Modern lifestyle reduces environmental rhythmicity and may lead to circadian desynchrony.
We are exposed to poor day-time lighting indoors and excessive night-time artificial light. We …

When housing hamsters and gerbils little has been done to identify the preferences of these
species. The solitary nature of fat sand rats and hamsters is often discordant with housing …

The causative agent of cutaneous leishmaniasis, Leishmania major, was studied in a
Tunisian population of the fat sand rat, Psammomys obesus. Seasonal changes in the …

Daily rhythms are heavily influenced by light in two major ways. One is through photic
entrainment of a circadian clock, and the other is through a more direct process, referred to …

Cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) is a zoonotic vector-borne neglected tropical disease
transmitted by female Phlebotomine sand flies. It is distributed globally but a large proportion …

Rodents affect soil microbial communities by burrow architecture, diet composition, and
foraging behavior. We examined the effect of desert rodents on nitrogen-fixing bacteria …

Isodar theory was applied to the analysis of habitat selection by a diurnal folivorous gerbil
species, Psammomys obesus, in the Central Negev Desert, Israel. In this site, the species …

A thorough taxonomic knowledge about putative animal reservoirs of transmissible diseases
is an absolute prerequisite to any ecological investigation and epidemiological survey of …

We studied dietary intakes and time budgets in two desert gerbillids, Psammomys obesus, a
diurnal herbivore, and Meriones crassus, a nocturnal granivore. P. obesus was offered fresh …

Fat sand rats (Psammomys obesus) are strictly herbivorous and live in densely complex
burrows in the desert of North Africa and the Middle East. Little is known however about the …