Name - Otomys sloggetti

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urn:lsid:organismnames.com:name:553119 [metadata]

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Recent Publications

• Animals as erosion agents in the alpine zone: some data and observations from Canada, Lesotho, and Tibet.
• Associated tympanic bullar and cochlear hypertrophy define adaptations to true deserts in African gerbils and laminate-toothed rats (Muridae: Gerbillinae and Murinae).
• Biomes, geology and past climate drive speciation of laminate-toothed rats on South African mountains (Murinae: Otomys).
• The cryptic case of Otomys sloggetti (Sloggett's vlei rat): Interpreting murid molar morphology in the fossil record.
• Counter-gradient variation and the expensive tissue hypothesis explain parallel brain size reductions at high elevation in cricetid and murid rodents.

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