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2021-04-06Zeitschriftenartikel DOI: 10.18452/22981
Mechanics of Arboreal Locomotion in Swinhoe’s Striped Squirrels: A Potential Model for Early Euarchontoglires
dc.contributor.authorWölfer, Jan
dc.contributor.authorAschenbach, Tina
dc.contributor.authorMichel, Jenny
dc.contributor.authorNyakatura, John
dc.date.accessioned2021-06-17T09:04:44Z
dc.date.available2021-06-17T09:04:44Z
dc.date.issued2021-04-06none
dc.date.updated2021-04-20T05:02:01Z
dc.identifier.urihttp://edoc.hu-berlin.de/18452/23647
dc.descriptionThis article was supported by the German Research Foundation (DFG) and the Open Access Publication Fund of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
dc.description.abstractDifferences between arboreal and terrestrial supports likely pose less contrasting functional demands on the locomotor system at a small body size. For arboreal mammals of small body size, asymmetrical gaits have been demonstrated to be advantageous to increase dynamic stability. Many of the extant arboreal squirrel-related rodents display a small body size, claws on all digits, and limited prehensility, a combination that was proposed to have characterized the earliest Euarchontoglires. Thus, motion analysis of such a modern analog could shed light onto the early locomotor evolution of eurarchontoglirans. In this study, we investigated how Swinhoe’s striped squirrels (Tamiops swinhoei; Scuiromorpha) adjust their locomotion when faced with different orientations on broad supports and simulated small branches. We simultaneously recorded high-Hz videos (501 trials) and support reaction forces (451 trials) of squirrels running on two types of instrumented trackways installed at either a 45° incline (we recorded locomotion on inclines and declines) or with a horizontal orientation. The striped squirrels almost exclusively used asymmetrical gaits with a preference for full bounds. Locomotion on simulated branches did not differ substantially from locomotion on the flat trackway. We interpreted several of the quantified adjustments on declines and inclines (in comparison to horizontal supports) as mechanisms to increase stability (e.g., by minimizing toppling moments) and as adjustments to the differential loading of fore- and hind limbs on inclined supports. Our data, in addition to published comparative data and similarities to the locomotion of other small arboreal rodents, tree shrews, and primates as well as a likely small body size at the crown-group node of Euarchontoglires, render a preference for asymmetrical gaits in early members of the clade plausible. This contributes to our understanding of the ancestral lifestyle of this mammalian ‘superclade’.eng
dc.language.isoengnone
dc.publisherHumboldt-Universität zu Berlin
dc.rights(CC BY 4.0) Attribution 4.0 Internationalger
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subjectTamiopseng
dc.subjectlocomotioneng
dc.subjectsupport reaction forceseng
dc.subjectgaiteng
dc.subjectasymmetrical locomotioneng
dc.subject.ddc333.7 Natürliche Resourcen, Energie und Umweltnone
dc.subject.ddc570 Biologienone
dc.titleMechanics of Arboreal Locomotion in Swinhoe’s Striped Squirrels: A Potential Model for Early Euarchontogliresnone
dc.typearticle
dc.identifier.urnurn:nbn:de:kobv:11-110-18452/23647-4
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.18452/22981
dc.type.versionpublishedVersionnone
local.edoc.pages18none
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dc.description.versionPeer Reviewednone
dc.identifier.eissn2296-701X
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.doi10.3389/fevo.2021.636039none
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.journaltitleFrontiers in Ecology and Evolutionnone
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.volume9none
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.articlenumber636039none
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.originalpublishernameFrontiers Medianone
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.originalpublisherplaceLausannenone
bua.import.affiliationWölfer, Jan; AG Vergleichende Zoologie, Institut für Biologie, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germanynone
bua.import.affiliationAschenbach, Tina; AG Vergleichende Zoologie, Institut für Biologie, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germanynone
bua.import.affiliationMichel, Jenny; AG Vergleichende Zoologie, Institut für Biologie, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany; Abteilung Zoologie, Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germanynone
bua.import.affiliationNyakatura, John A.; AG Vergleichende Zoologie, Institut für Biologie, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germanynone
bua.departmentLebenswissenschaftliche Fakultätnone

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