Search publications of the members of the Royal Belgian institute of natural Sciences
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Contribution of stable isotopes (C,N,S) in collagen of late Pleistocene large mammal trophic ecology and landscape use: a case study in Goyet and Scladina cave (30-40,000 years BP)
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Phylogeography of the small equids
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Palaeolithic dogs at the Gravettian Předmosti site, CzechRepublic
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Mammoth hunting at the Epigravettian Yudinovo site (Russian Plain)
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A mammoth story - population mitogenomics of Eurasian woolly mammoths
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The palaeogenetics of cat dispersal in the ancient world
- The cat has long been important to human societies as a pest-control agent, object of symbolic value and companion animal, but little is known about its domestication process and early anthropogenic dispersal. Here we show, using ancient DNA analysis of geographically and temporally widespread archaeological cat remains, that both the Near Eastern and Egyptian populations of Felis silvestris lybica contributed to the gene pool of the domestic cat at different historical times. While the cat’s worldwide conquest began during the Neolithic period in the Near East, its dispersal gained momentum during the Classical period, when the Egyptian cat successfully spread throughout the Old World. The expansion patterns and ranges suggest dispersal along human maritime and terrestrial routes of trade and connectivity. A coat-colour variant was found at high frequency only after the Middle Ages, suggesting that directed breeding of cats occurred later than with most other domesticated animals.
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Molecular and morphological inference of cryptic species within Anentome wykoffi (Brandt, 1974) (Gastropoda: Nassariidae) from Thailand
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The systematics and evolution of the Sri Lankan rainforest land snail Corilla: New insights from RADseq-based phylogenetics
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Rissoa parva (da Costa, 1778) (Gastropoda: Caenogastropoda: Rissoidae) an overlooked species or a newcomer in Iceland?
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Description d’une nouvelle espèce du genre Oceanomegopis Komiya & Drumont, 2009 de Nouvelle-Calédonie (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae, Prioninae, Aegosomatini)
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Plicathyridine brachiopods (Athyridida) from the Frasnian (Late Devonian) of Western Europe and Middle East
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Upper and uppermost Famennian (Devonian) brachiopods from north-western France (Avesnois) and southern Belgium
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Lenticellaria and Hillerella, new kraussinoid genera (Kraussinoidea, Brachiopoda) from Indo-Pacific and Red Sea waters: Evolution in the subfamily Megerliinae
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New data on the incertae sedis biota and foraminifera of the mid-Famennian Baelen Member (Late Devonian, eastern Belgium)
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Edouard Poty: a bio- and bibliography
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Royseux: a palaeobiodiversity hotspot in the Late Viséan (Carboniferous) of Belgium
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Geological context of the Mesolithic Heid de Fer and Ourlaine sites at Becco (Liège province, Belgium)
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Les ressources du sous-sol du bassin du Hoyoux jusqu'aux portes de la ville d'Andenne. Un riche passé industriel qui se conjugue au présent
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Aperçu géologique du bassin du Hoyoux
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Les Brachiopodes
