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All in the Details: A First Assessment for the Viability of Metabarcoding in Diet Composition Analysis of African Wild Dogs (Lycaon pictus). [PDF]

Ecol Evol
This study provides the first results on the diet of the African Wild dog obtained through DNA metabarcoding of faecal samples. Impala was identified as a key prey item which supports existing literature on the species. Smaller mammal species such as the Cape hare, francolins and vlei rats were also identified which may indicate more opportunistic and ...
O'Connor BC, Crossey B, Hall G, Ganswindt A, Oosthuizen CJ.   +4 more
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Mammarenaviruses of Rodents, South Africa and Zimbabwe. [PDF]

Emerg Infect Dis, 2021
We conducted a survey for group-specific indirect immunofluorescence antibody to mammarenaviruses by using Lassa fever and Mopeia virus antigens on serum specimens of 5,363 rodents of 33 species collected in South Africa and Zimbabwe during 1964–1994 ...
Grobbelaar AA, Jardine J, Burt FJ, Shepherd AJ, Shepherd SP, Leman PA, Kemp A, Braack LEO, Weyer J, Paweska JT, Swanepoel R.   +10 more
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Otomys angoniensis Wroughton 1906

, 1993
Otomys angoniensis Wroughton, 1906. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 7, 18:274. TYPE LOCALITY: Malawi, Misuku Range, Matipa Forest, 7000 ft (as refined by Ansell and Dowsett, 1991). DISTRIBUTION: SE savannah and grasslands, from S Kenya to NE Cape Province, South Africa.
Musser, Guy G., Carleton, Michael D.
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Establishing enzyme immunoassays for quantifying fecal glucocorticoid metabolites in six southern African rodents using biological and physiological stimuli

Frontiers in Conservation Science
IntroductionGlobal landscape transformations and increased resource use are leading to an overall decline in ecosystem health and natural habitat quality.
Mmatsawela Ramahlo, Mmatsawela Ramahlo, Michael J. Somers, Daniel W. Hart, André Ganswindt   +4 more
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Otomys angoniensis Wroughton 1906

, 1982
Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Rodentia (Part 3), pp. 392-476 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc.
Honacki, James H., Kinman, Kenneth E., Koeppl, James W.   +2 more
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Morphological variations of auditory bullae in otomyine rodents (Rodentia: Otomyini) in southern African biomes

Journal of Morphology, Volume 285, Issue 2, February 2024.
Otomyine species that inhabit regions with low annual rainfall have larger bullar volumes, and more anterior‐facing meatuses. This pattern is also found within Myotomys unisulcatus, though bullar shape did not differ between regions. Abstract Mammalian middle ear cavities differ from those of other taxa as they comprise three ossicles and in rodents ...
Shelley Edwards, Rochelle Bessinger
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Adaptation in brain structure and respiratory and olfactory structures across environmental gradients in African and North American muroid rodents

Integrative Zoology, Volume 19, Issue 1, Page 165-181, January 2024.
Based on 174 cranial 3D images, when considering allometric and phylogenetic constraints, muroid rodents showed potentially adaptive responses to aridity in the bulla, cochlea, paraflocculi, and olfactory lobes of the brain and to high elevation in endocranial volume and the respiratory turbinate bone of the nasal capsule. Abstract Morphometric studies
Peter J. TAYLOR, Aluwani NENGOVHELA, Christiane DENYS, Graham R. SCOTT, Catherine M. IVY   +4 more
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Light sensitivity and diel activity rhythms in the Angoni vlei rat ( Otomys angoniensis ) under natural and artificial conditions

Chronobiology International
Artificial light at night (ALAN) can disrupt daily rhythms of wildlife, yet little is known about its effects on African rodents. We investigated the diel activity rhythms of the Angoni vlei rat (Otomys angoniensis), a species with an inconclusive temporal niche.
Tasha Oosthuizen, Neville Pillay, Maria K. Oosthuizen   +2 more
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Counter-gradient variation and the expensive tissue hypothesis explain parallel brain size reductions at high elevation in cricetid and murid rodents. [PDF]

Sci Rep, 2023
Nengovhela A, Ivy CM, Scott GR, Denys C, Taylor PJ.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Quaternary rodents of South Africa: A companion guide for cranio-dental identification. [PDF]

PLoS One, 2023
Linchamps P, Avery DM, Cornette R, Denys C, Matthews T, Stoetzel E.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source