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List of works by Radim Šumbera

A New Record of the Endangered White-winged Nightjar (Eleothreptus candicans) from Beni, Bolivia

scholarly article by Tomáš Grim & Radim Šumbera published March 2006 in The Wilson Journal of Ornithology

A maze-lover's dream: Burrow architecture, natural history and habitat characteristics of Ansell's mole-rat (Fukomys anselli)

article by Jan Šklíba et al published November 2012 in Mammalian Biology

A new member or an intruder: how do Sinai spiny mouse (Acomys dimidiatus) families respond to a male newcomer?

A new rodent species of the genus Mus (Rodentia: Muridae) confirms the biogeographical uniqueness of the isolated forests of southern Ethiopia

scientific article published in 2022

A seasonal difference of daily energy expenditure in a free-living subterranean rodent, the silvery mole-rat (Heliophobius argenteocinereus; Bathyergidae).

scientific article published on 19 September 2010

Activity of free-living subterranean blind mole ratsSpalax galili(Rodentia: Spalacidae) in an area of supposed sympatric speciation

Adaptations to a subterranean environment and longevity revealed by the analysis of mole rat genomes.

scientific article

Alloparental behaviour in Sinai spiny mice Acomys dimidiatus: a case of misdirected parental care?

scientific article published in 2016

Attracted by a magnet: Exploration behaviour of rodents in the presence of magnetic objects.

scientific article published in March 2018

Behavioural Tests Reveal Severe Visual Deficits in the Strictly Subterranean African Mole-Rats (Bathyergidae) but Efficient Vision in the Fossorial Rodent Coruro (Spalacopus cyanus, Octodontidae)

Biogeographic implications of small mammals from Northern Highlands in Tanzania with first data from the volcanic Mount Kitumbeine

scholarly article by Christopher Sabuni et al published 26 July 2018 in Mammalia

Biology of the Silvery Mole-rat (Heliophobius argenteocinereus). Why Study a Neglected Subterranean Rodent Species?

article

Bite force in the strictly subterranean rodent family of African mole‐rats (Bathyergidae): The role of digging mode, social organization and ecology

scientific article published on 2 August 2022

Burrow architecture, family composition and habitat characteristics of the largest social African mole-rat: the giant mole-rat constructs really giant burrow systems

article

Burrow systems of mole-rats as refuges for frogs in the Miombo woodlands of south-east Africa

article

Burrowing below ground: interaction between soil mechanics and evolution of subterranean mammals

scientific article published on 08 January 2020

Continuous dental replacement in a hyper-chisel tooth digging rodent

scientific article (publication date: 18 October 2011)

Cost of digging is determined by intrinsic factors rather than by substrate quality in two subterranean rodent species

scientific article published in January 2010

Cross-Cultural Agreement in Perception of Animal Beauty: Boid Snakes Viewed by People from Five Continents

article by Daniel Frynta et al published December 2011 in Human Ecology

Dental peculiarities in the silvery mole-rat: an original model for studying the evolutionary and biological origins of continuous dental generation in mammals

scientific article

Determinants of Daily Activity Patterns in a Free-Living Afrotropical Solitary Subterranean Rodent

article by Jan Šklíba et al published 20 August 2007 in Journal of Mammalogy

Does the morphology of the ear of the Chinese bamboo rat (Rhizomys sinensis) show "Subterranean" characteristics?

scientific article published on 16 February 2016

Ecological role of the giant root-rat (Tachyoryctes macrocephalus) in the Afroalpine ecosystem.

scientific article published on 13 October 2016

Eimeria burdai sp. n. (Apicomplexa: Eimeriidae), a new parasite species from subterranean African silvery mole-rat, Heliophobius argenteocinereus

scientific article

Energetics in a solitary subterranean rodent, the silvery mole-rat, Heliophobius argenteocinereus, and allometry of RMR in African mole-rats (Bathyergidae).

scientific article

Enigmatic Ethiopian endemic rodent Muriculus imberbis (Rüppell 1842) represents a separate lineage within genus Mus

Ethiopian highlands as a cradle of the African fossorial root-rats (genus Tachyoryctes), the genetic evidence

scientific article published on 4 April 2018

Evaporative water loss in seven species of fossorial rodents: Does effect of degree of fossoriality and sociality exist?

scientific article published on 04 March 2020

Evolution of the Grey-bellied pygmy mouse group: highly structured molecular diversity with predictable geographic ranges but morphological crypsis

scientific article published on 12 October 2018

Evolutionary history and species diversity of African pouched mice (Rodentia: Nesomyidae:Saccostomus)

article

Evolutionary history of the thicket rats (genus Grammomys ) mirrors the evolution of African forests since late Miocene

Extended longevity of reproductives appears to be common in Fukomys mole-rats (Rodentia, Bathyergidae).

scientific article

Functional histology of the skin in the subterranean African giant mole-rat: thermal windows are determined solely by pelage characteristics

scientific article published on 08 April 2020

Gas composition and its daily changes within burrows and nests of an Afroalpine fossorial rodent, the giant root-rat Tachyoryctes macrocephalus

scientific article published on 04 July 2020

Genetic distinction between contiguous urban and rural multimammate mice in Tanzania despite gene flow.

scientific article published on 16 June 2016

Genetic variation of the most abundant forest‐dwelling rodents in Central Africa ( Praomys jacksoni complex): Evidence for Pleistocene refugia in both montane and lowland forests

Habitat and Burrow System Characteristics of the Blind Mole Rat Spalax galili in an Area of Supposed Sympatric Speciation

scientific article published on 20 July 2015

Home-Range Dynamics in a Solitary Subterranean Rodent

article

Kinship structure and mating system in a solitary subterranean rodent, the silvery mole-rat

scientific article published in 2009

Life in Burrows Channelled the Morphological Evolution of the Skull in Rodents: the Case of African Mole-Rats (Bathyergidae, Rodentia)

Light perception in two strictly subterranean rodents: life in the dark or blue?

scientific article published on 28 July 2010

Microclimate in Burrows of Subterranean Rodents — Revisited

Microclimatic stability in burrows of an Afrotropical solitary bathyergid rodent, the silvery mole-rat (Heliophobius argenteocinereus)

scientific article published in 2004

Molecular systematics and biogeographic history of the African climbing-mouse complex (Dendromus)

Multilocus phylogeny of African striped grass mice (Lemniscomys): stripe pattern only partly reflects evolutionary relationships

scientific article published on 04 November 2020

Multilocus phylogeny of East African gerbils (Rodentia, Gerbilliscus ) illuminates the history of the Somali-Masai savanna

scholarly article by Tatiana Aghová et al published 28 May 2017 in Journal of Biogeography

Multilocus phylogeography of a widespread savanna-woodland-adapted rodent reveals the influence of Pleistocene geomorphology and climate change in Africa's Zambezi region.

scientific article

Multiple radiations of spiny mice (Rodentia: Acomys) in dry open habitats of Afro-Arabia: evidence from a multi-locus phylogeny

scientific article published on 04 March 2019

New discoveries on the ecology and echolocation of the heart-nosed bat Cardioderma cor with a contribution to the phylogeny of Megadermatidae

journal article; published in African Zoology in 2015

Pan-African phylogeny of Mus (subgenus Nannomys) reveals one of the most successful mammal radiations in Africa

scientific article

Parentage analysis of Ansell's mole-rat family groups indicates a high reproductive skew despite relatively relaxed ecological constraints on dispersal.

scientific article published on 31 August 2013

Patterns of surface temperatures in two mole-rats (Bathyergidae) with different social systems as revealed by IR-thermography

scientific article published on 29 April 2007

Phylogeography of a widespread sub-Saharan murid rodent Aethomys chrysophilus: the role of geographic barriers and paleoclimate in the Zambezian bioregion

Poikilothermic traits in Mashona mole-rat (Fukomys darlingi). Reality or myth?

Possible incipient sympatric ecological speciation in blind mole rats (Spalax).

scientific article published on 28 January 2013

REPRODUCTIVE BIOLOGY OF A SOLITARY SUBTERRANEAN BATHYERGID RODENT, THE SILVERY MOLE-RAT (HELIOPHOBIUS ARGENTEOCINEREUS)

article published in 2003

Reactions to disturbances in the context of antipredatory behaviour in a solitary subterranean rodent

Resource characteristics and foraging adaptations in the silvery mole-rat (Heliophobius argenteocinereus), a solitary Afrotropical bathyergid

scientific article published in 2011

Reticulate Pleistocene evolution of Ethiopian rodent genus along remarkable altitudinal gradient.

scientific article

Secondary sex ratios do not support maternal manipulation: extensive data from laboratory colonies of spiny mice (Muridae: Acomys)

scientific article published in 2009

Seismic communication in demon African mole rat Tachyoryctes daemon from Tanzania

scholarly article by Ema Hrouzková et al published 1 May 2013 in Journal of Ethology

Silvery mole-rats ( Heliophobius argenteocinereus, Bathyergidae) change their burrow architecture seasonally.

scientific article published on 8 July 2003

Social and Environmental Influences on Daily Activity Pattern in Free-Living Subterranean Rodents: The Case of a Eusocial Bathyergid

scientific article published on 10 June 2014

Social and life history correlates of litter size in captive colonies of precocial spiny mice (Acomys)

Social structure predicts genital morphology in African mole-rats

scientific article

Social thermoregulation and socio-physiological effect in the subterranean Mashona mole-rat (Fukomys darlingi)

scientific article published on 30 October 2018

Sociality does not drive the evolution of large brains in eusocial African mole-rats.

scientific article

Spatial and temporal activity patterns of the free-living giant mole-rat (Fukomys mechowii), the largest social bathyergid

scientific article

Spiny mice of the Zambezian bioregion – phylogeny, biogeography and ecological differentiation within the Acomys spinosissimus complex

scholarly article by Jan Petružela et al published July 2018 in Mammalian Biology

Surprisingly long survival of premature conclusions about naked mole-rat biology

scientific article published on 30 October 2020

Surprisingly low risk of overheating during digging in two subterranean rodents.

scientific article

The biology of an isolated Mashona mole-rat population from southern Malawi, with implications for the diversity and biogeography of the genus Fukomys

scientific article published in 2023

The phylogeography of the rodent genusMalacomyssuggests multiple Afrotropical Pleistocene lowland forest refugia

The role of dispersal and vicariance in the Pleistocene history of an East African mountain rodent,Praomys delectorum

Thermal biology of a strictly subterranean mammalian family, the African mole-rats (Bathyergidae, Rodentia) - a review

scientific article published on 15 November 2018

Variability of space-use patterns in a free living eusocial rodent, Ansell's mole-rat indicates age-based rather than caste polyethism.

scientific article published on 06 December 2016

Vocal repertoire of the social Mashona mole-rat (Fukomys darlingi) and how it compares with other mole-rats

Vocalizations of the giant mole-rat (Fukomys mechowii), a subterranean rodent with the richest vocal repertoire

What determines the way of deposition of excavated soil

Work behaviour and biting performance in the cooperative breeding Micklem’s mole-rat Fukomys micklemi (Bathyergidae, Rodentia)

scholarly article

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