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Chitty and Austin1 concluded that the short-tailed field vole (Microtus agrestis) showed two kinds of oestrous behaviour; there was either “a typical short oestrous cycle … or else prolonged ...

Anyone who lives in Chicago might think nothing of a chipmunk scurrying by, but all the scraps of processed food that the local chipmunks have pilfered from human garbage cans hav ...

Chipmunks are members of the same family as squirrels. The small rodents spend most of their time aboveground, eating seeds, ...

Voles (Microtus pennsylvanicus), on the other hand, didn’t grow bigger, but their skulls changed more dramatically. They developed flatter skulls and smaller auditory bullae—bony structures in the ...

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Solomon NG, Jacquot JJ (2002) Characteristics of resident and wandering prairie voles, Microtus ochrogaster. Canadian Journal of Zoology 80:951-955. Tai LH, Lee AM, Benavidez N, Bonci A, Wilbrecht L ...

本研究通过分析意大利博尔扎诺省148只赤狐胃内容物，首次系统鉴定了维持多房棘球绦虫(Em)传播的中间宿主群落，发现普通田鼠(Microtus arvalis)在狐类食谱中占比达81.7%且是唯一Em阳性物种，揭示了该寄生虫在阿尔卑斯山南缘持续存在的生态机制，为边缘流行区防控提供关键数据。