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empowering but not compelling the doing of an act.

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Alarm signaling in a facultatively social mammal, the southern Amazon red squirrel Sciurus spadiceus.

Nido maternal de una ardilla roja amazonica en una bromelia

These complex interactions suggest that life cycle evolution in facultatively paedomorphic salamanders is influenced by the variation in life history pressures experienced by males and females.

Effect of temperature, sex, and maturation status on metamorphosis in the western tiger salamander, A mbystoma mavortium

boskianus in the UAE or whether, perhaps, in the context of the relatively unpredictable UAE rainfall regime, the breeding period can be shifted facultatively to take advantage of unseasonably clement conditions.

A population of Bosk's fringe-toed lizard Acanthodactylus boskianus (Daudin, 1802) in the Hajar mountain foothills of the UAE

forcipatus is a generalist feeder on decaying material and will facultatively use carrion.

The distribution, habitat, diet and forensic significance of the scarab Frankenbergerius forcipatus (Harold, 1881) (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae)

Listeria monocytogenes is a Gram-positive bacillus which is facultatively anaerobic and non-spore-forming.

An unusual form of listerial CNS infection

marcescens are pathogens of plants, sharing many characteristic as being rod shaped, Gram negative, non-spore forming and facultatively anaerobic among others.

A New Bacterial Disease of Cassava in Venezuela Caused by Enterobacter cloacae

Continuous culture of some anaerobic and facultatively anaerobic rumen bacteria.

The effect of forage level and oil supplement on Butyrivibrio fibrisolvens and Anaerovibrio lipolytica in continuous culture fermenters

Concentration and species composition of aerobic and facultatively anaerobic bacteria released to the air of a dental operation area before and after disinfection of dental unit waterlines.

Calidad del agua de unidades odontologicas

Reidentification of facultatively alkalophilic Bacillus sp.

Cloning of a cellulase gene from indigenous strain of bacillus species

The oral prevalence of aerobic and facultatively anaerobic gram-negative rods and yeasts in Hong Kong Chinese.

Influence of consumption of probiotics on presence of enterobacteria in the oral cavity

Shewanella putrefaciens is a Gram-negative facultatively anaerobic bacteria belonging to the family Vibrionaceae.

Hydrocarbon-degrading bacteria associated with intestinal tract of fish from the Baltic sea/Angliavandenilius skaidancios bakterijos baltijos juros zuvu virskinamuosiuose traktuose

Relationships between stomatal traits and habit, habitat and ecosystem: Natural selection favors those individuals that facultatively adjust their phenotypes to the conditions in which they live (Stearns 1992).

Biometry of stomata in Blechnum species (Blechnaceae) with some taxonomic and ecological implications for the ferns