Skin morphology in context of thermoregulation and heat dissipation in the social African mole-rat Fukomys mechowii

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Skin morphology in context of thermoregulation and heat dissipation in the social African mole-rat Fukomys mechowii

Original language description

Giant mole-rats (Fukomys mechowii), as other members of the family of African mole-rats (Bathyergidae), are subterranean rodents which spend their whole lives in self-constructed burrow systems. Digging and maintaining of burrows is physically demanding and produces large amount of metabolic heat, potentially leading to body overheating. Heat dissipation underground is constrained by limited ventilation and high humidity in burrows. Moreover, mole-rats lack body appendages, such as long legs, auricles or tails, which could enhance body surface and be used for heat dissipation. The most efficient way to dissipate surplus heat seems to be conduction, i.e. pressing specialized body parts to burrow walls. Relatively high thermal conductance found in subterranean rodents suggests that conduction is indeed a most efficient way for thermoregulation in these animals. Body parts with the most prominent thermal exchange, the so-called thermal windows, were described in several mammalian species. Thermal windo

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10613 - Zoology

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2019

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

JOURNAL OF MORPHOLOGY

ISSN

0362-2525

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

280

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2019

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

2

Pages from-to

202-203

UT code for WoS article

000470768500617

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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