High frequency audible calls in northern birch mice Sicista betulina in response to handling: effects of individuality, sex and body mass on the acoustics

Volodin, Ilya A.; Klenova, Anna V.; Ilchenko, Olga G.; Volodina, Elena V.

doi:10.1186/s13104-019-4719-9

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“…Other gliders have few extant relatives and we strategically chose taxa that shared similar evolutionary histories and traits. For the scaly-tailed gliders, we selected springhares ( Pedetes capensisi ), the only other extant taxa of the Anomaluromorpha suborder, and a variety of small-bodied rodents (12 species across 16 publications) exhibiting a range of vocal frequencies (maximum dominant frequency range: 9.86 ( Sicista subtilis ; Volodin et al, 2019a ) - 109.8 kHz ( Mus musculus ; Hoffmann, Musolf & Penn, 2012 )). For colugos, the only extant members of the order Dermoptera, we selected tree shrews ( Tupaia belangeri ) which form a sister clade with Dermoptera ( Nie et al, 2008 ) and similarly sized taxa from the order Primates (19 primates across 27 publications), which are the next closest sister taxa ( Beard, 1993 ).…”

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Ultrasound and ultraviolet: crypsis in gliding mammals

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Schneiderová,

Hughes

et al. 2024

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Gliding is only present in six extant groups of mammals—interestingly, despite divergent evolutionary histories, all mammalian gliders are strictly nocturnal. Gliding mammals also seem to have relatively high rates of ultrasound use and ultraviolet-induced photoluminescence (UVP) in contrast with their close relatives. Therefore, we hypothesized that, despite diverging lineages, gliding mammals use similar modes of cryptic communication compared to their non-gliding counterparts. We developed two datasets containing the vocal range (minimum-maximum of the dominant harmonic; kHz) and UVP of 73 and 82 species, respectively; we report four novel vocal repertoires and 57 novel observations of the presence or absence of UVP. We complemented these datasets with information about body size, diel activity patterns, habitat openness, and sociality to explore possible covariates related to vocal production and UVP. We found that the maximum of the dominant harmonic was significant higher in gliding mammals when vocalizing than their non-gliding relatives. Additionally, we found that nocturnality was the only significant predictor of UVP, consistent with the previous hypothesis that luminophores primarily drive UVP in mammal fur. In contrast, however, we did not find UVP ubiquitous in nocturnal mammals, suggesting that some unknown process may contribute to variation in this trait.

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