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  • America called franciscana, or the La Plata dolphin.

    Livescience.com 2010

  • Mertens et al. showed that the seeds or spores of various plants (Cardamine, Taraxacum, Adiantum, etc.), the cysts of the crustaceans Branchipus schaefferi (fairy shrimp) and Artemia franciscana (brine shrimp) as well as adult bdelloid rotifers and tardigrades survived exposures to temperatures as high as 130 °C for as long as 10 min.

    Archive 2009-07-01 AYDIN 2009

  • Mertens et al. showed that the seeds or spores of various plants (Cardamine, Taraxacum, Adiantum, etc.), the cysts of the crustaceans Branchipus schaefferi (fairy shrimp) and Artemia franciscana (brine shrimp) as well as adult bdelloid rotifers and tardigrades survived exposures to temperatures as high as 130 °C for as long as 10 min.

    Survival at extreme temperatures: what is it good for? AYDIN 2009

  • This text is reproduced without the scientific dress of the _Analecta franciscana_, t. i., pp. 217-257.

    Life of St. Francis of Assisi Paul Sabatier 1893

  • _Analecta franciscana_ of the Franciscans of Quaracchi, near

    Life of St. Francis of Assisi Paul Sabatier 1893

  • It has served as the base of the second edition: _Analecta franciscana sive Chronica aliaque documenta ad historiam minorum spectantia.

    Life of St. Francis of Assisi Paul Sabatier 1893

  • The manzanita, also known as Arctostaphylos franciscana , was believed to be extinct until 2009, when a sharp-eyed botanist saw the lonely plant on a traffic island in the middle of a busy highway, part of a major construction project near the Golden Gate Bridge.

    News - latimes.com 2011

  • A franciscana dolphin off the South American coast.

    Livescience.com 2010

  • This satellite image of chlorophyll concentration, obtained from the SeaWiFS satellite, was used by researchers to understand how franciscana dolphin populations are formed by environmental barriers.

    Livescience.com 2010

  • Researchers used both molecular technology and satellite imagery to learn more about how oceanographic barriers shape populations of the franciscana dolphin, a rare cetacean occurring in the coastal waters of eastern South America.

    Livescience.com 2010

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