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List of works by Maria K. Oosthuizen

Adult neurogenesis and its anatomical context in the hippocampus of three mole-rat species

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Ambient Temperature as a Strong <i>Zeitgeber</i> of Circadian Rhythms in Response to Temperature Sensitivity and Poor Heat Dissipation Abilities in Subterranean African Mole-Rats

scientific article published in 2021

An immunohistochemical study of the gonadotrophin-releasing hormone 1 system in solitary Cape mole-rats, Georychus capensis, and social Natal mole-rats, Cryptomys hottentotus natalensis

scientific article published on 4 September 2008

Body temperature patterns and rhythmicity in free-ranging subterranean Damaraland mole-rats, Fukomys damarensis

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Circadian rhythms of locomotor activity in solitary and social species of African mole-rats (family: Bathyergidae).

scientific article published in December 2003

Circadian rhythms of locomotor activity in the Lesotho mole-rat, Cryptomys hottentotus subspecies from Sani Pass, South Africa

scientific article published on 26 July 2006

Circadian rhythms of locomotor activity in the subterranean Mashona mole rat, Cryptomys darlingi

scientific article published on 28 December 2004

Dim light at night affects the locomotor activity of nocturnal African pygmy mice (<i>Mus minutoides</i>) in an intensity-dependent manner

scientific article published in 2023

Effects of laboratory housing on exploratory behaviour, novelty discrimination and spatial reference memory in a subterranean, solitary rodent, the Cape mole-rat (Georychus capensis).

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Effects of photophase illuminance on locomotor activity, urine production and urinary 6-sulfatoxymelatonin in nocturnal and diurnal South African rodents.

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Effects of the colour of photophase light on locomotor activity in a nocturnal and a diurnal South African rodent

scientific article published on 02 October 2019

Energetics reveals physiologically distinct castes in a eusocial mammal

scientific article published in Nature

Exploratory behaviour, memory and neurogenesis in the social Damaraland mole-rat (Fukomys damarensis)

scientific article published on 12 June 2020

Fos expression in the suprachiasmatic nucleus in response to light stimulation in a solitary and social species of African mole-rat (family Bathyergidae).

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From Mice to Mole-Rats: Species-Specific Modulation of Adult Hippocampal Neurogenesis.

scientific article published on 30 October 2017

Heat and dehydration induced oxidative damage and antioxidant defenses following incubator heat stress and a simulated heat wave in wild caught four-striped field mice Rhabdomys dilectus

scientific article published on 13 November 2020

Locomotor Activity and Body Temperature Patterns over a Temperature Gradient in the Highveld Mole-Rat (Cryptomys hottentotus pretoriae).

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Locomotor activity patterns of captive East African root rats,Tachyoryctes splendens(Rodentia: Spalacidae), from Tanzania, East Africa

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Long bone histomorphogenesis of the naked mole-rat: Histodiversity and intraspecific variation

scientific article published on 11 December 2020

Neuroanatomical investigation of the gonadotrophin-releasing hormone 1 system in the seasonally breeding Cape dune mole-rat, Bathyergus suillus

scientific article published on 6 August 2008

Orexinergic neuron numbers in three species of African mole rats with rhythmic and arrhythmic chronotypes

scientific article published on 20 October 2011

Photic induction of Fos in the suprachiasmatic nucleus of African mole-rats: responses to increasing irradiance

scientific article published in September 2010

Physiological suppression eases in Damaraland mole-rat societies when ecological constraints on dispersal are relaxed

scientific article published on 6 November 2009

Reproductive suppression and the seasonality of reproduction in the social Natal mole-rat (Cryptomys hottentotus natalensis).

scientific article published on 20 September 2008

Sleep and wake in rhythmic versus arrhythmic chronotypes of a microphthalmic species of African mole rat (Fukomys mechowii).

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Sociality and the telencephalic distribution of corticotrophin-releasing factor, urocortin 3, and binding sites for CRF type 1 and type 2 receptors: A comparative study of eusocial naked mole-rats and solitary Cape mole-rats

scientific article published on 28 April 2015

Specialized mechanoreceptor systems in rodent glabrous skin

Telencephalic binding sites for oxytocin and social organization: a comparative study of eusocial naked mole-rats and solitary cape mole-rats.

scientific article published in May 2010

The chronobiology of the Natal mole-rat, Cryptomys hottentotus natalensis

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Trading new neurons for status: Adult hippocampal neurogenesis in eusocial Damaraland mole-rats

scientific article published on 12 March 2016