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How to spend the summer? Free-living dormice (Glis glis) can hibernate for 11 months in non-reproductive years

Edible dormice are arboreal rodents adapted to yearly fluctuations in seed production of European beech, a major food source for this species. In years of low beech seed abundance, dormice skip reproduction and non-reproductive dormice fed ad libitum in captivity can display summer dormancy in addit...

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Autores principales: Hoelzl, Franz, Bieber, Claudia, Cornils, Jessica S., Gerritsmann, Hanno, Stalder, Gabrielle L., Walzer, Chris, Ruf, Thomas
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4628641/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26293446
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00360-015-0929-1