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Springhares, flying and flightless scaly‐tailed squirrels (Anomaluromorpha, Rodentia) are the squirrely mouse: comparative anatomy of the masticatory musculature and its implications on the evolution of hystricomorphy in rodents

Journal of Anatomy, Volume 244, Issue 6, Page 900-928, June 2024.
The digital dissection of the masticatory musculature of (a) Anomalurus, (b) Idiurus, (c) Zenkerella, and (d) Pedetes reveals a great degree of diversity in morphology. These taxa present a hystricomorphous condition of the skull that largely differs from those of other rodents with an enlarged foramen and reaffirms the significance of the descriptive ...
Léa Da Cunha, Pierre‐Henri Fabre, Lionel Hautier   +2 more
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Stable isotope ecology of Cape dune mole-rats (Bathyergus suillus) from Elandsfontein, South Africa: implications for C4 vegetation and hominin paleobiology in the Cape Floral Region [PDF]

, 2016
The archaeological and paleontological records from the west coast of South Africa have potential to provide insights into ecosystem dynamics in the region during the mid Pleistocene.
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Topographic barriers drive the pronounced genetic subdivision of a range‐limited fossorial rodent

Molecular Ecology, Volume 33, Issue 5, March 2024.
Abstract Due to their limited dispersal ability, fossorial species with predominantly belowground activity usually show increased levels of population subdivision across relatively small spatial scales. This may be exacerbated in harsh mountain ecosystems, where landscape geomorphology limits species' dispersal ability and leads to small effective ...
Victoria M. Reuber, Michael V. Westbury, Alba Rey‐Iglesia, Addisu Asefa, Nina Farwig, Georg Miehe, Lars Opgenoorth, Radim Šumbera, Luise Wraase, Tilaye Wube, Eline D. Lorenzen, Dana G. Schabo   +11 more
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Bathyergidae Waterhouse 1841

, 1993
Family Bathyergidae Waterhouse, 1841. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., [ser. 1], 8:81. COMMENTS: Reviewed by Honeycutt et al. (1991). The family has been traditionally divided into two subfamilies: Bathyerginae with grooved upper incisors (Bathyergus); and Georychinae with ungrooved upper incisors (Cryptomys, Georychus, Heliophobius, Heterocephalis). Honeycutt et
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An assessment of South African small mammal barcode sequence libraries: Implications for future carnivore diet analyses by DNA

African Journal of Ecology, Volume 62, Issue 1, January 2024.
Abstract DNA metabarcoding requires reference libraries that link DNA sequences to species. Mitochondrial gene regions cytochrome c oxidase I (COI), 12S ribosomal RNA (12S rRNA), 16S ribosomal RNA (16S rRNA), cytochrome b (cyt b) and the hypervariable control region (D‐loop) are routinely used in studies that measure genetic diversity in animal species.
Vimbai I. Siziba, Sandi Willows‐Munro
wiley   +1 more source

Evomimetics : the biomimetic design thinking 2.0 [PDF]

, 2019
The consensus is that nature is a tremendous source of ideas for innovative designs that can meet various specific functional needs, relevant to society. Designs rely on structural, constructional, process-based and behavioral traits that all result from
Adriaens, Dominique
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A higher-level MRP supertree of placental mammals [PDF]

, 2006
Background The higher-level phylogeny of placental mammals has long been a phylogenetic Gordian knot, with disagreement about both the precise contents of, and relationships between, the extant orders.
Robin MD Beck, Olaf RP Bininda-Emonds, Marcel Cardillo, Fu-Guo Liu, Andy Purvis   +4 more
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Digging for answers: contributions of density- and frequency-dependent factors on ectoparasite burden in a social mammal [PDF]

, 2015
Due to the density-dependent nature of parasite transmission parasites are generally assumed to constrain the evolution of sociality. However, evidence for a correlation between group size and parasite burden is equivocal, particularly for mammals.
Archer, EK, Bennett, NC, Faulkes, CG, Lutermann, H   +3 more
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Adult neurogenesis and its anatomical context in the hippocampus of three mole-rat species

Frontiers in Neuroanatomy, 2014
African mole-rats (family Bathyergidae) are small to medium sized, long-lived and strictly subterranean rodents that became valuable animal models as a result of their longevity and diversity in social organization.
Irmgard eAmrein, Anton S Becker, Stefanie eEngler, Shih-hui eHuang, Julian eMüller, Lutz eSlomianka, Maria K Oosthuizen   +6 more
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Form-function relationships in dragonfly mandibles under an evolutionary perspective [PDF]

, 2017
© 2017 The Author(s). Functional requirements may constrain phenotypic diversification or foster it. For insect mouthparts, the quantification of the relationship between shape and function in an evolutionary framework remained largely unexplored.
Blanke, Alexander, Dutel, Hugo, Fagan, Michael J., Patera, Alessandra, Schmitz, Helmut   +4 more
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