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Ocular pigmentation in humans, great apes, and gibbons is not suggestive of communicative functions by Caspar, Kai R., Biggemann, Marco, Geissmann, Thomas, Begall, Sabine

“…Pigmentation patterns of the visible part of the eyeball, encompassing the iris and portions of the sclera, have been discussed to be linked to social…”
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The evolution and biological correlates of hand preferences in anthropoid primates by Caspar, Kai R, Pallasdies, Fabian, Mader, Larissa, Sartorelli, Heitor, Begall, Sabine

“…The evolution of human right-handedness has been intensively debated for decades. Manual lateralization patterns in non-human primates have the potential to…”
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Audiograms of three subterranean rodent species (genus Fukomys ) determined by auditory brainstem responses reveal extremely poor high-frequency cut-offs by Gerhardt, Patricia, Henning, Yoshiyuki, Begall, Sabine, Malkemper, E Pascal

“…Life underground has shaped the auditory sense of subterranean mammals, shifting their hearing range to low frequencies. Mole-rats of the genus have, however,…”
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Increased longevity due to sexual activity in mole-rats is associated with transcriptional changes in the HPA stress axis by Sahm, Arne, Platzer, Matthias, Koch, Philipp, Henning, Yoshiyuki, Bens, Martin, Groth, Marco, Burda, Hynek, Begall, Sabine, Ting, Saskia, Goetz, Moritz, Van Daele, Paul, Staniszewska, Magdalena, Klose, Jasmin Mona, Costa, Pedro Fragoso, Hoffmann, Steve, Szafranski, Karol, Dammann, Philip

“…Sexual activity and/or reproduction are associated with a doubling of life expectancy in the long-lived rodent genus . To investigate the molecular mechanisms…”
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Surprisingly long survival of premature conclusions about naked mole‐rat biology by Braude, Stan, Holtze, Susanne, Begall, Sabine, Brenmoehl, Julia, Burda, Hynek, Dammann, Philip, Marmol, Delphine, Gorshkova, Ekaterina, Henning, Yoshiyuki, Hoeflich, Andreas, Höhn, Annika, Jung, Tobias, Hamo, Dania, Sahm, Arne, Shebzukhov, Yury, Šumbera, Radim, Miwa, Satomi, Vyssokikh, Mikhail Y., Zglinicki, Thomas, Averina, Olga, Hildebrandt, Thomas B.

“…ABSTRACT Naked mole‐rats express many unusual traits for such a small rodent. Their morphology, social behaviour, physiology, and ageing have been well studied…”
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Comment on 'Naked mole-rat mortality rates defy Gompertzian laws by not increasing with age' by Dammann, Philip, Scherag, André, Zak, Nikolay, Szafranski, Karol, Holtze, Susanne, Begall, Sabine, Burda, Hynek, Kestler, Hans A, Hildebrandt, Thomas, Platzer, Matthias

“…Ruby et al. recently analyzed historical lifespan data on more than 3200 naked mole-rats, collected over a total observation period of about 38 years (Ruby et…”
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Effects of Sex and Breeding Status on Skull Morphology in Cooperatively Breeding Ansell’s Mole-Rats and an Appraisal of Sexual Dimorphism in the Bathyergidae by Caspar, Kai R., Müller, Jacqueline, Begall, Sabine

“…African mole-rats of the genus Fukomys (Northern common mole-rats) combine a monogamous mating system and pronounced sexual size dimorphism; a pattern highly…”
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Correction: Scleral appearance is not a correlate of domestication in mammals by Caspar, Kai R, Hüttner, Lisa, Begall, Sabine

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Comparative analysis of thyroid hormone systems in rodents with subterranean lifestyle by Gerhardt, Patricia, Begall, Sabine, Frädrich, Caroline, Renko, Kostja, Hildebrandt, Thomas B., Holtze, Susanne, Heinrich, Alexandra, Sahm, Arne, Meci, Xheni, Köhrle, Josef, Rijntjes, Eddy, Henning, Yoshiyuki

“…African mole-rats are subterranean rodents inhabiting underground burrows. This habitat entails risks of overheating, hypoxia, and scarce food availability…”
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Perioral secretions enable complex social signaling in African mole-rats (genus Fukomys) by Caspar, Kai R., Stopka, Pavel, Issel, Daniel, Katschak, Kristin H., Zöllner, Till, Zupanc, Sina, Žáček, Petr, Begall, Sabine

“…Subterranean common mole-rats of the genus Fukomys (family Bathyergidae) live in large, cooperatively-breeding families. Odor cues have been hypothesized to…”
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Self-Domestication Underground? Testing for Social and Morphological Correlates of Animal Personality in Cooperatively-Breeding Ansell’s Mole-Rats (Fukomys anselli) by Begall, Sabine, Bottermann, Lea, Caspar, Kai Robert

“…Ansell’s mole-rats ( Fukomys anselli ) are sexually dimorphic subterranean rodents that live in families consisting of a single breeding pair and their…”
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Low thyroxine serves as an upstream regulator of ecophysiological adaptations in Ansell's mole-rats by Gerhardt, Patricia, Begall, Sabine, Frädrich, Caroline, Renko, Kostja, Heinrich, Alexandra, Köhrle, Josef, Henning, Yoshiyuki

“…About 10% of all rodent species have evolved a subterranean way of life, although life in subterranean burrows is associated with harsh environmental…”
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Magnetic alignment in grazing and resting cattle and deer by Begall, Sabine, Červený, Jaroslav, Neef, Julia, Vojtěch, Oldřich, Burda, Hynek

“…We demonstrate by means of simple, noninvasive methods (analysis of satellite images, field observations, and measuring "deer beds" in snow) that domestic…”
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Scleral appearance is not a correlate of domestication in mammals by Caspar, Kai R, Hüttner, Lisa, Begall, Sabine

“…Numerous hypotheses try to explain the unusual appearance of the human eye with its bright sclera and transparent conjunctiva and how it could have evolved…”
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Correction: Audiograms of three subterranean rodent species (genus Fukomys ) determined by auditory brainstem responses reveal extremely poor high-frequency cut-offs by Gerhardt, Patricia, Henning, Yoshiyuki, Begall, Sabine, Malkemper, E Pascal

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Editorial: Recent advances in the ecology and evolution of the Bathyergidae by Braude, Stan, Holtze, Susanne, Bennett, Nigel C., Begall, Sabine

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Extremely low-frequency electromagnetic fields disrupt magnetic alignment of ruminants by Burda, Hynek, Begall, Sabine, Červený, Jaroslav, Neef, Julia, Němec, Pavel

“…Resting and grazing cattle and deer tend to align their body axes in the geomagnetic North-South direction. The mechanism(s) that underlie this behavior remain…”
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Directional preference in dogs: Laterality and "pull of the north" by Adámková, Jana, Svoboda, Jan, Benediktová, Kateřina, Martini, Sabine, Nováková, Petra, Tůma, David, Kučerová, Michaela, Divišová, Michaela, Begall, Sabine, Hart, Vlastimil, Burda, Hynek

“…Laterality is a well described phenomenon in domestic dogs. It was shown that dogs, under calm Earth's magnetic field conditions, when marking their home…”
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Unusual ratio between free thyroxine and free triiodothyronine in a long-lived mole-rat species with bimodal ageing by Henning, Yoshiyuki, Vole, Christiane, Begall, Sabine, Bens, Martin, Broecker-Preuss, Martina, Sahm, Arne, Szafranski, Karol, Burda, Hynek, Dammann, Philip

“…Ansell's mole-rats (Fukomys anselli) are subterranean, long-lived rodents, which live in eusocial families, where the maximum lifespan of breeders is twice as…”
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Wolf Howling and Emergency Sirens: A Hypothesis of Natural and Technical Convergence of Aposematic Signals by Kořanová, Diana, Němcová, Lucie, Policht, Richard, Hart, Vlastimil, Begall, Sabine, Burda, Hynek

“…Acoustic signals serving intraspecific communication by predators are perceived by potential prey as warning signals. We analysed the acoustic characteristics…”
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