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Frontiers in Physiology, 2023 In a wide range of heterothermic mammals, hibernation interrupts the reproductive cycle by forcing reproductive delays. In hibernating bats with delayed fertilization, an opportunity for sperm competition is enhanced by extending a time-window between ...
Takahiro Sato +3 more
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Heterothermy is associated with reduced fitness in wild rabbits [PDF]
Biology Letters, 2017 An increase in variation in the 24 h pattern of body temperature (heterothermy) in mammals can be induced by energy and water deficits. Since performance traits such as growth and reproduction also are impacted by energy and water balance, we investigated whether the characteristics of the body temperature rhythm provide an indication of ...
Shane K. Maloney +3 more
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Searching for the Haplorrhine Heterotherm: Field and Laboratory Data of Free-Ranging Tarsiers
Frontiers in Physiology, 2017 The observation of heterothermy in a single suborder (Strepsirrhini) only within the primates is puzzling. Given that the placental-mammal ancestor was likely a heterotherm, we explored the potential for heterothermy in a primate closely related to the ...
Shaun Welman +2 more
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Frontiers in Physiology, 2020 Daily torpor and hibernation (multiday torpor) are the most efficient means for energy conservation in endothermic birds and mammals and are used by many small species to deal with a number of challenges.
Fritz Geiser
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Increased Diurnal Activity Is Indicative of Energy Deficit in a Nocturnal Mammal, the Aardvark
Frontiers in Physiology, 2020 Shifting activity to cooler times of day buffers animals from increased heat and aridity under climate change. Conversely, when resources are limited, some nocturnal species become more diurnal, reducing energetic costs of keeping warm at night ...
Nora Marie Weyer +12 more
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Cytoskeletal regulation dominates temperature-sensitive proteomic changes of hibernation in forebrain of 13-lined ground squirrels. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 13-lined ground squirrels, Ictidomys tridecemlineatus, are obligate hibernators that transition annually between summer homeothermy and winter heterothermy - wherein they exploit episodic torpor bouts.
Allyson G Hindle, Sandra L Martin
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Lifelong Effects of Thermal Challenges During Development in Birds and Mammals
Frontiers in Physiology, 2020 Before they develop competent endothermy, mammals and birds are sensitive to fluctuating temperature. It follows that early life thermal environment can trigger changes to the ontogeny of thermoregulatory control.
Andreas Nord, Sylvain Giroud
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Modelling mammalian energetics: the heterothermy problem [PDF]
Climate Change Responses, 2016 Global climate change is expected to have strong effects on the world’s flora and fauna. As a result, there has been a recent increase in the number of meta-analyses and mechanistic models that attempt to predict potential responses of mammals to changing climates.
Levesque, DL, Nowack, J, Stawski, C
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Avian Reproduction in a Warming World
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2020 Weather influences both the distribution and life-history strategies of birds. Temperature ranks amongst the more important weather parameters in this regard since warming springs in temperate and high latitudes and more frequent heat-waves globally have
Fredrik Andreasson +2 more
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A new thermoregulatory index for heterothermy
Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 2013 Summary The controlled adjustment of body temperature (Tb) by animals in relation to ambient temperature (Ta), or heterothermy, is a phenomenon that has a clear adaptive value. Heterothermy results in a substantial reduction in energy expenditure and water loss, but it also incurs costs, such as the energy cost required for rewarming, energy cost of ...
Agustí Muñoz‐Garcia +4 more
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