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View article: Heart rate monitoring reveals differential seasonal energetic trade-offs in male noctule bats
Heart rate monitoring reveals differential seasonal energetic trade-offs in male noctule bats Open
Understanding how animals meet their daily energy requirements is critical in our rapidly changing world. Small organisms with high metabolic rates can conserve stored energy when food availability is low or increase energy intake when ene…
View article: High temporal resolution data reveal low bat and insect activity over managed meadows in central Europe
High temporal resolution data reveal low bat and insect activity over managed meadows in central Europe Open
View article: Domestication effect of reduced brain size is reverted when mink become feral
Domestication effect of reduced brain size is reverted when mink become feral Open
A typical consequence of breeding animal species for domestication is a reduction in relative brain size. When domesticated animals escape from captivity and establish feral populations, the larger brain of the wild phenotype is usually no…
View article: Contrasting Torpor Use by Reproductive Male Common Noctule Bats in the Laboratory and in the Field
Contrasting Torpor Use by Reproductive Male Common Noctule Bats in the Laboratory and in the Field Open
Synopsis Metabolic processes of animals are often studied in controlled laboratory settings. However, these laboratory settings often do not reflect the animals’ natural environment. Thus, results of metabolic measurements from laboratory …
View article: Flexible energy-saving strategies in female temperate-zone bats
Flexible energy-saving strategies in female temperate-zone bats Open
View article: Metabolic rate in common shrews is unaffected by temperature, leading to lower energetic costs through seasonal size reduction
Metabolic rate in common shrews is unaffected by temperature, leading to lower energetic costs through seasonal size reduction Open
Small endothermic mammals have high metabolisms, particularly at cold temperatures. In the light of this, some species have evolved a seemingly illogical strategy: they reduce the size of the brain and several organs to become even smaller…
View article: The Integrated Genomic Architecture and Evolution of Dental Divergence in East African Cichlid Fishes (<i>Haplochromis chilotes</i> x <i>H. nyererei</i>)
The Integrated Genomic Architecture and Evolution of Dental Divergence in East African Cichlid Fishes (<i>Haplochromis chilotes</i> x <i>H. nyererei</i>) Open
The independent evolution of the two toothed jaws of cichlid fishes is thought to have promoted their unparalleled ecological divergence and species richness. However, dental divergence in cichlids could exhibit substantial genetic covaria…
View article: Supplementary material from "Growth overshoot and seasonal size changes in the skulls of two weasel species"
Supplementary material from "Growth overshoot and seasonal size changes in the skulls of two weasel species" Open
Ontogenetic changes in mammalian skulls are complex. For a very few species (i.e. some Sorex shrews), these also include seasonally driven, bidirectional size changes within individuals, presumably to reduce energy requirements duri…
View article: Figure S3. from Growth overshoot and seasonal size changes in the skulls of two weasel species
Figure S3. from Growth overshoot and seasonal size changes in the skulls of two weasel species Open
Frequency plots showing the distributions of each skull metric (condylobasal length, left; braincase breadth, center; and braincase depth, right) per species (M. erminea, top; M. nivalis, bottom) for each age and sex combination. Vertical …
View article: Code S1. from Growth overshoot and seasonal size changes in the skulls of two weasel species
Code S1. from Growth overshoot and seasonal size changes in the skulls of two weasel species Open
Program R code for executing bootstrapping of t-tests to compare skull metrics between age, sex, species, and origin groupings.
View article: Stable carbon isotopes in breath reveal fast incorporation rates and seasonally variable but rapid fat turnover in the common shrew (<i>Sorex araneus</i>)
Stable carbon isotopes in breath reveal fast incorporation rates and seasonally variable but rapid fat turnover in the common shrew (<i>Sorex araneus</i>) Open
Small non-migratory mammals with Northern distribution ranges apply a variety of behavioural and physiological wintering strategies. A rare energy saving strategy is Dehnel's phenomenon, involving a reduction and later regrowth of the body…
View article: Growth overshoot and seasonal size changes in the skulls of two weasel species
Growth overshoot and seasonal size changes in the skulls of two weasel species Open
Ontogenetic changes in mammalian skulls are complex. For a very few species (i.e. some Sorex shrews), these also include seasonally driven, bidirectional size changes within individuals, presumably to reduce energy requirements during low …