Search publications of the members of the Royal Belgian institute of natural Sciences
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A second New World hoverfly, Toxomerus floralis (Fabricius) (Diptera: Syrphidae), recorded from the Old World, with description of larval pollen-feeding ecology
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Review of the genus Endothyrella Zilch, 1960 with description of five new species (Gastropoda, Pulmonata, Plectopylidae)
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Habitat suitability modelling of four terrestrial slug species in the Iberian Peninsula (Arionidae: Geomalacus species)
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In silico discovery of a nearly complete mitochondrial genome Numt in the dog (Canis lupus familiaris) nuclear genome
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Length heteroplasmy of the polyC-polyT-polyC stretch in the dog mtDNA control region
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DNA barcoding contributes to the taxonomy of Afrotropical hover flies (Insecta: Diptera: Syrphidae)
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DNA barcoding identifies an introduced hover fly species (Diptera: Syrphidae: Syrphinae) in the Afrotropics
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A special issue on DNA barcoding edited by the Belgian Network for DNA Barcoding (BeBoL)
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Large-scale DNA barcoding of ants from Ecuador
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High-throughput sequencing of PCR amplicons: a test to barcode a bee species complex (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Halictidae) and survey Wolbachia infections
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Identification of Belgian mosquito species (Diptera: Culicidae) by DNA barcoding
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DNA barcoding identifies an introduced hoverfl y species (Diptera, Syrphidae, Syrphinae) in the Afrotropics
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DNA barcoding contributes to the taxonomy of Afrotropical hoverflies (Insecta, Diptera, Syrphidae)
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Description of new species of Favartia (Pygmaepterys) and Typhinellus (Muricidae: Muricopsinae and Typhinae) from Southern Oman
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New species of Muricidae Rafinesque, 1815 (Mollusca: Gastropoda) from the Western Indian Ocean
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Description of a New Species of Naquetia (Gastropoda, Muricidae) from the Red Sea and Redefinition of Naquetia jickelii (TAPPARONE CANEFRI, 1875)
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Four new species of Muricidae (Gastropoda) from New Caledonia, Papua New Guinea, and Indonesia
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Description of a new species of Typhinellus (Gastropoda: Muricidae: Typhinae) from the Western Atlantic
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Subsistence economy and land use strategies in the Burdur province (SW Anatolia) from prehistory to the Byzantine period.
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Estimating body size in early primates: the case of Archicebus and Teilhardina
- Archicebus achilles and Teilhardina belgica are among the earliest Eocene primates so knowledge of their paleobiology is crucial to our understanding of early primate evolution. Since body mass is often a key to evaluating other important aspects of paleobiology determination of the likely body mass of these early primate taxa is a significant task for paleoprimatologists. These particular taxa pose several interesting problems for body mass estimation. First, they are at the far small end of body size distribution of living primates. Secondly, they are not nested within any family of living primates but lie at or near the base of the tarsiiform radiation. Thirdly, their nearest living relatives (tarsiers) are highly derived dentally, cranially, and postcranially. All of these raise the question of how to choose an appropriate reference group. In addition Archicebus, although represented by many skeletal elements, is a sample of one while Teilhardina is represented by more individuals but fewer different skeletal elements. Using samples of extant strepsirhines, tarsiers, and anthropoids to construct bivariate and multiple regression models we investigated the effects of choice of reference population (different size ranges and different phylogenetic groups) on estimates of body mass in these fossil taxa. We conclude that even the best statistical estimates have wide confidence intervals which need to be taken into account if body mass is used to predict other aspects of the fossil taxon’s behavior and ecology.
