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Studies in Family Planning, EarlyView.Abstract Personally important decisions, like reproductive choices, may be challenging for individuals with clinical depressiveness, as indecisiveness is a common depressive symptom. This study examines whether decision‐making modes related to reproductive behavior differ between individuals with and without clinical depressiveness (H1) and whether ...
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Nature CommunicationsTorpor is a state of hypometabolism accompanied by a reduction in body temperature, which serves as a survival strategy enabling animals to endure harsh environments.
Sheikh Mizanur Rahaman +8 more
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Mammal Review, Volume 56, Issue 3, September 2026.Review on the outcomes of long‐term, individual‐based monitoring for bat conservation, focusing on data generated by automated passive integrated transponder monitoring. We show that this technique offers new possibilities for long‐term bat monitoring by facilitating the collection of highly relevant conservation data.
Gerald Kerth +5 more
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Biological Reviews, Volume 101, Issue 4, Page 1627-1640, August 2026.ABSTRACT Among the vertebrates, mammals are notable for the dominance of live birth and placental nutrition. The structural diversity of the mammalian placenta is remarkable, despite sharing a single common ancestor and conserved physiological functions.
Davis Laundon +5 more
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Ecology and Evolution, Volume 16, Issue 8, August 2026.We evaluated adaptation to torpor and hibernation in the genus Dromiciops by comparing it with both torpid and non‐torpid marsupials, and investigated divergent selection signals between its two species. For the ancestral node, we identified positive selection in the genes PFKFB2, LAMP3, OTX1, and RAPSN, alongside an enrichment of pathways potentially ...
Elisa Gonzalez‐Ugalde +7 more
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Ambient Temperature Cycles Affect Daily Torpor and Hibernation Patterns in Malagasy Tenrecs
Frontiers in Physiology, 2020 Hibernation and daily torpor (heterothermy) allow endotherms to cope with demanding environmental conditions. The depth and duration of torpor bouts vary considerably between tropical and temperate climates, and tropical hibernators manage to cope with a
Kathrin H. Dausmann +3 more
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Ecology and Evolution, Volume 16, Issue 8, August 2026.We investigated age‐related telomere dynamics in the tropical bat Molossus molossus using a long‐term mark‐recapture study of 492 individuals from Panama. We documented a female surviving to at least 13 years, more than doubling the previously reported maximum lifespan, while finding no consistent evidence of age‐related telomere shortening.
Tadhg Lonergan +9 more
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Frontiers in Physiology, 2019 Most mammals and birds are altricial, small and naked at birth/hatching. They attain endothermic thermoregulation at a fraction of their adult size at a vulnerable stage with high heat loss when many could profit from using torpor for energy conservation.
Fritz Geiser +7 more
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Ecology and Evolution, Volume 16, Issue 8, August 2026.Using 25 years of capture data from Fort Campbell Military Installation, we evaluated whether white‐nose syndrome (WNS)‐driven declines in susceptible bats were followed by increases in non‐susceptible species (ecological release) versus shifts driven by land use change, at the installation and site specific spatial scales.
Dakota J. Van Parys +2 more
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