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	Bird Books of Europe
		The Birds of the Isles of Scilly by S.J.M. Gantlett
		Birds of the Spurn Peninsula by Ralph Chislett
		Breeding Birds of the Isle of Wight by J.M. Cheverton
	www.earthlife.net /birds/bg-europe.html (6237 words)

	Ontario Genomics Institute
		Prions are naturally occurring proteins in animals – their normal functions, however, are not clear.
		Disease-causing prions have the tendency to clump together with each other to form large aggregates – called amyloids – that are resistant to destruction or un-clumping.
		Prion diseases can also be infectious, or transmitted; they can be passed between members of the same species, and occasionally passed from one species to the next.
	www.ontariogenomics.ca /education/episode4.asp (1026 words)

	Turtle Prion Gene
		The ancestral amniote prion: alignment of turtle, bird, mammal, and doppel
		Mammalian prions are not particularly well conserved within the signal region; their alignment to bird prion signal is already somewhat dubious (only 2 of 9 avian sequences cover this region).
		A paradoxical aspect of the prion protein is the evolution and function of the second loop (between alpha helix B and C).
	www.mad-cow.org /00/mar00_turtle.html (6698 words)

	Bird Toys Can Your Pet Bird Make You Sick?
		Every bird owner has the responsibility to themselves and to others within their household to take measures to reduce the risk.
		All newly acquired birds should be examined by a veterinarian prior to a quarantine period of at least 30 days.
		Your veterinarian will not be able to guarantee that your bird is free of disease, he/she will however, be able to look for the common indicators on physical exam and laboratory tests that my indicate that your pet is not in good health.
	www.premiercages.co.uk /pet-birds.html (1525 words)

	Prion - Medicow
		The prion theory has been controversial from the beginning, and although scientific evidence for the existence of such infectious particles has increased, an exact causal link between prions and the diseases they are believed to cause remains to be established.
		The scientists conducted their studies using yeast prions, which are similar to the mammalian prions that have gained notoriety for their roles in such fatal brain-destroying human diseases such as Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and kuru, and in the animal diseases BSE and scrapie.
		Prion diseases are caused by misfolded versions of the prion protein, which cause other prion proteins to misfold and clump together in the brain.
	www.medicow.com /topics/Prion (2487 words)

	Doppel Delay
		Prion exon 2 is baffling in its sequence conservation, which is much better than the seemingly more mission-critical exon 1 transcription start.
		Prion mutations are autosomal dominant because amyloid represents toxic gain-of-function; doppel protein is unlikely to form amyloid because of poor homology to the 106-126 region.
		If prion protein had this second disulfide pair, the effect would be to stabilize the loop between the second beta strand and the second alpha helix, which appear in the original Nature nmr ensemble as a fattened tube of relative positional uncertainty.
	www.mad-cow.org /doppel_delay.html (12711 words)

	Study Links Progressive Aphasia Syndrome to Prion Gene: National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)
		Therefore the prion gene is probably not the primary cause of the disease, he adds.
		Previous studies have suggested that normal prion proteins carry out a variety of functions, from cellular delivery of copper to cell signaling and even triggering or preventing cell death.
		"This is a new case where prion genes are linked to a neurological disorder, and it suggests that we need to learn more about the normal function of prions in the nervous system in order to better understand their role in disease," says Michael Nunn, Ph.D., the NIH neurology institute’s program director for this study.
	www.ninds.nih.gov /news_and_events/press_releases/pressrelease_prion_aphasia_112805.htm (865 words)

	Petrels - Prions, gadfly, storm and diving petrels - Te Ara Encyclopedia of New Zealand
		Fairy prions eat krill and other small crustaceans, which they either peck while sitting on the water or take while in flight, making only momentary contact with the water.
		This is the largest prion and, as its name suggests, it has a broad bill with lamellae (comb-like fringes), which hang from the upper beak.
		Broad-billed prions breed on islands off southern New Zealand and on the Chatham Islands, where the birds are abundant.
	www.teara.govt.nz /EarthSeaAndSky/BirdsOfSeaAndShore/Petrels/4/en (713 words)

	Eau de prion? Seabirds can smell their mates, scientists say
		One good reason to study odor detection in prions and other "tube-nosed" seabirds is that the birds are pretty smelly to begin with.
		One of the three bird smells came from the mate of the bird being tested.
		These results revealed that the birds could pick out the specific smells of their partners and that they preferred their mates' smells over other birds' smells.
	www.eurekalert.org /features/kids/2004-10/aaft-edp020805.php (367 words)

	Prion Diseases
		Abnormal prion proteins are little understood disease agents involved in causing horrific brain-wasting diseases such as Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease in people, mad cow disease in cattle and chronic wasting disease in deer and elk.
		Researchers knew that prions, the misfolded proteins that cause mad cow disease and other brain disorders, were killing off a class of important brain cells in a transgenic mouse model.
		Furthermore, the study finds that the infectious prion proteins, also known as prions, cross the normally stringent intestinal barrier by riding piggyback on ferritin, a protein normally absorbed by the intestine and abundantly present in a typical meat dish.
	www.rxpgnews.com /priondiseases.shtml (2007 words)

	birding facts Birding Resources by the Fat Birder
		It is generally accepted that Procellariidae split into four broad groups; the fulmars (Fulmarus); the gadfly-petrels (Pterodroma); the prions (Pachyptila) and the shearwaters (Puffinus)....
		Pelagics is for providing infomation on upcoming and past birding tours - and for pricing information and schedules - and questions - those providing tours should respond to any questions.
		Snow petrels are pure white birds with fl beaks and eyes.
	www.fatbirder.com /species_and_families/non_passerines/procellariidae.html (1021 words)

	TerraNature \| New Zealand Ecology - Native birds list
		More dramatically, native bird species have suffered the greatest losses from human occupation, particularly the introduction of predatory mammals.
		A total of 197 native terrestrial, coastal and oceanic bird species have been identified.
		Forty-nine (47 percent) terrestrial birds have become extinct since human colonisation 700 years ago.
	www.terranature.org /nativeBirds_list.htm (314 words)

	* Prion - (Bird): Definition
		It is widely distributed, but mostly breeds on offshore islands that hold populations of prions and petrels which form the bulk of its prey.
		Some penguins and auks have simple structures to help them strain small organisms from water, and one Southern Hemisphere genus of petrels (Pachyptila, prions or whalebirds) and some ducks have filtering devices.
		The Huia relied mainly on insects for their food, especially those living in wood or under bark such as the abundant huhu beetle grub, Prionoplus reticularis.
	en.mimi.hu /bird/prion.html (130 words)

	Bird Books on Africa
		Birds of Malawi A Supplement to Newman's Birds of Southern Africa by K Newman, N Johnston-Stewart and B Medland
		Birds of the Republic of Seychelles by I Bullock
		The Birds of Southern Mozambique by Phillip A. Clancey
	www.earthlife.net /birds/bg-africa.html (1581 words)

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		Bird Flu H5N1 (BF) Control RNA: 96 capillaries (20 ul).
	www.clipperbio.com (442 words)

	birdwatching nepal Books, Book Price Comparison at 130 bookstores
		Handbook of the Birds of India and Pakistan: Together with Those of Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan and Sri Lanka, Vol.
		Handbook of the Birds of India and Pakistan: Together with Those of Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan and SRI Lanka: Warblers to Redstarts, Vol.
		Birds of India: Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Sri Lanka, and the Maldives
	www.bookfinder4u.com /search/birdwatching_nepal.html (876 words)

	birdwatching seychelles Books, Book Price Comparison at 130 bookstores
		This is the first comprehensive guide to the birds of the Seychelles, a spectacular archipelago of 115 islands north of Madagascar.
		Birds of the Indian Ocean Islands: Madagascar, Mauritius, Reunion, Rodrigues, Seychelles and the Comoros
		Birds of the Seychelles and the Outlying Islands
	www.bookfinder4u.com /search/birdwatching_seychelles.html (525 words)

	Recoveries through the WEB
		In order to use this form for reporting your encounters of marked birds, you must now have a valid email address, which will be requested on the following page.
		We are pleased to announce that we are now providing basic banding information on the bird you are reporting, including the State or Province where the bird was banded, the date it was banded, and the species.
		Please select the bird group by using the down arrow to retrieve a list or type the first letter and the system will start the list at the beginning of that letter.
	www.pwrc.usgs.gov /bbl/bblretrv/webrec.cfm (227 words)

	Can Your Pet Bird Make You Sick?
		s discussed above, there are many diseases that can potentially be spread from birds to humans.
		ll newly acquired birds should be examined by a veterinarian prior to a quarantine period of at least 30 days.
		t home, there are certain measures that will help keep your bird healthy.
	www.realmacaw.com /pages/birdsic.html (1596 words)

	Bird Conservation - Species Information: Bird Lists (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		The maps are annotated to indicate sources, migratory status, historic versus current ranges, origin (native or introduced) and taxonomic decisions.
		The migratory status indications are particularly detailed, distinguishing where birds are permanent residents, breeding residents, non-breeding residents, or passage migrants.
		First, at a regional scale, we explore the potential effect of global warming on entire montane biotas of mammals, birds, butterflies, and plants in the Great Basin of North America.
	birdcon.nbii.gov /species_information/species_lists.php?page=9 (2888 words)

	Food Safety Research Information Office: Pathogens and Contaminants
		Provides information about Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) and prion disease research.
		Learn about the research being conducted to control and evaluate the risk of avian influenza H5N1 virus being transmitted to humans via poultry products in the food chain.
		A fact sheet identifying human and animal health issues related to bovine spongiform encephalopathy.
	fsrio.nal.usda.gov /research_topics_index.php?topic=virus_prion (195 words)

	Mangoverde World Bird Guide Species Page: Slender-billed Prion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Clements, James F. Birds of the World: A Checklist.
		If there is no family list to the left, you may have arrived at this page from a direct link.
		Please select "Mangoverde World Bird Guide" to view the entire bird site.
	www.mangoverde.com /birdsound/spec/spec11-43.html (83 words)

	WINGS Birding Tours to The Sub-Antarctic Islands of New Zealand and Australia: Bird List (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		WINGS Birding Tours to The Sub-Antarctic Islands of New Zealand and Australia: Bird List
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		Bird Lists for The Sub-Antarctic Islands of New Zealand and Australia
	wingsbirds.com /tours/birdlist/84 (41 words)

	Family: Procellariidae
		English: Prion ↔ Dove-Petrel ↔ Petrel ↔ Whalebird ↔ Whale-Bird, Blue Prion, Dove Prion, Dove-white Petrel, Whalebird, Snowbird
		English: Prion ↔ Dove-Petrel ↔ Petrel ↔ Whalebird ↔ Whale-Bird, Thin-billed Prion, Narrow-billed Prion
		English: Prion ↔ Dove-Petrel ↔ Petrel ↔ Whalebird ↔ Whale-Bird, Thick-billed Prion
	www.4-siteplanning.com /africanbirdtrips/species/66-procellariidae.html (442 words)

	Dove Prion, Pachyptila desolata, SE of Falkland Islands
		Dove Prion, Pachyptila desolata, SE of Falkland Islands
		Dove (Antarctic) Prion SE of Falkland Islands - November 15, 2004.
		Back to Dove Prion Image Thumbnails for More Photos
	www.birdinfo.com /A_Images_D/DovePrion_0002.html (28 words)

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