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  • The Best Science Apps: October Picks
    (Of course this means that if you have an iPad you must have a cellular plan or have access to a Wi-Fi network, which may be hard to come by when you're out searching for birds. ...
    9-30-2013
  • Bird Brains Shed Light on Speech Learning
    for allowing the birds to recognize the vocal sounds they are learning to imitate. ... of juvenile songbirds that allow the birds to recognize the vocal sounds they are ...
    9-5-2013
  • Odd Science: Why the Chicken Lost His Penis
    Like humans, birds reproduce by internal fertilization, which begs the question: Why don't ... While the researchers are not entirely sure why chickens and other birds have only ...
    6-6-2013
  • Study: Flu Strains Circulating Among Swine, Birds Show Pandemic...
    a particular flu strain circulating among birds and pigs could pose a significant health ... the deadly 1968 strain with around 1,100 H3 strains now circulating among birds and pigs. ...
    5-9-2013
  • Bird Flu: H7N9
    has been detected in domesticated birds-Chinese officials advised its citizens to avoid live poultry, and slaughtered more than 20,000 birds at a wholesale market in Shanghai. ...
    4-10-2013
  • Bird Flu Back Again?
    birds at a wholesale market in Shanghai. The Chinese government was responding to the detection of H7N9 in a pigeon, the first time the flu has been detected in domesticated birds ...
    4-9-2013
  • Lab Results at a Baseball Game? You Bet
    ... Considering this ahead of time may seem prudent, but it's a red herring. Eventually, any great app will be available on all platforms and devices. (Angry Birds, after all, didn't ...
    3-21-2013
  • The Albatross Project
    The research question deals with understanding where the birds go when they leave their nesting island, and this question is addressed by tagging individual birds and monitoring ...
    2-15-2013
  • Developing Chicken-Derived mAbs
    distance between mammals and birds to generate antibody libraries to human targets. ... which allows them to screen B cells isolated from the spleen of immunized birds. ...
    11-16-2012
  • Gene Predicts Time of Death
    A common gene variant separates early birds from night owls, and can even predict ... A common gene variant separates early birds from night owls, and can even predict ...
    11-16-2012
  • Government Panel Makes the Right Move on Avian Flu Research
    ... But the World Health Organization reports that half of the 573 people who developed the disease after coming into contact with infected birds have died. A mortality rate of over ...
    8-22-2012
  • Learning for Peanuts
    of the most surreal and scary of Alfred Hitchcock's movies had to be 1963's "The Birds." ... After the birds adjust, the concentration of peanuts is reduced relative to the coins, ...
    8-15-2012
  • Off-label Marketing and a Lesson in Integrity
    ... of advertising a drug for a use for which it cannot be prescribed? With this "two birds, one stone" approach, we can cleave both branches of this bifurcated decaying tree. | ...
    8-9-2012
  • Bird Flu Kills Seals
    analysis, seal H3N8 descended from an avian strain that has been circulating in North American waterfowl since 2002, which implies recent transmission from wild birds to seals. ...
    7-31-2012
  • SpectrumView
    spectrogram that allows one to compare the sound signatures of the subway on the way to work, the birds chirping in the park, the loud centrifuge in the corner of the lab... ...
    6-1-2012
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    Journal Articles

  • Migratory Birds Modeled as Critical Transport Agents for West...
    A. Townsend Peterson, David A. Vieglais, James K. Andreasen
    Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases
    Migratory Birds Modeled as Critical Transport Agents for West Nile Virus in North America ... We tested Culex mosquitoes and long-distance migratory birds as potential agents of spread ...
  • Synanthropic Birds Associated with High Prevalence of Tick-Borne...
    Sándor Hornok, Tibor Csörgo, José de la Fuente, Miklos Gyuranecz, Csaba Privigyei, Marina L. Meli, Zsuzsa Kreizinger, Eniko Gönczi, Isabel G. Fernández de Mera, Regina Hofmann-Lehmann
    Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases
    Synanthropic Birds Associated with High Prevalence of Tick-Borne Rickettsiae and with the ... The aim of this study was to analyze synanthropic birds as risk factors for introducing ...
  • H5N1 Surveillance in Migratory Birds in Java, Indonesia
    Arthur C. Stoops, Katie A. Barbara, Mochamad Indrawan, Ima N. Ibrahim, Wicaksana B. Petrus, Susan Wijaya, Arik Farzeli, Ungke Antonjaya, Lim W. Sin, N. Hidayatullah, Ige Kristanto, A.M. Tampubolon, S. Purnama, Adam Supriatna, Timothy H. Burgess, Maya Williams, Shannon D. Putnam, Steve Tobias, Patrick J. Blair
    Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases
    H5N1 Surveillance in Migratory Birds in Java, Indonesia Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases Abstract We sought to elucidate the role of migratory birds in transmission of H5N1 in an ...
  • Migratory and Carnivorous Birds in Brazil: Reservoirs for Anaplasma...
    Rosangela Zacarias Machado, Marcos Rogério André, Karin Werther, Eliane de Sousa, Fernando Antônio Gavioli, José Roberto Ferreira Alves Junior, Eliane Souza
    Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases
    Migratory and Carnivorous Birds in Brazil: Reservoirs for Anaplasma and Ehrlichia Species? ... hosts for Anaplasmataceae agents in Brazil, we collected blood samples from 21 wild birds. ...

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