck is the common name for a large number of species in the waterfowl family Anatidae, which also includes swans and geese.
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Emeritus
Emeritus, in its current usage, is an adjective used to designate a retired professor, pastor, bishop, pope, director, president, prime minister, or other person.
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Evolutionarily significant unit
An evolutionarily significant unit (ESU) is a population of organisms that is considered distinct for purposes of conservation.
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Family (biology)
In biological classification, family (familia, plural familiae) is one of the eight major taxonomic ranks; it is classified between order and genus.
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Florida State University
Florida State University (Florida State or FSU) is a public space-grant and sea-grant research university with its primary campus on a campus in Tallahassee, Florida.
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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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Goeldi's marmoset
The Goeldi's marmoset or Goeldi's monkey (Callimico goeldii) is a small, South American New World monkey that lives in the upper Amazon basin region of Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru.
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Greek language
Greek (Modern Greek: ελληνικά, elliniká, "Greek", ελληνική γλώσσα, ellinikí glóssa, "Greek language") is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages, native to Greece and other parts of the Eastern Mediterranean and the Black Sea.
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Gundi
Gundis or comb rats (family Ctenodactylidae) are a group of small, stocky rodents found in Africa.
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Hóa Hợp
Hóa Hợp is a commune (xã) and village in Minh Hóa District, Quảng Bình Province, in Vietnam.
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Hóa Sơn
Hóa Sơn is a commune (xã) and village in Minh Hóa District, Quảng Bình Province, in Vietnam.
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Herbivore
A herbivore is an animal anatomically and physiologically adapted to eating plant material, for example foliage, for the main component of its diet.
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Hin Namno
Hin Namno or Hin Namno National Biodiversity Conservation Area is a nature reserve in Khammouane Province, Laos.
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Hystricognathi
The Hystricognathi are an infraorder of rodents, distinguished from other rodents by the bone structure of their skulls.
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Infraorbital foramen
In human anatomy, the infraorbital foramen is an opening in the maxillary bone of the skull located below the infraorbital margin of the orbit.
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Insect
Insects or Insecta (from Latin insectum) are hexapod invertebrates and the largest group within the arthropod phylum.
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Karst
Karst is a topography formed from the dissolution of soluble rocks such as limestone, dolomite, and gypsum.
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Khammouane Province
Khammouane or Khammouan (Lao: ຄໍາມ່ວນ) is a province of Laos, located in the center of the country.
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Kitti's hog-nosed bat
Kitti's hog-nosed bat (Craseonycteris thonglongyai), also known as the bumblebee bat, is a vulnerable species of bat and the only extant member of the family Craseonycteridae.
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Lao alphabet
Lao script or Akson Lao (Lao: ອັກສອນລາວ) is the primary script used to write the Lao language and other minority languages in Laos.
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Laos
Laos (ລາວ,, Lāo; Laos), officially the Lao People's Democratic Republic (Lao: ສາທາລະນະລັດ ປະຊາທິປະໄຕ ປະຊາຊົນລາວ, Sathalanalat Paxathipatai Paxaxon Lao; République démocratique populaire lao), commonly referred to by its colloquial name of Muang Lao (Lao: ເມືອງລາວ, Muang Lao), is a landlocked country in the heart of the Indochinese peninsula of Mainland Southeast Asia, bordered by Myanmar (Burma) and China to the northwest, Vietnam to the east, Cambodia to the southwest and Thailand to the west and southwest.
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Lazarus taxon
In paleontology, a Lazarus taxon (plural taxa) is a taxon that disappears for one or more periods from the fossil record, only to appear again later.
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Leaf
A leaf is an organ of a vascular plant and is the principal lateral appendage of the stem.
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Leaf muntjac
The leaf muntjac, leaf deer or Putao muntjac (Muntiacus putaoensis) is a small species of muntjac.
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Limestone
Limestone is a sedimentary rock, composed mainly of skeletal fragments of marine organisms such as coral, forams and molluscs.
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Living fossil
A living fossil is an extant taxon that closely resembles organisms otherwise known only from the fossil record.
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Long branch attraction
In phylogenetics, long branch attraction (LBA) is a form of systematic error whereby distantly related lineages are incorrectly inferred to be closely related.
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Lutetian
The Lutetian is, in the geologic timescale, a stage or age in the Eocene.
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Mammal
Mammals are the vertebrates within the class Mammalia (from Latin mamma "breast"), a clade of endothermic amniotes distinguished from reptiles (including birds) by the possession of a neocortex (a region of the brain), hair, three middle ear bones, and mammary glands.
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Mary R. Dawson
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Microbiotheriidae
Microbiotheriidae is a family of australidelphian marsupials represented by only one extant species, the monito del monte, and a number of extinct species known from fossils in South America, Western Antarctica, and northeastern Australia.
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Minh Hóa District
Minh Hóa is a district in Quảng Bình Province, in the North Central Coast region of Vietnam.
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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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Monito del monte
The monito del monte (Spanish for "little monkey of the mountain") or colocolo opossum, Dromiciops gliroides, also called chumaihuén in Mapudungun, is a diminutive marsupial native only to southwestern South America (Argentina and Chile).
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Monotypic taxon
In biology, a monotypic taxon is a taxonomic group (taxon) that contains only one immediately subordinate taxon.
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MT-RNR1
Mitochondrially encoded 12S ribosomal RNA (often abbreviated as 12S or 12S rRNA) is a component of the small subunit (SSU) of the mitochondrial ribosome.
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National Geographic Society
The National Geographic Society (NGS), headquartered in Washington, D.C., United States, is one of the largest non-profit scientific and educational institutions in the world.
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Nocturnality
Nocturnality is an animal behavior characterized by being active during the night and sleeping during the day.
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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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Orbit (anatomy)
In anatomy, the orbit is the cavity or socket of the skull in which the eye and its appendages are situated.
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Pellet (ornithology)
A pellet, in ornithology, is the mass of undigested parts of a bird's food that some bird species occasionally regurgitate.
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Phou Hin Poun National Biodiversity Conservation Area
The Phou Hin Poun National Biodiversity Conservation Area, formerly known as the Khammouane Limestone National Biodiversity Conservation Area, is one of 21 National Biodiversity Conservation Areas of the Lao People's Democratic Republic.
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, also known simply as the "PG", is the largest daily newspaper serving metropolitan Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States.
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Poaceae
Poaceae or Gramineae is a large and nearly ubiquitous family of monocotyledonous flowering plants known as grasses, commonly referred to collectively as grass.
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS) is the official scientific journal of the National Academy of Sciences, published since 1915.
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Pterygoid fossa
The pterygoid fossa is an anatomical term for the fossa formed by the divergence of the lateral pterygoid plate and the medial pterygoid plate of the sphenoid bone.
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Quảng Bình Province
Quảng Bình, formerly Tiên Bình under the reign of Lê Trung Hưng of the Lê Dynasty (this province was renamed Quảng Bình in 1604), is a province along Vietnam's north-central coast.
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Rat
Rats are various medium-sized, long-tailed rodents in the superfamily Muroidea.
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Rodent
Rodents (from Latin rodere, "to gnaw") are mammals of the order Rodentia, which are characterized by a single pair of continuously growing incisors in each of the upper and lower jaws.
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Rural commune (Vietnam)
On the Third Tier, Vietnam is divided into 1,581 wards, 603 townships and 8,978 communes.
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Saola
The saola, siola, Vu Quang ox, spindlehorn, Asian unicorn, or, infrequently, the Vu Quang bovid (Pseudoryx nghetinhensis), is one of the world's rarest large mammals, a forest-dwelling bovine found only in the Annamite Range of Vietnam and Laos.
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Science (journal)
Science, also widely referred to as Science Magazine, is the peer-reviewed academic journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and one of the world's top academic journals.
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Seed
A seed is an embryonic plant enclosed in a protective outer covering.
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Skull
The skull is a bony structure that forms the head in vertebrates.
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Slate gray
Slate gray is a gray color with a slight azure tinge that is a representation of the average color of the material slate.
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Species
In biology, a species is the basic unit of classification and a taxonomic rank, as well as a unit of biodiversity, but it has proven difficult to find a satisfactory definition.
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Species complex
In biology, a species complex is a group of closely related species that are very similar in appearance to the point that the boundaries between them are often unclear.
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Squirrel
Squirrels are members of the family Sciuridae, a family that includes small or medium-size rodents.
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Tail
The tail is the section at the rear end of an animal's body; in general, the term refers to a distinct, flexible appendage to the torso.
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Thakhek
Thakhek (Lao language: ທ່າແຂກ) is a town in south-central Laos on the Mekong River and facing Nakhon Phanom across the river in northeastern Thailand.
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Thượng Hoá
Sex is a commune (xã) and village in Minh Hóa District, Quảng Bình Province, in Vietnam.
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Trung Hoá
Trung Hoá is a commune (xã) and village in Minh Hóa District, Quảng Bình Province, in Vietnam.
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Vietic languages
The Vietic languages are a branch of the Austroasiatic language family.
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Vietnam
Vietnam, officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia.
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Whiskers
Whiskers or vibrissae (singular: vibrissa) are a type of mammalian hair that are typically characterised, anatomically, by their large length, large and well-innervated hair follicle, and by having an identifiable representation in the somatosensory cortex of the brain.
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Wildlife Conservation Society
Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) was founded in 1895 as the New York Zoological Society (NYZS) and currently works to conserve more than two million square miles of wild places around the world.
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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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Zagros Mountains mouse-like hamster
The Zagros Mountains mouse-like hamster (Calomyscus bailwardi) is a relatively little-known rodent which was the first species of mouse-like hamster to be described.
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Zygomasseteric system
The zygomasseteric system (or zygomasseteric structure) in rodents is the anatomical arrangement of the masseter muscle of the jaw and the zygomatic arch of the skull.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laotian_rock_rat
