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Gene expression comparisons between captive and wild shrew brains reveal captivity effects.
Article in Biology letters, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.
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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
- Transcriptomic differences in immune- and stress-related pathways associated with artificial rearing in the endangered hog deer (Axis porcinus).BMC genomics · 2026Article
- Gene expression reveals the pancreas of Aselli as a critical organ for plasma cell differentiation in the Eurasian common shrew.BMC biology · 2025Article
- A universally applicable definition for domestication.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- Captivity alters behaviour but not seasonal brain size change in semi-naturally housed shrews.Royal Society open science · 2025Article
- Gene expression comparisons between captive and wild shrew brains reveal captivity effects.Biology letters · 2025Article
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Compared with their free-ranging counterparts, wild animals in captivity experience different conditions with lasting physiological and behavioural effects. Although shifts in gene expression are expected to occur upstream of these phenotypes, we found no previous gene expression comparisons of captive versus free-ranging mammals. We assessed gene expression profiles of three brain regions (cortex, olfactory bulb and hippocampus) of wild shrews (
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