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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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Gut Microbiome Changes in Captive Plateau Zokors (Eospalax baileyi) [PDF]

Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 2021
Wild-caught animals must cope with drastic lifestyle and dietary changes after being induced to captivity. How the gut microbiome structure of these animals will change in response receives increasing attention. The plateau zokor ( Eospalax baileyi), a typic subterranean rodent endemic to the Qinghai-Tibet plateau, spends almost the whole life ...
Liu, Daoxin, Song, Pengfei, Yan, Jingyan, Wang, Haijing, Cai, Zhenyuan, Xie, Jiuxiang, Zhang, Tongzuo   +6 more
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Climate Change-Induced Range Expansion of a Subterranean Rodent: Implications for Rangeland Management in Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2015
Disturbances, both human-induced and natural, may re-shape ecosystems by influencing their composition, structure, and functional processes. Plateau zokor (Eospalax baileyi) is a typical subterranean rodent endemic to Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau (QTP), which
Junhu Su, Achyut Aryal, Achyut Aryal, Zhibiao Nan, Weihong Ji   +4 more
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Helminth and Protozoan Parasites of Subterranean Rodents (Chordata, Mammalia, Rodentia) of the World [PDF]

, 2023
Published studies and ten new unpublished records included herein reveal that approximately 174 species of endoparasites (helminths and protozoans) are known from 65 of 163 species of rodents that occupy the subterranean ecotope globally.
Dursahinhan, Altangerel Tsogtsaikhan, Gardner, Scott Lyell, Kenkel, Daniel A.   +2 more
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Increased availability of preferred food and decreased foraging costs from degraded grasslands lead to rodent pests in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2022
The increased population density of rodent species during ongoing grassland degradation further deteriorates its conditions. Understanding the effects of grassland degradation on rodent feeding habits is of great value for optimizing grassland management
Caijun Zhang, Caijun Zhang, Yukun Kang, Yukun Kang, Baohui Yao, Baohui Yao, Kang An, Kang An, Qiangsheng Pu, Qiangsheng Pu, Zhicheng Wang, Zhicheng Wang, Xiaomei Sun, Xiaomei Sun, Junhu Su, Junhu Su   +15 more
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Human activities modulate reciprocal effects of a subterranean ecological engineer rodent, Tachyoryctes macrocephalus, on Afroalpine vegetation cover

Ecology and Evolution, Volume 13, Issue 7, July 2023., 2023
In our study, we tested how human activities in terms of livestock grazing and settlements affect the reciprocal effects between vegetation and giant root‐rats. Our results show that increasing livestock grazing intensity causes increases in giant root‐rat burrow density indirectly through decreased vegetation cover.
Addisu Asefa, Victoria Reuber, Georg Miehe, Luise Wraase, Tilaye Wube, Dana G. Schabo, Nina Farwig   +6 more
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Himalayan Marmot (Marmota himalayana) Redistribution to High Latitudes under Climate Change [PDF]

, 2023
Climate warming and human activities impact the expansion and contraction of species distribution. The Himalayan marmot (Marmota himalayana) is a unique mammal and an ecosystem engineer in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau (QTP).
An K, Kang Y, Su J, Tan Y, Wang Y, Wang Z, Yao B   +6 more
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Sympatric Speciation in Mole Rats and Wild Barley and Their Genome Repeatome Evolution: A Commentary

Advanced Genetics, Volume 3, Issue 4, December 2022., 2022
Our discovery in subterranean mammals and wild barley that noncoding genome or repeatome shows a mirror image of the coding genome suggests that they are both selected by the same ecological stresses and are both functionally adaptive. Abstract The theories of sympatric speciation (SS) and coding and noncoding (cd and ncd =repeatome) genome function ...
Eviatar Nevo, Kexin Li
wiley   +1 more source

Gut Microbiome Alterations and Hepatic Metabolic Flexibility in the Gansu Zokor, Eospalax cansus: Adaptation to Hypoxic Niches

Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine, 2022
The Gansu zokor (Eospalax cansus), a typical subterranean rodent endemic to the Chinese Loess Plateau, spends almost its whole life in its self-constructed underground burrows and has strong adaptability to ambient hypoxia.
Jinyan Lin, Qi Yang, Juanjuan Guo, Meng Li, Zhiqiang Hao, Jianping He, Jingang Li   +6 more
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The role of herbivores in the grassland carbon budget for Three‐Rivers Headwaters region, Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau, China

Grassland Research, Volume 1, Issue 3, Page 207-219, September 2022., 2022
The herbivore carbon budget was estimated by an animal metabolic model developed in the Three‐Rivers Headwaters region. The livestock contributed 88% of the total consumed carbon that was returned 44% to grassland as feces and urine, and 40% through respiration and the remaining 4% in wildlife and 13% in livestock.
Junbang Wang, Xinquan Zhao, Xihuang Ouyang, Liang Zhao, Wenying Wang, Chan Zuo, Zhenhua Zhang, Huakun Zhou, Alan Watson, Yingnian Li, Jin‐Sheng He   +10 more
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