Génétique des Micro-organismes, Institut de Botanique, Boulevard du Rectorat, 27, 4000 Liège, Belgium (HH, JRM) University of Primorska, Science and Research Centre of Koper, Garibaldijeva 1, 6000 Koper, Slovenia (BK) Dipartimento Biologia Animale, Via Archirafi, 18-90123 Palermo, Italy (MS) Museu de Granollers–Ciències Naturals C/Francesc Macià, 51 08402 Granollers, Spain (AR) INRA, UMR CBGP (...

The remarkable increase in the number of colonies of edible dormouse (Glis glis L.) registered in the litoranean industrial cultivations of Pinus pinea L. in northern Tuscany over the last ten years and the grave damage to the production of pine-seeds consequent on it has created the necessity of studying systems which may reduce the dormouse menace. Going on what has previously been discovered...

This study aimed to evaluate the significance of dormice in diets predators Europe and, as a result, expand knowledge about dormouse ecology. A total 535 sources containing information on were analysed. Countries Southern and Central stand out with largest numbers target sources. Dormice recorded 54 predator species: 23 mammals, 11 owls, 16 diurnal birds 4 reptiles. Owls hunting forests, partic...

The term glucagon was coined by Kimball and an immunoreactant in common with glucagon (gut Murlin (1923) to describe a hyperglycaemic subGLIs). The extensive similarities between the stance which they had partially purified from an sequences of glucagon, VIP, secretin, and GIP have extract of bovine pancreas. In 1953, Staub et al. been discussed elsewhere in these proceedings. The crystallised ...

The structure of teeth in all living beings is genetically predetermined, although it can change under external physiological and pathological factors. The author's hypothesis was to indicate evolutional shifts resulting from genetic, functional and other differences. A comparative study about certain characteristics of incisors in humans and myomorpha, the fat dormouse (Glis glis) being their ...

We studied the impact of hibernation and food supply on relative telomere length (RTL), an indicator for aging and somatic maintenance, in free-living edible dormice. Small hibernators such as dormice have ∼50% higher maximum longevity than non-hibernators. Increased longevity could theoretically be due to prolonged torpor directly slowing cellular damage and RTL shortening. However, although m...

This investigation was undertaken to establish the gross and ultrastructural organization of the photoreceptors and retina in the Malayan tree shrew (Tupaia glis). Photographs of the fundus revealed no specialization or differentiation of a central foveal region. Histologic sections revealed a single row of relatively short and thick cones distributed uniformly throughout the retina. Electron m...