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Parasitology, 2023 Rodents living in a subterranean ecotope face a unique combination of evolutionary and ecological pressures and while host species evolution may be driven by the selective pressure from the parasites they harbour, the parasites may be responding to the ...
Altangerel T. Dursahinhan +2 more
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Spatial Learning and Memory in the Naked Mole-Rat: Evolutionary Adaptations to a Subterranean Niche
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2022 Evolutionary adaptation to a subterranean habitat consisting of extensive underground tunnel systems would presumably require adept spatial learning and memory, however, such capabilities have not been characterized to date in naked mole-rats ...
Natalee J. Hite +3 more
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Retinal cone photoreceptors of the deer mouse Peromyscus maniculatus : development, topography, opsin expression and spectral tuning [PDF]
, 2013 A quantitative analysis of photoreceptor properties was performed in the retina of the nocturnal deer mouse, Peromyscus maniculatus, using pigmented (wildtype) and albino animals.
Arbogast, Patrick +2 more
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Basic and Applied Ecology, 2022 Subterranean rodents can act as ecosystem engineers by shaping the landscape due to soil perturbation and herbivory. At the same time, their burrow density is affected by environmental conditions, vegetation and anthropogenic factors.
Addisu Asefa +7 more
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Life Underground: the Biology of Subterranean Rodents
Ethology, 2001 SUBTERRANEAN rodents are intriguing subjects for research. On the one hand they display extreme variability in social organisation and life history, and exhibit a range of unique adaptations in morphology and physiology that allow exploitation of different habitats.
EA Lacey, JL Patton, GN Cameron
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Subterranean Life-Style Does Not Limit Long Distance Dispersal in African Mole-Rats
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2022 Dispersal from the natal site to breeding sites is a crucial phase in the life history of animals and can have profound effects on the reproductive ecology and the structure of animal societies.
Kyle T. Finn +4 more
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Personality underground: evidence of behavioral types in the solitary subterranean rodent Ctenomys talarum [PDF]
PeerJ, 2020 Background Animal personalities have been studied in a wide variety of taxa, but among rodents, available studies are relatively scarce and have focused mainly on social species.
María Sol Fanjul, Roxana R. Zenuto
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BMC Ecology and Evolution, 2021 Background Mitochondrial genes encode proteins involved in oxidative phosphorylation. Variations in lifestyle and ecological niche can be directly reflected in metabolic performance.
Olga V. Bondareva +4 more
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Seismic Signaling for Detection of Empty Tunnels in the Plateau Zokor, Eospalax baileyi
Animals, 2023 There are considerable challenges involved in studying the behavior of subterranean rodents owing to the underground nature of their ecotope. Seismic communication plays a crucial role in the behavior of subterranean rodents, particularly solitary ones ...
Kechi Dong +6 more
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Dispersal and population structure at different spatial scales in the subterranean rodent Ctenomys australis [PDF]
, 2010 This study was funded by grants from Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET, PIP5838), Agencia de Promoción Científica y Tecnológica de la Argentina (PICTO1-423, BID-1728/OC-AR), and the programme ECOS-Sud France/Argentina ...
Gaggiotti, Oscar E. +4 more
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