ArticleProceedings. Biological sciences2017
Diets derived from maize monoculture cause maternal infanticides in the endangered European hamster due to a vitamin B3 deficiency.
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- Restoring the common hamster's farmland habitat-how crop associations might benefitRoyal Society open science · 2025Article
- The endangered common hamster needs proteins: identifying diversified crop-based diets improving hibernation and reproductive success.Conservation physiology · 2024Article
- Supplementation in vitamin B3 counteracts the negative effects of tryptophan deficiencies in bumble bees.Conservation physiology · 2023Article
- Impacts of Dietary Protein and Niacin Deficiency on Reproduction Performance, Body Growth, and Gut Microbiota of Female Hamsters (Tscherskia triton) and Their Offspring.Microbiology spectrum · 2022Article
- Morphometric parameters predict body fat proportions in common hamsters.Journal of mammalogy · 2022Article
- Factors influencing range contraction of a rodent herbivore in a steppe grassland over the past decades.Ecology and evolution · 2022Article
- Gut microbiota of the European Brown Hare (Lepus europaeus).Scientific reports · 2019Article
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- Meat and Nicotinamide: A Causal Role in Human Evolution, History, and Demographics.International journal of tryptophan research : IJTR · 2017Review
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Abstract
From 1735 to 1940, maize-based diets led to the death of hundreds of thousands of people from pellagra, a complex disease caused by tryptophan and vitamin B3 deficiencies. The current cereal monoculture trend restricts farmland animals to similarly monotonous diets. However, few studies have distinguished the effects of crop nutritional properties on the reproduction of these species from those of other detrimental factors such as pesticide toxicity or agricultural ploughing. This study shows that maize-based diets cause high rates of maternal infanticides in the European hamster, a farmland species on the verge of extinction in Western Europe. Vitamin B3 supplementation is shown to effectively restore reproductive success in maize-fed females. This study pinpoints how nutritional deficiencies caused by maize monoculture could affect farmland animal reproduction and hence their fitness.
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