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in: Coppens, Filip; Janák, Jiří; Vymazalová, Hana (eds), 7th Symposium on Egyptian Royal Ideology: Royal versus Divine Authority, Acquisition, Legitimization and Renewal of Power. Prague, June 26-28, 2013 (KSG 4.4), WIesbaden (2015),... more
In zoology it is well known that birds are characterized by the presence of feathers, and mammals by hairs. Another common point of view is that avian scales are directly related to reptilian scales. As a skin embryologist, I have been... more
West Nile virus (WNV) is a public health threat and has caused the death of thousands of North American birds. As such, surveillance for WNV has been ongoing, utilizing numerous biological specimens and testing methods. Nonvascular (i.e.,... more
Iron powder, a promising dry-cleansing agent for oiled feathers where both the contaminant and the cleansing agent may be harvested magnetically, has been tested on the plumage of whole-bird models. The breast and back plumage of Mallard... more
Two populations of the European bee-eater were studied, one living at a reference site and the other at a metal mining site. The concentration of arsenic and 11 metals (Al, Cd, Co, Cr, Cu, Fe, Hg, Mn, Ni, Pb, and Zn) was measured in... more
It is shown that dielectrophoresis—the movement of particles in non-uniform electric fields—can be used to create engineered skin with artificial placodes of different sizes and shapes, in different spatial patterns. Modeling of the... more