Search Results - "Heldstab, Sandra"
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Latitude, life history and sexual size dimorphism correlate with reproductive seasonality in rodents
Published in Mammal review (01-04-2021)“…Rodents show an immense variation in reproductive seasonality, spanning the whole spectrum from strictly seasonal to continuous reproduction throughout the…”
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The economics of brain size evolution in vertebrates
Published in Current biology (20-06-2022)“…Across the animal kingdom, we see remarkable variation in brain size. This variation has even increased over evolutionary time. Traditionally, studies aiming…”
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Why big brains? A comparison of models for both primate and carnivore brain size evolution
Published in PloS one (21-12-2021)“…Despite decades of research, much uncertainty remains regarding the selection pressures responsible for brain size variation. Whilst the influential social…”
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Reproductive seasonality in primates: patterns, concepts and unsolved questions
Published in Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society (01-02-2021)“…ABSTRACT Primates, like other mammals, exhibit an annual reproductive pattern that ranges from strictly seasonal breeding to giving birth in all months of the…”
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Hibernation constrains brain size evolution in mammals
Published in Journal of evolutionary biology (01-10-2018)“…The expensive brain hypothesis predicts that the lowest stable level of steady energy input acts as a strong constraint on a species’ brain size, and thus,…”
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Extended parental provisioning and variation in vertebrate brain sizes
Published in PLoS biology (28-02-2023)“…Large brains provide adaptive cognitive benefits but require unusually high, near-constant energy inputs and become fully functional well after their growth is…”
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Being fat and smart: A comparative analysis of the fat-brain trade-off in mammals
Published in Journal of human evolution (01-11-2016)“…Humans stand out among non-aquatic mammals by having both an extremely large brain and a relatively large amount of body fat. To understand the evolution of…”
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Manipulation complexity in primates coevolved with brain size and terrestriality
Published in Scientific reports (14-04-2016)“…Humans occupy by far the most complex foraging niche of all mammals, built around sophisticated technology, and at the same time exhibit unusually large…”
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Allomaternal care, brains and fertility in mammals: who cares matters
Published in Behavioral ecology and sociobiology (01-06-2019)“…The expensive brain hypothesis predicts that the lowest stable level of energy input sets the upper limit to a species’ brain size. This prediction receives…”
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Getting fat or getting help? How female mammals cope with energetic constraints on reproduction
Published in Frontiers in zoology (12-06-2017)“…Fat deposits enable a female mammal to bear the energy costs of offspring production and thus greatly influence her reproductive success. However, increasing…”
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Gross intestinal morphometry and allometry in primates
Published in American journal of primatology (01-08-2019)“…Although it is generally assumed that among mammals and within mammal groups, those species that rely on diets consisting of greater amounts of plant fiber…”
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When ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny: Fixed neurodevelopmental sequence of manipulative skills among primates
Published in Science advances (01-07-2020)“…Neural development is highly conserved across distantly related species of different brain sizes. Here, we show that the development of manipulative complexity…”
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Geographical Origin, Delayed Implantation, and Induced Ovulation Explain Reproductive Seasonality in the Carnivora
Published in Journal of biological rhythms (01-08-2018)“…Patterns of reproductive seasonality in the Carnivora are difficult to study comparatively, due to limited numbers of species for which information is…”
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Correction to: getting fat or getting help? how female mammals cope with energetic constraints on reproduction
Published in Frontiers in zoology (08-02-2018)“…[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1186/s12983-017-0214-0.]…”
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Sensitivity, specificity, and diagnostic accuracy of WHO 2013 criteria for diagnosis of gestational diabetes mellitus in low risk early pregnancies: international, prospective, multicentre cohort study
Published in BMJ medicine (13-09-2023)“…ObjectiveTo evaluate the predictability of gestational diabetes mellitus wth a 75 g oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT) in early pregnancy, based on the 2013…”
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Extended parental provisioning and variation in vertebrate brain sizes
Published in PLoS biology (01-02-2023)“…Large brains provide adaptive cognitive benefits but require unusually high, near-constant energy inputs and become fully functional well after their growth is…”
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