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  • Where do core thalamocortical axons terminate in mammalian neocortex when there is no cytoarchitecturally distinct layer 4? 
    Bhagwandin, Adhil; Molnar, Zoltan; Bertelsen, Mads F.; Karlsson, Karl Æ.; Alagaili, Abdulaziz N.; Bennett, Nigel C.; Hof, Patrick R.; Kaswera-Kyamakya, Consolate; Gilissen, Emmanuel; Jayakumar, Jaikishan; Manger, Paul R. (Wiley, 2024-07)
    Although the mammalian cerebral cortex is most often described as a hexalaminar structure, there are cortical areas (primary motor cortex) and species (elephants, cetaceans, and hippopotami), where a cytoarchitecturally ...
  • Timely questions emerging in chronobiology : the circadian clock keeps on ticking 
    Chawla, Sangeeta; O'Neill, John; Knight, Marina I.; He, Yuqing; Wang, Lei; Maronde, Erik; Rodriguez, Sergio Gil; Van Ooijen, Gerben; Garbarino-Pico, Eduardo; Wolf, Eva; Dkhissi-Benyahya, Ouria; Nikhat, Anjoom; Ckakrabarti, Shaon; Youngstedt, Shawn D.; Mak, Natalie Zi-ching; Provencio, Ignacio; Oster, Henrik; Goel, Namni; Caba, Mario; Oosthuizen, Maria Kathleen; Duffield, Giles E.; Chabot, Christopher; Davis, Seth J. (Ubiquity Press, 2024-04-02)
    Chronobiology investigations have revealed much about cellular and physiological clockworks but we are far from having a complete mechanistic understanding of the physiological and ecological implications. Here we present ...
  • Sightings of dwarf minke whales in the Southern Hemisphere during the SOWER cruises 
    Kato, Hidehiro; Matsuoka, Koji; Nakamura, Gen; Best, Peter B. (International Whaling Commission, 2024-04)
    This paper examines sightings of dwarf minke whales during the SOWER cruises. A total of 12 sightings were made between 1994/95 and 2003/04, across a relatively wide latitude (37°S–62°S) but limited longitude, between IWC ...
  • The SOWER programme in the Antarctic : background, aims and objectives 
    Best, Peter B.; Ohsumi, S.; Kato, H.; Donovan, G.P. (International Whaling Commission, 2024-02)
    The International Whaling Commission (IWC) imposed limits on the catch of Antarctic minke whales close to the start of commercial whaling in the 1970s. These management efforts were hampered by the challenge of obtaining ...
  • Overview of the SOWER cruise circumpolar acoustic survey data and analyses of Antarctic blue whale calls 
    Shabangu, Fannie Welcome; Stafford, Kathleen M.; Findlay, Kenneth Pierce; Rankin, Shannon; Ljungblad, Don; Tsuda, Yasunari; Morse, Laura; Clark, Christopher W.; Kato, Hidehiro; Ensor, Paul (International Whaling Commission, 2024-02)
    The International Whaling Commission (IWC) carried out blue whale research within its annual Southern Ocean Whale and Ecosystem Research (SOWER) cruises between 1996 and 2010. Over 700 sonobuoys were deployed to record ...
  • Water provisioning shapes carnivore community structure 
    Somers, Michael J.; Walters, Michele (Elsevier, 2024-12)
    Water provisioning is common in arid and semi-arid African ecosystems, but its effects on carnivore communities are not understood. Recently, Morin et al. documented the unexpectedly contrasting space-use patterns of ...
  • A field-friendly alternative to freeze-drying faeces for glucocorticoid metabolite quantification in animals of different feeding classes 
    Osburn, Kayla Rae; Crossey, Bruce Gareth; Majelantle, Tshepiso L; Ganswindt, Andre (Elsevier, 2024-12)
    Monitoring stress-related faecal glucocorticoid metabolite (fGCM) concentrations is a reliable, popular and established approach for understanding wildlife responses to perceived stressors. To maintain fGCM integrity ...
  • First record of gastrointestinal parasites of African otters 
    Somers, Michael J.; Loggenberg, Jancke L.; McIntyre, Trevor (IUCN Otter Specialist Group, 2024-06)
    Parasites are found in many mammalian species, particularly in the gastrointestinal tract. They can spread from one species to another and cause severe diseases in some species. Parasite spread is especially important ...
  • Seasonal effects on the fecal microbial composition of wild greater thick-tailed galagos (Otolemur crassicaudatus) 
    Long, Channen; Scheun, Juan; Sauther, Michelle Linda; Cuozzo, F.P.; Millette, James; Tordiffe, Adrian Stephen Wolferstan (Springer, 2024-12)
    Bacterial communities present in the host digestive tract are important for the breakdown and absorption of nutrients required by the host. Changes in diet and the environment are major factors affecting the composition ...
  • Introduction to the special issue on What they do in the shadows : new perspectives on Africa’s nocturnal bushbabies 
    Cuozzo, F.P.; Sauther, Michelle; Pozzi, Luca; Dalton, John K. (Springer, 2024-12-11)
    Among continental Africa’s endemic primates, the bushbabies or galagos (family Galagidae, or Galonigidae, Groves, 2001) have been described as the most successful radiation of strepsirrhine primates in terms of species ...
  • The value of social media wildlife sightings for elusive species monitoring : a population assessment of servals in a South African urban nature reserve 
    Smith, Kyle; Somers, Michael J. (Springer, 2025-02)
    Data sourced from social media platforms is an underutilised resource for wildlife research, especially in studying enigmatic species. This study evaluates the potential of such data to provide population and behavioural ...
  • The power of caring touch : from survival to prosocial cooperation 
    Griesser, Michael; Bennett, Nigel Charles; Burkart, Judith M.; Hart, Daniel William; Uomini, Natalie; Warrington, Miyako H. (Elsevier, 2025)
    Cooperation is a pivotal biological phenomenon that occurs in diverse forms. In species that engage in helping, individuals vary in the time they spend together and the degree of their physical proximity, which affects the ...
  • How can overlooking social interactions, space familiarity or other invisible landscapes shaping animal movement bias habitat selection estimations and species distribution predictions? 
    Dejeante, Romain; Lemaire-Patin, Remi; Chamaillé-Jammes, Simon (Wiley, 2025-01)
    Species' future distributions are commonly predicted using models that link the likelihood of occurrence of individuals to the environment. Although animals' movements are influenced by physical and non-physical landscapes, ...
  • Environmental conditions modulate warming effects on plant litter decomposition globally 
    Schwieger, Sarah; Dorrepaal, Ellen; Bon, Matteo Petit; Vandvik, Vigdis; Le Roux, Elizabeth; Strack, Maria; Yan, Yang; Venn, Susanna; Van den Hoogen, Johan; Valino, Fernando; Thomas, Haydn J.D.; Te Beest, Mariska; Suzuki, Satoshi; Petraglia, Alessandro; Myers-Smith, Isla H.; Munir, Tariq Muhammad; Michelsen, Anders; Lokken, Jorn Olav; Qi, Li; Koike, Takayoshi; Klanderud, Kari; Karr, Ellen Haakonsen; Jonsdottir, Ingibjoerg Svala; Hollister, Robert D.; Hofgaard, Annika; Hassan, Ibrahim A.; Wang, Genxu; Filippova, Nina; Crowther, Thomas W.; Clark, Karin; Christiansen, Casper T.; Casanova-Katny, Angelica; Carbognani, Michele; Bokhorst, Stef; Bjornsdottir, Katrin; Asplund, Johan; Althuizen, Inge; Alonso, Rocio; Alatalo, Juha M.; Agathokleous, Evgenios; Aerts, Rien; Sarneel, Judith M. (Wiley, 2025-01)
    Empirical studies worldwide show that warming has variable effects on plant litter decomposition, leaving the overall impact of climate change on decomposition uncertain. We conducted a meta-analysis of 109 experimental ...
  • The challenge of attaining conservation outcomes in a complex system : agency personnel’s and academic researchers’ perspectives on the wicked problem of the exotic pet trade 
    Pratt, Elizabeth N.; Lockwood, Julie L.; King, Elizabeth G.; Pienaar, Elizabeth Frances (Pensoft Publishers, 2025-02)
    The exotic pet trade is a wicked problem involving economic, social, political, ethical, and environmental dimensions, which cannot be resolved using conventional management strategies that are informed by restricted ...
  • Uncovering the diversity of bats in the Mbam Minkom Massif, Cameroon : insights into the importance of tropical inselbergs 
    Grunwald, Amanda L.; Demos, Terrence C.; Atagana, Patrick J.; Volk, Courtney M.; Monadjem, Ara; Meyo Okono, Franck P.; Ngueagni, Yvette; Travis Merrill, R.; Bevers, Ian; Armstrong, Katie D.; Kilber, Elena E.; Talla, Arnaud; Fils, Eric Moise Bakwo; Patterson, Bruce D.; Ballhorn, Daniel J.; Ruedas, Luis A. (Muzeum i Instytut Zoologii, 2025-02)
    We report the results of two expeditions (2019 and 2022) to the Mbam Minkom Massif (Centre Region, Cameroon), focused on an assessment of the montane area's bat fauna. We describe bat species' richness and highlight the ...
  • Odour information enables patch choice by mammalian herbivores from afar, leading to predictable plant associational effects 
    Finnerty, Patrick B.; Shrader, A.M. (Adrian); Banks, Peter; Schmitt, Melissa H.; McArthur, Clare (British Ecological Society, 2024-11)
    Neighbouring plants can alter the susceptibility of high-quality focal plants to herbivores by affecting herbivore patch choice. Herbivores can use plant odour to make patch-scale foraging decisions from afar, but the ...
  • Olfactory misinformation provides refuge to palatable plants from mammalian browsing 
    Finnerty, Patrick B.; Possell, Malcolm; Banks, Peter; Orlando, Cristian Gabriel; Price, Catherine J.; Shrader, A.M. (Adrian); McArthur, Clare (Nature Research, 2024-04)
    Mammalian herbivores browse palatable plants of ecological and economical value. Undesirable neighbours can reduce browsing to these plants by providing ‘associational refuge’, but they can also compete for resources. ...
  • Naked mole-rats have distinctive cardiometabolic and genetic adaptations to their underground low-oxygen lifestyles 
    Faulkes, Christopher G.; Eykyn, Thomas R.; Miljkovic, Jan Lj.; Gilbert, James D.; Charles, Rebecca L.; Prag, Hiran A.; Patel, Nikayla; Hart, Daniel William; Murphy, Michael P.; Bennett, Nigel Charles; Aksentijevic, Dunja (Nature Research, 2024-03-27)
    The naked mole-rat Heterocephalus glaber is a eusocial mammal exhibiting extreme longevity (37-year lifespan), extraordinary resistance to hypoxia and absence of cardiovascular disease. To identify the mechanisms behind ...
  • A genomic basis of vocal rhythm in birds 
    Sebastianelli, Matteo; Lukhele, Sifiso M.; Secomandi, Simona; De Souza, Stacey G.; Haase, Bettina; Moysi, Michaella; Nikiforou, Christos; Hutfluss, Alexander; Mountcastle, Jacquelyn; Balacco, Jennifer; Pelan, Sarah; Chow, William; Fedrigo, Olivier; Downs, Colleen T.; Monadjem, Ara; Dingemanse, Niels J.; Jarvis, Erich D.; Brelsford, Alan; Von Holdt, Bridgett M.; Kirschel, Alexander N.G. (Nature Research, 2024-04-23)
    Vocal rhythm plays a fundamental role in sexual selection and species recognition in birds, but little is known of its genetic basis due to the confounding effect of vocal learning in model systems. Uncovering its genetic ...