Widespread exposure to anticoagulant rodenticides among common urban mesopredators in Chicago

JY Buckley, MH Murray, NU de la Sancha… - Science of The Total …, 2024 - Elsevier
Anticoagulant rodenticides (ARs) are currently the most common method to control rats in
cities, but these compounds also cause morbidity and mortality in non-target wildlife. Little …

A solution to the challenges of interdisciplinary aggregation and use of specimen-level trait data

MA Balk, J Deck, KF Emery, RL Walls, D Reuter… - Iscience, 2022 - cell.com
Understanding variation of traits within and among species through time and across space is
central to many questions in biology. Many resources assemble species-level trait data, but …

Insectivory leads to functional convergence in a group of Neotropical rodents

RV Missagia, BD Patterson, D Krentzel… - Journal of Evolutionary …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
The mandible of vertebrates serves as insertion area for masticatory muscles that originate
on the skull, and its functional properties are subject to selective forces related to trophic …

Small mammal glucocorticoid concentrations vary with forest fragment size, trap type, and mammal taxa in the Interior Atlantic Forest

SA Boyle, NU de la Sancha, P Pérez, D Kabelik - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
Species that live in degraded habitats often show signs of physiological stress.
Glucocorticoid hormones (eg, corticosterone and cortisol) are often assessed as a proxy of …

Ontogenetic shape trajectory of Trichomycterus areolatus varies in response to water velocity environment

PC Searle, M Mercer, E Habit, MC Belk - PLoS One, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Body and head shape among fishes both vary between environments influenced by water
velocity and across ontogeny. Although the shape changes associated with variation in …

Andean rain shadow effect drives phenotypic variation in a widely distributed Austral rodent

P Teta, NU de la Sancha, G D'Elía… - Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Mountains cover approximately 22% of the planet's terrestrial surface and have
dramatic effects on climate and biodiversity. The rain shadow effect is a common feature on …

Functional indices and postnatal ontogeny of long bones of the forelimb in the sigmodontine rodents (Rodentia: Cricetidae)

LV Carrizo, MJ Tulli, V Abdala - Journal of Mammalian Evolution, 2021 - Springer
The adaptations for a particular locomotor type (eg, fossorial or saltatorial) could affect limb
bone morphology throughout ontogeny. We explore how the measurements of the forelimbs …

Discovery of a new genus record for Paraguay, the Atlantic Forest endemic rodent Abrawayaomys (Cricetidae, Sigmodontinae)

NU De La Sancha, GS Libardi, UFJ Pardiñas - Mammalia, 2020 - degruyter.com
The mammals of Paraguay are still poorly known. We report a new genus for the country,
Abrawayaomys, a spiny cricetid rodent endemic for the Interior Atlantic Forest. This record …

Morphological description and comparison of sperm from eighteen species of cricetid rodents

LF Rossi, NU De La Sancha, JP Luaces… - Journal of …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Analyses of the dimensions and morphology of spermatozoa can be useful in the
identification of mammalian species. We compared and contrasted sperm morphology and …

Evolutionary patterns of cranial ontogeny in Sigmodontines (Rodentia, Cricetidae)

V Segura, D Flores, P Jayat… - Journal of Zoological …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Sigmodontines comprise one of the most diverse radiations of mammals. The cranial
ontogeny has been studied in several mammals, but remains poorly studied in the group …