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On the importance of including both sexes in animal studies – insights from home‐cage monitoring

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A review of behavioural studies using home‐cage monitoring (HCM) systems revealed that over 61% of studies used only male subjects, with only 24% including both sexes, despite evidence of substantial behavioural differences between male and female animals. This bias could influence the outcomes of biomedical research.
Maša Čater, Adam Dušek, Aleksandra Bartelik, Silvia Mandillo, Elisabetta Golini, Mara Rigamonti, Rasneer Sonia Bains, Hamish Forrest, Marion Rivalan, Melissa Long, Anna Kiryk, Lars Lewejohann, Nuno Henrique Franco   +12 more
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Impacts of invasive rats on Hawaiian cave resources

International Journal of Speleology, 2020
Although there are no published studies and limited data documenting damage by rodents in Hawaiian caves, our incidental observations during more than 40 years of surveying caves indicate that introduced rodents, especially the roof rat, Rattus rattus ...
Francis G. Howarth, Fred D. Stone
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What drives animal responses to high severity fire? The role of functional traits

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Fire regimes are changing worldwide, with increases in the frequency, extent, and severity of fires posing growing risks to biodiversity. Fire severity – the degree of habitat alteration following fire – strongly influences both immediate survival and long‐term recovery of fauna.
Grace A. Vielleux, Trent D. Penman, Victoria A. Reynolds, Matthew H. Swan   +3 more
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Animal empathy reconsidered: a multidimensional profile account

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Empathy is the glue that holds societies together and yet several fundamental questions about empathy persist. What is empathy (the definitional question)? Is it uniquely human and, if not, which nonhuman animals possess empathy (the distribution question)? Which type or quality of empathy is realized in different species (the quality question)
Albert Newen, Maja Griem, Ludwig Huber, Thomas Bugnyar, Aaron Blaisdell, Simone Pika   +5 more
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COMPARATIVE STUDY OF ANAPLASMA IN JAPAN AND OTHER COUNTRIES

Acta Biomedica Scientifica, 2012
To determine the reservoir animals and vector ticks for Anaplasma phagocytophilum in Far East Asia, which causes human granulocytic anaplasmosis, we analyzed tissue samples from deer and boars in Japan rodents in Taiwan and.
T. .. Masuzawa, N. .. Ohashi, M. A. Khasnatinov, G. A. Danchinova, L. I. Ivanov, T. .. Fukui, Y. .. Okamoto, M. J. Pan, N. .. Koizumi   +8 more
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Historic black rat invasions into Sri Lanka lead to hybridization forming two sub-lineages in the Rattus rattus species complex

Ceylon Journal of Science, 2020
In this work, we used two mitochondrial (16S rRNA and cytochrome-b) and one nuclear (Rag 1) gene fragments to analyse phylogeographic history of black rats in Sri Lanka at subspecies level.
P. P. C. Hemamali, S. H. Boyagoda
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How developmental stressors affect mitochondrial respiratory function: a systematic review and meta‐analysis

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The environmental conditions organisms experience during early development can have powerful and sustained effects on morphology, physiology, behaviour, and performance. Such developmental effects can influence reproductive success, survival, and life‐history strategies and can be transmitted across generations (i.e.
Ondi L. Crino, Christopher R. Friesen, Geoffrey E. Hill, Dalton C. Leibold, Pablo Recio, Karine Salin, Kristoffer H. Wild, Daniel W.A. Noble   +7 more
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Morphologic, Morphometric and Molecular Comparison of Two Sister Species of Rodents as Potential Reservoir Hosts of Zoonotic Cutaneous Leishmaniasis in the Southwest of Iran

Journal of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, 2019
Introduction: Rodents are reservoir hosts of various infectious diseases. Many species and subspecies of genus Rattus play a significant role as potential reservoir hosts of different emerging and re-emerging diseases, including leishmaniasis.
Seyedeh Maryam Ghafari, Vahoora Ebadatgar, Somayeh Mohammadi, Sahar Ebrahimi, Ali Bordbar, Parviz Parvizi   +5 more
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Bridging the Gap Between Human Toxicology and Ecotoxicology Under One Health Perspective by a Cross‐Species Adverse Outcome Pathway Network for Reproductive Toxicity

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, EarlyView.
Cross‐species extrapolation of adverse outcome pathway network on reproductive toxicity under the One Health perspective using new approach methodologies. AOP = adverse outcome pathway. Abstract Although ecotoxicological and toxicological risk assessments are performed separately from each other, recent efforts have been made in both disciplines to ...
Elizabeth Dufourcq Sekatcheff, Jaeseong Jeong, Jinhee Choi   +2 more
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Molecular characterization of two hantavirus strains from different rattus species in Singapore

Virology Journal, 2010
Background Hantaviruses cause human disease in endemic regions around the world. Outbreaks of hantaviral diseases have been associated with changes in rodent population density and adaptation to human settlements leading to their proliferation in close ...
Kek Relus, Siew Chern-Chiang, Low Hwee-Teng, Yap Grace, Johansson Patrik, Ng Lee-Ching, Bucht Göran   +6 more
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