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Mammoth ventricular hypertrophy.
A 23-year-old man was referred to the cardiology clinic because of an abnormal ECG and a murmur. He was asymptomatic from the cardiac perspective, and there was no significant family history of cardiac disease or sudden death. He was physically active but was not an athlete and did not exercise regularly. On physical examination, he had a blood pressure of 140/70 mm Hg in both arms with a norma...
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Species (Cites) in 1989, to halt the steep decline in elephant numbers. “Wild elephant populations were decimated by the ivory trade. By the time the 1989 Cites ban came into force, Africa’s elephants had been reduced by more than 50 per cent,” says Mark Jones, programmes director at Care for the Wild, an international wildlife charity which commissioned the mammoth ivory report. “Poaching cont...
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M ammoth mitochondrial (mt) genomes are apparently on a similar schedule to London buses—you wait for ages and then suddenly three come along at once. Within the past six weeks, three studies [1–3] have independently determined all, or most, of the mammoth mt genome sequence, some 16,800 base pairs (bp). Encouragingly, the partial sequence was a byproduct of a study that generated some 13 milli...
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عنوان ژورنال: Scientific American
سال: 1899
ISSN: 0036-8733
DOI: 10.1038/scientificamerican07151899-19689supp