Filters: Collection: "ir_uspace" Subject: "Africa"
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Davidson, Diane W. | Ant-plant symbioses in Africa and the neotropics : history, biogeography and diversity | Symbiotic ant-plant relationships afford an excellent opportunity to analyze the effects of both historical and ecological factors on the evolution of mutualisms. Occurring in tropical forests throughout the world, all myrmecophytic plants provide food and permanent housing to ants; the ants, in t... | Ant-plant symbiosis; Africa; Neotropics; Myrmecophytes; Plant-ants | 1993 |
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Bohs, Lynn A. | Eggplant origins: out of Africa, into the Orient | The eggplant (Solanum melongena L.), also known as aubergine or brinjal, has been cultivated for centuries in the Old World and is currently a crop species of global importance. Despite this, hypotheses of eggplant evolution have been fraught with controversy. Previous conclusions have relied solely... | Eggplant origins; Crop domestication; Solanum melongena complex; Solanum incanum; DNA sequence; Africa; Asia | 2010 |
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Paiva, Marie Clare P. | Quick glimpse at public and academic libraries in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia | Ethiopia's 80 million people continue to live in a country with poor infrastructure in the Horn of Africa region. The population of Addis Ababa is estimated at 10-15 million and libraries have just recently been given some recognition. When I first came to this country as an ALA-USIA Fellow in... | Libraries; Africa; Ethiopia | 2008 |
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