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Seasonal piRNA Expression Profile Changes in the Testes of Plateau Zokor (Eospalax baileyi) [PDF]

Animals
Seasonal reproduction is a mammalian behavior that has developed over an extended evolutionary period and requires animals to respond to external environmental changes to facilitate reproduction.
Zhiyuan Cai, Baohui Yao, Yuchen Tan, Yongjie Liu, Junhu Su   +4 more
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Sex-Based Dietary Divergence in Plateau Pikas (Ochotona curzoniae) but Not Plateau Zokors (Eospalax baileyi) [PDF]

Animals
Quantifying sex-specific dietary differences in small mammals reveals the internal resource allocation mechanisms within a species and provides new insights for ecosystem management and conservation practices.
Feiyang Xue, Xidong Zhu, Le Qin, Yanjun Guo, Jian Sun, Zhengqian Dang, Limin Hua, Bin Chu, Rui Hua   +8 more
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Captivity Shifts Gut Microbiota Communities in Plateau Zokor (Eospalax baileyi) [PDF]

Microorganisms
The gut microbiota in animals is a dynamic ecosystem influenced by both the host itself and the environment it inhabits. It is known that short-term captivity can significantly impact the gut microbiota of plateau zokors, leading to substantial inter ...
Daoxin Liu, Bin Li, Pengfei Song, Feng Jiang, Tongzuo Zhang   +4 more
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Sex differences in gut microbiota composition, function, and assembly in the plateau zokor (Eospalax baileyi) [PDF]

PeerJ
Background Gut microbiota play a vital role in nutrient metabolism, immune regulation, and host homeostasis. However, the role of sex differences in shaping the gut microbiota of plateau zokors (Eospalax baileyi) remains unclear.
Lei Si, Rui Zhang, Jialong Guo, Haijing Wang, Jingyan Yan, Daoxin Liu   +5 more
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Gut microbiota facilitates adaptation of the plateau zokor (Myospalax baileyi) to the plateau living environment [PDF]

Frontiers in Microbiology, 2023
Gut microbiota not only helps the hosts to perform many key physiological functions such as food digestion, energy harvesting and immune regulation, but also influences host ecology and facilitates adaptation of the host to extreme environments.
Bin Hu, Bin Hu, Jiamin Wang, Jiamin Wang, Ying Li, Jin Ge, Jinchao Pan, Gaojian Li, Gaojian Li, Yongcai He, Haishun Zhong, Bo Wang, Bo Wang, Yanyi Huang, Yanyi Huang, Shuyi Han, Shuyi Han, Yanan Xing, Yanan Xing, Hongxuan He   +19 more
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Soil Disturbance of Plateau Zokor (Eospalax baileyi) Promotes the Stability of Alpine Plant Communities [PDF]

Plants
Alpine meadows on the Tibetan Plateau experience chronic, fine-scale disturbances from the plateau zokor (Eospalax baileyi), a subterranean rodent that alters soil and vegetation structure through persistent burrowing and mounding. While classical theory
Xidong Zhu, Feiyang Xue, Zhiying Zhang, Rui Dong, Limin Hua, Guohui Ye   +5 more
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Simulation of Soil Temperature under Plateau Zokor’s (Eospalax baileyi) Disturbance in the Qinghai Lake Watershed, Northeast Qinghai–Tibet Plateau [PDF]

Animals, 2023
The soil temperature is a key factor affecting the fragile terrestrial ecosystems on the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau, and has been remarkably altered by the soil mammal’s disturbance. This study first analyzed the soil temperature variation in grassland, mound,
Ting Xie, Yu-Jun Ma
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Soil Nematodes Regulate Ecosystem Multifunctionality Under Different Zokor Mounds in Qinghai–Tibet Alpine Grasslands [PDF]

Biology
The Qinghai–Tibet Plateau’s alpine grasslands are ecologically vulnerable. Plateau zokors build mounds that modify soil and vegetation, influencing soil biota.
Xiaodong Zhang, Lili Nian, Liangliang Li, Xuelu Liu, Qi Wang   +4 more
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Into Tibet: An Early Pliocene Dispersal of Fossil Zokor (Rodentia: Spalacidae) from Mongolian Plateau to the Hinterland of Tibetan Plateau.

PLoS ONE, 2015
This paper reports the fossil zokors (Myospalacinae) collected from the lower Pliocene (~4.4 Ma) of Zanda Basin, southwestern Tibet, which is the first record in the hinterland of Tibetan Plateau within the Himalayan Range.
Qiang Li, Xiaoming Wang
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Ingesting Stellera chamaejasme Significantly Impacts the Gastrointestinal Tract Bacterial Community and Diversity in Plateau Zokors (Eospalax baileyi) [PDF]

Microorganisms
Intestinal bacteria are considered the “second genome” of the host, playing a crucial physiological role in assisting the host in degrading plant secondary compounds, nutrient absorption, immune regulation, and other aspects.
Jialong Guo, Haijing Wang, Feng Jiang, Daoxin Liu   +3 more
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