Saturday, October 29, 2011

Five Articles and 60,000 More for Free

The Royal Society Journal has just been given us all free access to their archives, complete with search engine

For your amusement, here are five articles that might be worth reading, depending on your level of interest in things canine.  Check out the dates on two of them -- pretty early work there!
  • The pace of morphological change: historical transformation of skull shape in St Bernard dogs, Proc. R. Soc. B January 7, 2008 ....the study of historical shape change in dog skulls provides an excellent opportunity...Kennel Club 2006; Young Bannasch 2006). Dog breeds are maintained by breeders as distinct...heterochrony and allometry in the evolution of dog breeds (Wayne 1986), we also examine ... Abstract   Full Text   Full Text (PDF)
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  • Random drift and large shifts in popularity of dog breeds, Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B August 7, 2004 ...drift and large shifts in popularity of dog breeds H. A. Herzog 1 R. A. Bentley...phenomenon-changes in the distributions of popularity of dog breeds in the United States in each of the...drift and large shifts in popularity of dog breeds.  Abstract   Full Text (PDF)
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  • The Micro-Organism of Distemper in the Dog, and the Production of a Distemper Vaccine, Proc. R. Soc. Lond. January 1, 1900  Full Text (PDF)
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  • Observations Tending to Shew That the Wolf, Jackal, and Dog, are All of the Same Species.  By John Hunter, Esq. F. R. S.Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. January 1, 1787  Full Text (PDF)
  • Precision animal breeding, Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B February 12, 2008 disease in Shetland sheepdogs, Scottish terriers and Doberman Pinschers (where different...Setters, copper toxicosis in Bedlington terriers, and hereditary cataract and L-2-hydroxyglutaric aciduria in Staffordshire Bull terriers are already available in the UK through...       Abstract     Full Text    Full Text (PDF)

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