Stage of pregnancy dictates heterothermy in temperate forest-dwelling bats ...
(Uploaded by Plazi for the Bat Literature Project) Bats face high energetic requirements, as powered flight is costly and they have a disadvantageous surface-to-volume-ratio. To deal with those requirements energy saving mechanisms, such as heterothermy (torpor), have evolved. Torpor during pregnanc...
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ftdatacite:10.5281/zenodo.13437815 2024-09-30T14:38:36+00:00 Stage of pregnancy dictates heterothermy in temperate forest-dwelling bats ... Otto, Matthias S. Becker, Nina I. Encarnação, Jorge A. 2015 https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13437815 https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.13437815 unknown Zenodo hash://md5/cc706e7a6c41ca34e581ad4c771c84ef hash://sha256/e7dfa3966fe99b6d2eb69fa14cd078c2dff5452d98ac60a25a2b9b39874bf067 zotero://select/groups/5435545/items/YZXWJVYW https://zotero.org/groups/5435545/items/YZXWJVYW https://linker.bio/cut:hash://md5/ab93cbb2752af5666e9ec9d994d04e46!/b133119-135576 hash://md5/26f7ce5dd404e33c6570edd4ba250d20 hash://md5/cc706e7a6c41ca34e581ad4c771c84ef hash://sha256/e7dfa3966fe99b6d2eb69fa14cd078c2dff5452d98ac60a25a2b9b39874bf067 zotero://select/groups/5435545/items/YZXWJVYW https://zotero.org/groups/5435545/items/YZXWJVYW https://linker.bio/cut:hash://md5/ab93cbb2752af5666e9ec9d994d04e46!/b133119-135576 hash://md5/26f7ce5dd404e33c6570edd4ba250d20 https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1410543 https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13437816 Biodiversity Mammalia Chiroptera Chordata Animalia bats bat JournalArticle ScholarlyArticle article-journal 2015 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1343781510.5281/zenodo.141054310.5281/zenodo.13437816 2024-09-02T10:14:17Z (Uploaded by Plazi for the Bat Literature Project) Bats face high energetic requirements, as powered flight is costly and they have a disadvantageous surface-to-volume-ratio. To deal with those requirements energy saving mechanisms, such as heterothermy (torpor), have evolved. Torpor during pregnancy, however, reduces rates of foetal development and consequently prolongs pregnancy. Therefore, heterothermy has a great effect on reproduction, as an unhindered parturition can only be assured by high body temperatures. Regardless of these adverse affects of torpor the energetic requirements of bats during reproduction urge for energy savings and bats are known to enter torpor during pregnancy. The species in the current study differ in their torpor patterns and thus their heterothermic strategy. However, we hypothesized, that species-specific heterothermic behaviour should be revoked at the end of pregnancy. We analyzed skin temperatures of Myotis bechsteinii, Myotis nattereri and Plecotus auritus during ... Article in Journal/Newspaper Myotis nattereri DataCite |
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(Uploaded by Plazi for the Bat Literature Project) Bats face high energetic requirements, as powered flight is costly and they have a disadvantageous surface-to-volume-ratio. To deal with those requirements energy saving mechanisms, such as heterothermy (torpor), have evolved. Torpor during pregnancy, however, reduces rates of foetal development and consequently prolongs pregnancy. Therefore, heterothermy has a great effect on reproduction, as an unhindered parturition can only be assured by high body temperatures. Regardless of these adverse affects of torpor the energetic requirements of bats during reproduction urge for energy savings and bats are known to enter torpor during pregnancy. The species in the current study differ in their torpor patterns and thus their heterothermic strategy. However, we hypothesized, that species-specific heterothermic behaviour should be revoked at the end of pregnancy. We analyzed skin temperatures of Myotis bechsteinii, Myotis nattereri and Plecotus auritus during ... |
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Stage of pregnancy dictates heterothermy in temperate forest-dwelling bats ... |
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