Adult neurogenesis and its anatomical context in the hippocampus of three mole-rat species
Frontiers in Neuroanatomy, 2014 African mole-rats (family Bathyergidae) are small to medium sized, long-lived and strictly subterranean rodents that became valuable animal models as a result of their longevity and diversity in social organization.
Irmgard eAmrein +6 more
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Ecology and Evolution, 2023 Human activities, directly and indirectly, impact ecological engineering activities of subterranean rodents. As engineering activities of burrowing rodents are affected by, and reciprocally affect vegetation cover via feeding, burrowing and mound ...
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Transcriptome sequencing and phylogenomic resolution within Spalacidae (Rodentia) [PDF]
, 2014 BACKGROUND: Subterranean mammals have been of great interest for evolutionary biologists because of their highly specialized traits for the life underground. Owing to the convergence of morphological traits and the incongruence of molecular evidence, the
Eviatar Nevo +8 more
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Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2022 Ansell’s mole-rats (Fukomys anselli) are sexually dimorphic subterranean rodents that live in families consisting of a single breeding pair and their late-dispersing non-breeding offspring.
Sabine Begall +2 more
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ACTIVITY PATTERNS IN A SUBTERRANEAN SOCIAL RODENT, SPALACOPUS CYANUS (OCTODONTIDAE) [PDF]
Journal of Mammalogy, 2002 Daily patterns of activity were studied under laboratory conditions in 12 coruros, Spalacopus cyanus, subterranean social rodents originally from Chile. When able to burrow, coruros spent 90% of the total time underground, and surface activity occurred during the 1st hours of darkness. When prevented from burrowing, locomotory activity of coruro groups
Begall, Sabine +3 more
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Comparative analysis of thyroid hormone systems in rodents with subterranean lifestyle
Scientific Reports, 2023 African mole-rats are subterranean rodents inhabiting underground burrows. This habitat entails risks of overheating, hypoxia, and scarce food availability.
Patricia Gerhardt +11 more
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Influence of environmental heterogeneity on the distribution and persistence of a subterranean rodent in a highly unstable landscape [PDF]
, 2016 O.E.G was supported by the Marine Alliance for Science and Technology for Scotland.In this study we combine information from landscape characteristics, demographic inference and species distribution modelling to identify environmental factors that shape ...
Boston, Emma S.M. +4 more
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Characterization of the transcriptome, nucleotide sequence polymorphism, and natural selection in the desert adapted mouse Peromyscus eremicus [PDF]
, 2014 As a direct result of intense heat and aridity, deserts are thought to be among the most harsh of environments, particularly for their mammalian inhabitants. Given that osmoregulation can be challenging for these animals, with failure resulting in death,
Eisen, Michael B, MacManes, Matthew D
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Data in Brief, 2017 The data presented in this article are related to the research article entitled âMolecular adaptive convergence in the α-globin gene in subterranean octodontid rodentsâ (Tomasco et al., 2017) [1].
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Modeling natural photic entrainment in a subterranean rodent (Ctenomys aff. knighti), the Tuco-Tuco. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 Subterranean rodents spend most of the day inside underground tunnels, where there is little daily change in environmental variables. Our observations of tuco-tucos (Ctenomys aff.
Danilo E F L Flôres +4 more
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