ArticleRoyal Society open science2020
Metabolic rate in common shrews is unaffected by temperature, leading to lower energetic costs through seasonal size reduction.
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- Genomic comparisons and the adaptive basis of brain size plasticity and chromosomal instability in the Eurasian common shrew.Molecular biology and evolution · 2026Article
- Seasonal and comparative evidence of adaptive gene expression in mammalian brain size plasticity.eLife · 2025Article
- Body-Size Change in a Rodent Is Affected by Environmental Warming and Population-Specific Thermoneutral Zone.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2025Article
- Captivity alters behaviour but not seasonal brain size change in semi-naturally housed shrews.Royal Society open science · 2025Article
- Insight into Body Condition Variability in Small Mammals.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2024Article
- Fifty years of data show the effects of climate on overall skull size and the extent of seasonal reversible skull size changes (Dehnel's phenomenon) in the common shrew.Ecology and evolution · 2022Article
- Winter conditions, not resource availability alone, may drive reversible seasonal skull size changes in moles.Royal Society open science · 2022Article
- Geographic patterns in seasonal changes of body mass, skull, and brain size of common shrews.Ecology and evolution · 2021Review
- Production efficiency differences between poikilotherms and homeotherms have little to do with metabolic rate.Ecology letters · 2021Article
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Abstract
Small endothermic mammals have high metabolisms, particularly at cold temperatures. In the light of this, some species have evolved a seemingly illogical strategy: they reduce the size of the brain and several organs to become even smaller in winter. To test how this morphological strategy affects energy consumption across seasonally shifting ambient temperatures, we measured oxygen consumption and behaviour in the three seasonal phenotypes of the common shrew (
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