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Sex‐Specific Involvement of Gut Microbiota in Behavioral and Endocrine Responses to Chronic Predator Odor in Brandt's Voles

open access: yesIntegrative Zoology, EarlyView.
18 days of predator odor exposure altered gut microbiota, increased anxiety‐like behaviors, and elevated hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal axis activity in Brandt's voles, with males showing behavioral habituation and females remaining sensitive. Cecal microbiota transplantation experiments confirmed that only female recipients of microbiota from predator‐
Chen Gu   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Mykola Hrygorovych Myliutin [PDF]

open access: yesNovitates Theriologicae, 2022
Mykola Mylutin was a zoologist and epizootologist, specialist in epizootology of plague, tularemia and other especially dangerous infections, researcher of natural foci of especially dangerous infections in Ukraine.
Tetyana Atemasova   +1 more
doaj  

Prevention of vole damage in organic pomiculture [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
Vole damage is one of the most difficult phytosanitary problems to solve in organic pomiculture. A survey conducted in 2002 among German fruit growers showed that 90 % of the farms suffered from this damage. The water vole (A.
Pelz, H.-J., Walther, B.
core  

Prenatal Environmental Hypoxia Enhances Adult Hypoxia Tolerance in Brandt's Voles (Lasiopodomys brandtii): Behavioral and Transcriptomic Insights

open access: yesIntegrative Zoology, EarlyView.
Prenatal hypoxia enhances adult hypoxia tolerance in Brandt's voles, preserving cognitive and memory functions. Transcriptomic analysis reveals adaptive changes in energy metabolism, oxygen transport, and neuroprotective mechanisms, highlighting developmental plasticity.
Mengyang Li   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Extinction Debt Paid Off: The Demise of the European Polecat (Mustela putorius) in NE Iberia

open access: yesIntegrative Zoology, EarlyView.
We studied a vanishing polecat population for a decade, until its ultimate demise, using camera trap and roadkill data, landscape descriptors and dietary and toxicological analyses.Polecat favoured farmland and avoided forests and water bodies occupied by the invasive American mink.
Salvador Salvador   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Mycobacterium microti at the Environment and Wildlife Interface

open access: yesMicroorganisms, 2021
An unexpected high presence of Mycobacterium microti in wild boar in Northern Italy (Garda Lake) has been reported since 2003, but the factors contributing to the maintenance of this pathogen are still unclear. In this study, we investigated the presence
Valentina Tagliapietra   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

The accelerating influence of humans on mammalian macroecological patterns over the late Quaternary [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
The transition of hominins to a largely meat-based diet ~1.8 million years ago led to the exploitation of other mammals for food and resources. As hominins, particularly archaic and modern humans, became increasingly abundant and dispersed across the ...
Elliott Smith, Rosemary E.   +4 more
core   +1 more source

Impact of Sorting and Catch Media on Porcine Sperm Motility, Capacitation, and Viability

open access: yesAndrology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Fluorescence‐activated cell sorting (FACS) has emerged as a powerful tool for selecting spermatozoa of a desired population of fluorescent biomarkers, offering potential applications in reproductive biology and agriculture. However, concerns remain regarding sorting‐induced physiological alterations that could compromise spermatozoa
Tyler Weide, Juan Steibel, Karl Kerns
wiley   +1 more source

Trematode fauna of the water vole (Arvicola terrestris L.) in plain zone of the Lenkoran region of Azerbaijan

open access: yesРоссийский паразитологический журнал, 2019
Objective of research: The study of trematode fauna of the water vole (Arvicola terrestris L.) in the plain zone of the Lenkoran region of Azerbaijan. Material and methods: Helminthological material was collected from different landscapes (dry and semi ...
E. K. Aslanova, G. G. Fataliev
doaj  

Results of a 30-years-long investigation of small mammals in Crimea. Part 2. Ecology of species [PDF]

open access: yesПраці Теріологічної школи, 2016
The present paper deals with the final results of a 30-year-long research covering ecology and biology of the small mammal fauna in the Crimean Peninsula. The paper includes the historical overview of investigations within the region, population analysis
I. L. Evstafiev
doaj   +1 more source

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