Online today in Biology Letters, paleontologists describe nine couples of a species of aquatic turtle that perished while copulating and that were then preserved — the first such
record among vertebrates, the researchers say.
It has been implicated in the decline or extinction of up to 200 species of frogs alone; the IUCN has declared Bd to be «the worst infectious disease ever
recorded among vertebrates in terms of the number of species impacted and its propensity to drive them to extinction.»
Not exact matches
One means of accomplishing that would be to include lab chiefs» safety
records among the materials submitted in grant proposals (and weighed in funding decisions), alongside currently required materials such as human subjects and
vertebrate - care documentation.