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Current Biology - The cry embedded within the purr: Despite widespread interest in inter-specific communication, few studies have examined the abilities of companion animals to communicate with humans in what has become their natural environment — the human home 1,2.
Archive 2010-01-17 Bill Crider 2010
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Understanding inter-specific variation in mechanisms of color production may be the key to comprehend the different evolutionary pathways involved in color signaling.
Birds: Feather Color Is More Than Skin Deep | Impact Lab 2009
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Del Val concludes: This surprising divergence with previous studies raises the question whether there are inter-specific differences in anatomical sites for conversion of carotenoids.
Birds: Feather Color Is More Than Skin Deep | Impact Lab 2009
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Recently developed inter-specific hybrid fruits are available to home orchardists.
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Many characteristics are likely to enable plants to cope with abiotic selective pressures (e.g., climate) more than biotic pressures (e.g., inter-specific competition).
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While it is true that any stretch of DNA that belongs to all and only humans would be among those differences found by comparing a single human genome sequence to a single nonhuman primate or mouse genome sequence, any “uniquely human” differences could not be distinguished from the others without extensive infra - and inter-specific population studies which are not part of the HGP.
The Human Genome Project Gannett, Lisa 2008
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I have, in the past seven years, made over a thousand crosses of poplars and about 600 inter-specific oak crosses.
Northern Nut Growers Association Thirty-Fourth Annual Report 1943
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It has been suggested that if varieties now available are not successfull in Virginia, perhaps new varieties may be originated by crossing, including inter-specific crosses.
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In detail, the struggle for existence is _intra-specific_, involving some form of competition or rivalry among the members of a single species; it is _inter-specific_, as
The Doctrine of Evolution Its Basis and Its Scope Henry Edward Crampton
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It appears, then, that this form of inter-specific sterility cannot be increased by natural or any other known form of selection, but that it contains within itself its own principle of destruction.
Darwinism (1889) Alfred Russel Wallace 1868
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