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Living Low and Dry: Costs of and Resilience to Soil Hydric Stress in a Fossorial Amphisbaenian Reptile

open access: yesIntegrative Zoology, EarlyView.
Soil drought imposes moderate, temporary costs on a strictly fossorial amphisbaenian reptile. However, these animals seem to cope with, at least, moderately short droughts thanks to their peculiar adaptations to living in an underground environment. ABSTRACT The physiological traits of animals can be strongly influenced by climatic fluctuations, and ...
José Martín   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Beyond Sexual Selection: Natural Selection Related Camouflage and Thermoregulation Shape Sexual Color Dimorphism in Diploderma Lizards

open access: yesIntegrative Zoology, EarlyView.
Integrating comparative spectrometry, image analysis, and thermal modeling, we reveal that (1) females optimize crypsis via background matching, (2) males prioritize high‐contrast disruptive patterning at a significant thermoregulatory cost (reduced solar heat gain), and (3) habitat‐specific monomorphism in Diploderma slowinskii underscores ecological ...
Yuning Cao, Lin Shi, Yin Qi
wiley   +1 more source

Blubber Thickening Driven by UCP1 Inactivation: Insights from a Cetacean‐Like Transgenic Mouse Model

open access: yesIntegrative Zoology, EarlyView.
UCP1 inactivation of cetaceans in mice drives BAT whitening and iWAT hyperplasia, promoting fat accumulation for aquatic adaptation. Abstract Cetaceans possess thick blubber, a specialized adipose tissue essential for thermal insulation, a streamlined body form, energy storage, and buoyancy. However, the mechanisms that underpin this adaptation are not
Qian Zhang   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Short-term change in water availability influences thermoregulation behaviors in a dry-skinned ectotherm

open access: green, 2020
David Rozen‐Rechels   +5 more
openalex   +1 more source

Aerospace medicine and biology: A continuing bibliography with indexes (supplement 331) [PDF]

open access: yes
This bibliography lists 129 reports, articles and other documents introduced into the NASA Scientific and Technical Information System during December, 1989.

core   +1 more source

Regional heterothermy in Megasoma gyas is not related to active heat dissipation by the horns

open access: yes
Insect Science, EarlyView.
Danilo Giacometti   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

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