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L.J.P. Vieillot first described and named the eastern subspecies of the wild turkey in 1817 as "silvestris," meaning (??) turkey.
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The team looked at domestic cats in the UK, the US, Japan and elsewhere and found that they were all made up of members of Felis silvestris lybica.
Endangered: are Scotland's wildcats running out of lives? 2010
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"That the domestic cats grouped with Felis silvestris lybica alone among wildcats meant that domestic cats arose in a single locale, the Middle East, and not in other places where wildcats are common," states Driscoll and colleagues in a paper in Scientific American.
Endangered: are Scotland's wildcats running out of lives? 2010
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His team took samples from 979 wildcats and domestic cats from across the world and found the wildcats grouped into three main genetic clusters: the European wildcat, Felis silvestris silvestris; the Middle Eastern wildcat, Felis silvestris lybica, and the southern African wildcat, Felis silvestris cafra.
Endangered: are Scotland's wildcats running out of lives? 2010
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Evolution of behavioral reproductive isolation in a laboratory stock of Drosophila silvestris.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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Evolution of behavioral reproductive isolation in a laboratory stock of Drosophila silvestris.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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There are 6 nationally and 4 internationally threatened mammals: otters Lutra lutra (T) which are occasionally found, steppe polecat Mustella eversmanni, masked polecat Vormela peregusna and European wild cat Felis silvestris.
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Evolution of behavioral reproductive isolation in a laboratory stock of Drosophila silvestris.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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Principal forest species include Scots pine Pinus silvestris, Norway spruce Picea abies, hornbeam Carpinus betulus, little-leaved lime Tilia cordata, oak Quercus robur, sycamore Acer platanoides, maple Acer spp., ash Fraxinus excelsior, downy and white birch Betula pubescens and B. verrucosa, aspen Populus tremula and black alder Alnus glutinosa.
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Brushwood associations on the peat soils are composed mainly of grey willow Salix cinerea, dwarf birch Betula humilis and Pinus silvestris.
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