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Common Vole as a Focal Small Mammal Species in Orchards of the Northern Zone

Diversity, 2021
In 2018–2020, we performed a country-wide study of small mammals in commercial orchards and berry plantations with the aim of determining whether the common vole (Microtus arvalis) is a more suitable focal species than the field vole (M. agrestis) in the
Vitalijus Stirkė, Linas Balčiauskas, Laima Balčiauskienė   +2 more
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Stable Isotopes Reveal the Dominant Species to Have the Widest Trophic Niche of Three Syntopic Microtus Voles

Animals, 2021
Diets and trophic positions of co-occurring animals are fundamental issues in their ecology, and these issues in syntopic rodents have been studied insufficiently.
Linas Balčiauskas, Raminta Skipitytė, Andrius Garbaras, Vitalijus Stirkė, Laima Balčiauskienė, Vidmantas Remeikis   +5 more
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Experimental demonstration of the antiherbivore effects of silica in grasses: impacts on foliage digestibility and vole growth rates [PDF]

, 2006
The impact of plant-based factors on the population dynamics of mammalian herbivores has been the subject of much debate in ecology, but the role of antiherbivore defences in grasses has received relatively little attention.
Hartley, Susan, Massey, F. P.
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Diabetes in Danish bank voles (M. glareolus): survivorship, influence on weight, and evaluation of polydipsia as a screening tool for hyperglycaemia. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2011
BACKGROUND: Previous studies have concluded that the development of polydipsia (PD, a daily water intake ≥ 21 ml) among captive Danish bank voles, is associated with the development of a type 1 diabetes (T1D), based on findings of hyperglycaemia ...
Bryan Schønecker, Tonny Freimanis, Irene Vejgaard Sørensen   +2 more
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Reproductive Isolation Between Taxonomically Controversial Forms of the Gray Voles (Microtus, Rodentia; Arvicolinae): Cytological Mechanisms and Taxonomical Implications

Frontiers in Genetics, 2021
The formation of hybrid sterility is an important stage of speciation. The voles of the genus Microtus, which is the most speciose genus of rodents, provide a good model for studying the cytological mechanisms of hybrid sterility.
Tatiana I. Bikchurina, Tatiana I. Bikchurina, Fedor N. Golenishchev, Elena A. Kizilova, Elena A. Kizilova, Ahmad Mahmoudi, Pavel M. Borodin, Pavel M. Borodin   +7 more
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Early-life sleep disruption increases parvalbumin in primary somatosensory cortex and impairs social bonding in prairie voles

Science Advances, 2019
Sleep is critical for proper sensory and social development in young prairie voles, an affiliative and monogamous rodent species. Across mammals, juveniles sleep more than adults, with rapid eye movement (REM) sleep at a lifetime maximum early in life ...
Carolyn E. Jones, R. Opel, M. Kaiser, Alex Q. Chau, J. Quintana, Michelle A. Nipper, D. Finn, E. Hammock, M. Lim   +8 more
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Grasses and the resource availability hypothesis: the importance of silica-based defences [PDF]

, 2007
The resource availability hypothesis (RAH) predicts that allocation of resources to anti-herbivore defences differs between species according to their growth rate.
Ennos, Roland A., Hartley, Susan, Massey, Fergus P.   +2 more
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The Value of Comparative Animal Research : Krogh’s Principle Facilitates Scientific Discoveries [PDF]

, 2017
There are no conflicts of interest to declare. This paper developed from the 2016 Early Career Impact Award from the Federation of Associations in Behavioral & Brain Sciences to TJS. TJS has received funding from The Leverhulme Trust.
Alward, Beau A., Ebling, Francis J. P., Fernald, Russell D., Kelly, Aubrey, Ophir, Alexander G., Stevenson, Tyler J   +5 more
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Subpopulation augmentation among habitat patches as a tool to manage an endangered Mojave Desert wetlands-dependent rodent during anthropogenic restricted water climate regimes.

PLoS ONE, 2019
Intensive management may be necessary to protect some highly vulnerable endangered species, particularly those dependent on water availability regimes that might be disrupted by ongoing climate change. The Amargosa vole (Microtus californicus scirpensis)
Andrés M López-Pérez, Janet Foley, Austin Roy, Risa Pesapane, Stephanie Castle, Amanda Poulsen, Deana L Clifford   +6 more
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Reduced Consolation Behaviors in Physically Stressed Mandarin Voles: Involvement of Oxytocin, Dopamine D2, and Serotonin 1A Receptors Within the Anterior Cingulate Cortex

International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology, 2019
Background Consolation is a type of empathy-like behavior that has recently been observed in some socially living rodents. Despite the growing body of literature suggesting that stress affects empathy, the relationship between stress and consolation ...
Lai-fu Li, Wei Yuan, Zhixiong He, Huan Ma, Yufeng Xun, Lingrong Meng, Siteng Zhu, Li-min Wang, Jing Zhang, Wen-qi Cai, Xue-ni Zhang, Qian-qian Guo, Zhenmin Lian, Rui Jia, F. Tai   +14 more
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