A Neuroscientist's Guide to the Vole
Current Protocols, 2021 AbstractPrairie voles have emerged as an important rodent model for understanding the neuroscience of social behavior. Prairie voles are well known for their capacity for pair bonding and alloparental care. These behavioral phenomena overlap with human social behavior but are not commonly observed in traditional rodent models.
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Large-scale remote sensing model enables an integrated monitoring approach for high-resolution tracking pest vole populations [PDF]
Scientific ReportsGrassland voles pose significant challenges to agriculture and public health due to their population outbreaks. Traditional monitoring methods are labor-intensive and costly, particularly in heterogeneous landscapes.
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VolE: A point-cloud framework for food 3D reconstruction and volume estimation [PDF]
Scientific ReportsAccurate food volume estimation is crucial for medical nutrition management and health monitoring applications. However, existing methods for estimating food volume are often constrained by the use of monocular data.
Umair Haroon +4 more
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The evolutionary history of the field vole species complex revealed by modern and ancient genomes [PDF]
Genome BiologyBackground The field vole, an abundant and widespread microtine rodent, is a complex comprised of three cryptic species: the short-tailed field vole (Microtus agrestis) which is present over much of Eurasia, the Mediterranean field vole (Microtus ...
Mateusz Baca +30 more
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Discovery and characterization of Sager Creek virus, a new orthohantavirus in prairie voles (Microtus ochrogaster) [PDF]
npj VirusesWe report the discovery and characterization of a new orthohantavirus species in prairie voles (Microtus ochrogaster) named Sager Creek virus (SACRV).
Nathaniel Mull +6 more
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Zoonotic Cryptosporidium spp. in Wild Rodents and Shrews
Microorganisms, 2021 There has been a significant increase in the number of reported human cryptosporidiosis cases in recent years. The aim of this study is to estimate the prevalence of Cryptosporidium spp.
Rauni Kivistö +4 more
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Small rodent monitoring at Birkebeiner Road, Norway [PDF]
Biodiversity Data Journal, 2023 Northern small mammal populations are renowned for their multi-annual population cycles. Population cycles are multi-faceted and have extensive impacts on the rest of the ecosystem.
Magne Neby +7 more
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Host-Dependent Clustering of Campylobacter Strains From Small Mammals in Finland
Frontiers in Microbiology, 2021 Small mammals are known to carry Campylobacter spp.; however, little is known about the genotypes and their role in human infections. We studied intestinal content from small wild mammals collected in their natural habitats in Finland in 2010–2017, and ...
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Boreal species Microtus agrestis and Sicista betulina in the region of the Ukrainian Carpathians: a review [PDF]
Праці Теріологічної школи, 2017 The paper deals with the peculiarities of distribution of the field vole (M. agrestis) and the northern birch mouse (S. betulina) in the region of the Ukrainian Carpathians, which are the southern range edge of these species.
Zoltán Barkaszi
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Tularemia Outbreaks in Spain from 2007 to 2020 in Humans and Domestic and Wild Animals
Pathogens, 2021 In this study, tularemia outbreaks associated with humans and several domestic and wild animals (Iberian hares, wild rabbits, voles, mice, grey shrews, sheep, dogs, foxes, wolves, ticks, and river crayfish) are reported in Spain from 2007 to 2020 ...
Olga Mínguez-González +13 more
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