ArticleIntegrative and comparative biology2023
Rare and Opportunistic Use of Torpor in Mammals-An Echo from the Past?
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- Lack of Evidence for Gene-Level Convergence Linked to Evolutionary Shifts in Torpor Among Placental Mammals.Genome biology and evolution · 2026Article
- Daily torpor in summer- and winter-acclimated hamsters: are thermal biology and balancing energy budgets under a different seasonal physiological control?Journal of comparative physiology. B, Biochemical, systemic, and environmental physiology · 2026Article
- Are Hibernators Toast? Global Climate Change and Prolonged Seasonal Hibernation.Global change biology · 2026Review
- Environmental and population correlates of variation in short torpor use by wild hazel dormice (Muscardinus avellanarius).Oecologia · 2025Article
- Intraspecific variation in metabolic responses to diverse environmental conditions in the Malagasy bat Triaenops menamena.Journal of comparative physiology. B, Biochemical, systemic, and environmental physiology · 2025Article
- Rapid adaptation of cellular metabolic rate to the MicroRNA complements of mammals and its relevance to the evolution of endothermy.iScience · 2024Article
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Abstract
Torpor was traditionally seen as a winter survival mechanism employed by animals living in cold and highly seasonal habitats. Although we now know that torpor is also used by tropical and subtropical species, and in response to a variety of triggers, torpor is still largely viewed as a highly controlled, seasonal mechanism shown by Northern hemisphere species. To scrutinize this view, we report data from a macroanalysis in which we characterized the type and seasonality of torpor use from mammal species currently known to use torpor. Our findings suggest that predictable, seasonal torpor patterns reported for Northern temperate and polar species are highly derived forms of torpor expression, whereas the more opportunistic and variable forms of torpor that we see in tropical and subtropical species are likely closer to the patterns expressed by ancestral mammals. Our data emphasize that the torpor patterns observed in the tropics and subtropics should be considered the norm and not the exception.
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