Muscle spindle abundance is highly variable in vertebrates, but the functional determinants
of this variation are unclear. Recent work has shown that human leg muscles with the lowest …

Glires (rodents, lagomorphs and their fossil kin) is the most speciose and arguably most
diversified clade of living placentals. Different lineages within the Glires evolved basically …

Biological variation is often considered in a scalable hierarchy, eg, within the individual,
within the populations, above the species level. Morphological integration, the concept of …

Abstract Keywords: Arctic; Lepus arcticus; migration; movement ecology; satellite telemetry
EN Arctic Lepus arcticus migration movement ecology satellite telemetry 1 5 5 03/02/22 …

Paleoclimatic changes during the Pleistocene–Holocene transition is suggested as a main
factor that led to species extinction, including the woolly mammoth (Mammuthus …

Despite their importance as members of the Glires group, lagomorph diversification
processes have seldom been studied using molecular data. Notably, only a few …

Studies on the evolution of brain size variation usually focus on large clades encompassing
broad phylogenetic groups. This risks introducing 'noise'in the results, often obscuring …

The internal carotid artery (ICA) is one of the major vessels in the cranial circulation.
Characters concerning the ICA, such as its course in the auditory region, have been …

The taxonomic status and interspecies relationships of hares (genus Lepus) in Xinjiang,
China, remain ambiguous owing to extremely similar external morphologies, introgressive …

The endangered hispid hare (Caprolagus hispidus) is one of the least studied mammal
species. The recent rediscovery of hispid hare in Chitwan National Park (CNP) after three …