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Body mass and water economy in the South American olivaceous field mouse along a latitudinal gradient: Implications for climate change
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A better tolerance of water shortage in the rodent population from the xeric habitat is found, thus suggesting the occurrence of local adaptation to the prevailing habitat conditions.About:
This article is published in Journal of Arid Environments.The article was published on 2011-05-01. It has received 15 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Abrothrix olivaceus & Shrubland.read more
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Environmental metabolomics reveal geographic variation in aerobic metabolism and metabolic substrates in Mongolian gerbils (Meriones unguiculatus).
TL;DR: Findings suggest that desert dwelling gerbils decrease RMR and TEWL via down-regulation of aerobic respiration, and geographic variation in metabolic substrates may enhance metabolic water production per oxygen molecule for desert population while constraining aerobic respiring to reduce R MR and TewL.
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Characterization of the kidney transcriptome of the South American olive mouse Abrothrix olivacea
Facundo Giorello,Matías Feijoo,Guillermo D’Elía,Lourdes Valdez,Juan C. Opazo,Valeria Varas,Daniel E. Naya,Enrique P. Lessa +7 more
TL;DR: This work is the first to characterize the transcriptome of any member of Sigmodontinae, a subfamily of cricetid rodents with about 400 living species, and indicates that normalization should be avoided if complete or nearly complete coding sequences of genes are desired.
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Water deprivation up-regulates urine osmolality and renal aquaporin 2 in Mongolian gerbils (Meriones unguiculatus).
Meng-Meng Xu,De-Hua Wang +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined urine osmolality, renal distribution and expression of aquaporins (AQPs) in Mongolian gerbils during 7 days of water deprivation (WD).
Designing, Developing and Testing of a Seeder for Tree Seeding and in situ Water Harvesting
Imad-eldin A. Ali Babiker,Lotfie A. Yousif,Hassan A. Elgezouli,Bakri S. Mohammed,Mohamed Y. Daffalla,Ebtehag H. Babiker +5 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a seeder that constructs ditch and regulates spacing between tree seeds in the bottom of the ditch simultaneously is presented. But the developed seeder was tested during seasons 2011 and 2012 in rainfed and irrigated areas.
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Does acclimation to contrasting atmospheric humidities affect evaporative water loss in the South American subterranean rodent Ctenomys talarum
TL;DR: In this article, the influence of acclimation to different ambient humidities on total evaporative water loss (TEWL) and associated metabolic parameters in the subterranean rodent Ctenomys talarum was evaluated.
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