... reveals higher metabolic costs in Heterocephalus glaber than in Fukomys damarensis , suggesting a trade-off between digging specialisation and locomotion efficiency. African mole-rats Bathyergidae Metabolic rate Movement physiology Respirometry Rodent treadmill Subterranean...

... use different molecular mechanisms to tolerate severe hypoxia. Hypoxia tolerance Protein oxidation DNA damage HIF-1α miRNA Bathyergidae Metabolism in the adult brain is almost completely aerobic and the brain receives a large percentage of bodily oxygen from the blood supply (∼12...

... and eye in subterranean mole-rats, Fukomys anselli (Bathyergidae) and Spalax ehrenbergi (Spalacidae): progressive specialisation or regressive degeneration?   Anim. Biol.   56 , 475 - 486 . 10.1163/157075606778967847 Cox , P. G. and Faulkes , C. G. (2014). Digital dissection...

... of the remarkable consistency between experiments, it is generally believed that this directional preference is innate. To test the hypothesis that spontaneous southeastern directional preference is a shared, ancestral feature of all African mole-rats (Bathyergidae, Rodentia), we employed the same arena assay...

... The Company of Biologists Limited 2006 2006 magnetic compass orientation sensory transduction mole-rat cornea magnetite Bathyergidae Magnetic compass orientation has been demonstrated in a number of vertebrate model groups including salmonids, newts, sea turtles, birds and rodents...