WILL AN AUROCHS COME BACK TO POLISH FORESTS?
2010
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WILL AN AUROCHS COME BACK TO POLISH FORESTS? Ed. A.M.
Dzieduszycki, R. Słomski, M.S. Ryba. Bibliotheca Thurcoviana, Poznań University of Life
Sciences Publisher, Turek, Poznań, 2010 ISBN
978-83-61958-16-1, ISBN 978-83-7160-580-2 |
Book provides a
brief recapitulation of our knowledge and research connected with the aurochs
and its habitat. After nearly four hundred years from the extinction of an
aurochs on our earth there is still fresh memory about the animal but the
details of it are receding into the background and we are beginning to ascribe
mythical attributes to an aurochs. One of the most important achievements is
arousing a wide discussion about an aurochs and in this meaning an aurochs has
already come back to life. There was attention drawn to the necessity of
free-living animal protection and to huge difficulties with exploration of
extinct species. From the research into DNA we will find out the closest
relatives of an aurochs.
Contents
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Acknowledgement |
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Turek —
town in the Mehofferian climate |
9 |
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Part 1. The aurochs |
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Preface |
17 |
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Species description |
18 |
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An
aurochs in old cultures |
29 |
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The
history of the species |
49 |
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The
history of an aurochs on the Polish lands |
65 |
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An
aurochs and domestic cattle |
71 |
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An
aurochs, its environment and diet |
74 |
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The
ethical matters of the restoration of an aurochs |
92 |
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The
advantages and threats of the restoration of an aurochs |
94 |
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Is it
possible to bring an aurochs back to Polish lands? |
107 |
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Part 2.
The application of the molecular biology methods in the research into an
aurochs |
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The DNA
as hereditary material |
115 |
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The
beginning of the research into the ancient DNA |
120 |
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Examples
of molecular research on aDNA |
122 |
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A
Plains Zebra (Quagga) - the first animal in the aDNA research and in the
restoration of an extinct species |
124 |
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The
laboratory for the aDNA research |
126 |
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The
most important stages in working with the aDNA |
131 |
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Restoration
of an aurochs by learning about the structure of its DNA |
133 |
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Preparation
of the aurochs’ DNA library |
138 |
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The
genetic code of an aurochs |
140 |
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The
research of the mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) |
142 |
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The
analysis of the mtDNA of an aurochs |
143 |
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Literature |
152 |
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