...Hana N. Merchant; Daniel W. Hart; Nigel C. Bennett; Andries K. Janse van Vuuren; Marc T. Freeman; Andrew E. McKechnie; Chris G. Faulkes; Nathan D. Mordaunt; Steven J. Portugal Subterranean mammals representing a single subspecies occurring along an aridity gradient provide an appropriate model...

...Jorge Ayala-Berdon; Kevin I. Medina-Bello ABSTRACT Torpor is an adaptive strategy allowing heterothermic animals to cope with energy limitations. In birds and mammals, intrinsic and extrinsic factors, such as body mass and ambient temperature, are the main variables influencing torpor use...

...Matthew E. Pamenter ABSTRACT Hypoxia is one of the strongest environmental drivers of cellular and physiological adaptation. Although most mammals are largely intolerant of hypoxia, some specialized species have evolved mitigative strategies to tolerate hypoxic niches. Among the most hypoxia...

..., dropping their body temperature by 23–37°C, while others can only enter shallow torpor (e.g. pigeons, 3–10°C reduction). However, deep torpor in mammals can increase predation risk (unless animals are in burrows or caves), inhibit immune function and result in sleep deprivation, so even for species...

... neotropical singing mice ( Scotinomys ; Pasch et al., 2011 , 2013 ). How such frequency-modulated songs are produced is unknown but promises to provide important insight into the evolution of signal elaboration in the largest radiation of mammals. Current understanding of rodent vocal production...

... of Biologists Ltd 2019 http://www.biologists.com/user-licence-1-1/ Summary: Intra-specific analysis of the heterothermic response in a wild mammal supports a novel specialist–generalist theoretical model for endothermic thermoregulation. Torpor Repeatability Homeothermy Endothermy Mammals...

... and placental mammals. The allometric equations for both marsupials and placentals have an explicit, non-zero intercept, but the allometric exponent is higher in the equation for placentals than in that for marsupials. The approach followed here is extraordinarily versatile, and it has wider application...

... and Ressler, 2014 ; Crews et al., 2007 ; Jensen 2013 ). It should be noted that epigenetic reprogramming would occur in mammals during early development of germ cells and pre-implantation embryos, which is crucial for imprinting and establishing nuclear totipotency ( Geiman and Robertson, 2002 ; Reik...

...Marie-Pierre Schippers; Christophe M. R. LeMoine; Grant B. McClelland Fuel selection patterns during exercise are thought to be conserved among sea-level native mammals when intensity is expressed relative to maximum aerobic capacity ( ). However, this claim is based on data from only a few species...

... Olfaction Modeling Olfactory recess Mammals In mammals thought to have a keen sense of smell (macrosmatic mammals), much of the olfactory epithelium lines a cul-de-sac at the back of the nose called the olfactory or ethmoturbinal recess ( Maier, 1993 ; Moore, 1981 ; Smith and Rossie, 2008...

...Barry G. Lovegrove; Metobor O. Mowoe In this study we report on the evolution of micro-cursoriality, a unique case of cursoriality in mammals smaller than 1 kg. We obtained new running speed and limb morphology data for two species of elephant-shrews ( Elephantulus spp., Macroscelidae) from...

... 2013. Published by The Company of Biologists Ltd 2013 allometry comparative method exercise locomotion mammals maximum oxygen consumption phylogeny V O 2max The scaling of mammalian energy metabolism to body size has been a subject of scientific study for more than a century...

...Benjamin D. Charlton Summary Experimental studies of mate choice have normally focused on non-mammal animal species, in which female mating preferences are based on clearly defined male traits. Because mammals are invariably larger and behaviourally more complex, they are less suited to this type...

...Paul L. Else Summary Lactation is a process associated with mammals, yet a number of birds feed their newly hatched young on secretions analogous to the milk of mammals. These secretions are produced from various sections (crop organ, oesophageal lining and proventriculus) of the upper digestive...

... mammals plasticity Chondral modeling is defined as the adaptive ontogenetic response of cartilage to regional variation in hydrostatic pressure, resulting in increased chondrocyte mitosis and synthesis of the extracellular matrix (ECM), influencing overall joint topography, congruence and size...

... ; see also Haussmann and Marchetto, 2010 ). Previous studies where birds or mammals were subjected to a restraint protocol lasting from 30 min to 18 h have found both significant and insignficant changes in average levels of oxidative damage or antioxidants [e.g. mammals ( Gümüslü et al., 2002...

...C. F. Ross; A. L. Baden; J. Georgi; A. Herrel; K. A. Metzger; D. A. Reed; V. Schaerlaeken; M. S. Wolff SUMMARY Mammals chew more rhythmically than lepidosaurs. The research presented here evaluated possible reasons for this difference in relation to differences between lepidosaurs and mammals...

...Nadja Schilling; David R. Carrier SUMMARY In mammals, the epaxial muscles are believed to stabilize the trunk during walking and trotting because the timing of their activity is not appropriate to produce bending of the trunk. To test whether this is indeed the case, we recorded the activity...

... at longer SL in the non-mammalian classes. These findings correlate with in vivo cardiac function as non-mammalian vertebrates, such as fish,vary stroke volume to a relatively larger extent than mammals. Thus, it seems the length-dependent properties of individual myocytes are modified to accommodate...

... and cats. The space and time parameters make it possible to link the timing and the spacing of the footfalls, and to quantify the spatiotemporal dimension of gaits in different mammals. The slight differences observed between dogs and cats could reflect their morphological differences. The APS method could...