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Comparative Genomics and Functional Evidence for Convergent Adaptation to Hypoxia in Mammals

Integrative Zoology, EarlyView.
This study reveals convergent selection in mammals adapted to hypoxia. Functional assays demonstrate that amino acid mutations reduce oxidative stress, attenuate hypoxia‐induced injury, and modulate the hypoxia‐inducible transcription factor (HIF)‐driven hypoxic response.
Hao Dong, Chunxu Wang, Enqing Pei, Liang Zhao, Simin Chai, Ran Tian   +5 more
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Gut Microbiota Provide Co‐Existing Strategies for Two Species of Symmetrically Distributed Rodents in Competition for Food

Ecology and Evolution, Volume 15, Issue 10, October 2025.
Gut microbiota provides an effective strategy for sympatric proximal species to coexist in interspecific competition. ABSTRACT Gut microbiota provides an effective strategy for sympatric proximal species to coexist in interspecific competition. In the present study, 16S rRNA gene sequencing was used to investigate the gut microbial of the Cricetulus ...
Yue Ren, Mengfan Tao, Guangtong Guo, Kuiyou Chen, Xinsheng Pu, Yu Hou, Xin'gen Yang   +6 more
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Giardia duodenalis in Rodents: A Global Systematic Review and Meta‐Analysis

Veterinary Medicine and Science, Volume 11, Issue 5, September 2025.
‐ Giardia duodenalis (also known as G. lamblia or G. intestinalis) is a globally distributed protozoan with zoonotic potential. ‐ This systematic review and meta‐analysis aimed to determine the global molecular prevalence and genotypic distribution of G. duodenalis in rodents, based exclusively on studies using molecular diagnostic techniques. ABSTRACT
Tahereh Davoodi, Jalil Feizi, Kambiz Karimi, Mohammad Reza Mohammadi, Ali Pouryousef, Esfandiar Azizi, Ali Asghari, Fariba Shadfar   +7 more
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Differential Response of Community Biomass Temporal‐ and Spatial‐ Stabilities to Nitrogen Addition in an Alpine Meadow on the Tibetan Plateau

Journal of Vegetation Science, Volume 36, Issue 3, May/June 2025.
This study investigates how nitrogen addition affects temporal and spatial stability of community biomass in alpine meadows. Using 5 years of experimental data, it highlights the key roles of dominant species' asynchrony and shows that nitrogen addition enhances temporal but not spatial stability, despite reduced species richness, emphasizing the need ...
Yang Bai, Wenjun Wang, Zhenyu Luo, Tong'an Wei, Pengfei Zhang   +4 more
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Losses of low‐germinating, slow‐growing species prevent grassland composition recovery from nutrient amendment

Global Change Biology, Volume 30, Issue 4, April 2024.
An incomplete recovery in plant diversity and a directional shift in species composition from grass dominance to forb dominance were observed, and the historically dominant sedges with low germination rate and slow growth rate and nitrogen‐fixing legumes with low germination rate were unable to re‐establish after nutrient addition ceased.
Zhongling Yang, Junyong Li, Rui Xiao, Chunhui Zhang, Xiaojun Ma, Guozhen Du, Guoyong Li, Lin Jiang   +7 more
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Dynamic changes in the home range of the subterranean rodent Myospalax baileyi

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2022
As ecosystem engineers, subterranean rodents excavate and inhabit burrow systems. However, the changes in their use of underground space are poorly recorded.
Jianwei Zhou, Jianwei Zhou, Chengpeng Ji, Kechi Dong, Bin Chu, Liqing Wang, Limin Hua   +6 more
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Microbial community composition in the dung of five sympatric European herbivore species

Ecology and Evolution, Volume 14, Issue 3, March 2024.
Abstract The dung microbiome is a complex system that is highly influenced by species and diet. This study characterized the dung bacterial and fungal communities of five herbivore species inhabiting the National Park Zuid‐Kennemerland, the Netherlands.
Xingzhao Sun, Judith Sitters, Joske Ruytinx, Martin J. Wassen, Harry Olde Venterink   +4 more
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Alpine grassland degradation intensifies the burrowing behavior of small mammals: evidence for a negative feedback loop

Integrative Zoology, Volume 19, Issue 2, Page 240-252, March 2024.
Our study demonstrates the changes of behaviour, increased burrowing and enlarged colony territories, of pikas in response to grassland degradation. Our results indicate that the negative impact of plateau pikas on grasslands is through such changes of burrowing and ranging behaviors instead of “population explosion” due to their preference of degraded
Zaiwei WANG, Jiawen YAN, Amy MARTIN, Dianne H. BRUNTON, Jiapeng QU, Jin‐Sheng HE, Weihong JI, Zhibiao NAN   +7 more
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Topographic barriers drive the pronounced genetic subdivision of a range‐limited fossorial rodent

Molecular Ecology, Volume 33, Issue 5, March 2024.
Abstract Due to their limited dispersal ability, fossorial species with predominantly belowground activity usually show increased levels of population subdivision across relatively small spatial scales. This may be exacerbated in harsh mountain ecosystems, where landscape geomorphology limits species' dispersal ability and leads to small effective ...
Victoria M. Reuber, Michael V. Westbury, Alba Rey‐Iglesia, Addisu Asefa, Nina Farwig, Georg Miehe, Lars Opgenoorth, Radim Šumbera, Luise Wraase, Tilaye Wube, Eline D. Lorenzen, Dana G. Schabo   +11 more
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Variants of Epas1 contribute to hypoxia adaptation in the subterranean rodents Eospalax and Spalax

Life Science Alliance
Subterranean rodents from China and Israel reveal convergent EPAS1 adaptation to hypoxia environments. Chinese zokors harbor a stabilizing T480S variant, whereas blind mole rats in Israel show regulatory variants linking transcription to interferons ...
Yibin Cao, Mengchen Zhang, Xin Li, Tianfu Yu, Yi Li, Hua Wang, Mengqi Liu, Xiaokang Xu, Fangyuan Xia, Kexin Li, Qiang Chen, Honghao Yu, Dengbang Wei, Yang Zhao, Eviatar Nevo, Jizeng Du, Xuequn Chen   +16 more
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