Winter conditions, not resource availability alone, may drive reversible seasonal skull size changes in moles

Seasonal changes in the environment can lead to astonishing adaptations. A few small mammals with exceptionally high metabolisms have evolved a particularly extreme strategy: they shrink before winter and regrow in spring, including changes of greater than 20% in skull and brain size. Whether this p...

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Autores principales: Nováková, Lucie, Lázaro, Javier, Muturi, Marion, Dullin, Christian, Dechmann, Dina K. N.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Royal Society 2022
Materias:
Organismal and Evolutionary Biology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9449468/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36133148
http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.220652

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9449468/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36133148
http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.220652

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