Barry van Jaarsveld

Regularly drinking desert birds have greater evaporative cooling capacity and higher heat tolerance limits than non‐drinking species

Zenon J. Czenze, Ryno Kemp, Barry van Jaarsveld et al. · Functional Ecology · 2020 · 63 citations

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The hypoxia tolerance of eight related African mole‐rat species rivals that of naked mole‐rats, despite divergent ventilatory and metabolic strategies in severe hypoxia

Catherine M. Ivy, Ryan J. Sprenger, Nigel C. Bennett et al. · Acta Physiologica · 2019 · 58 citations

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Naked mole-rat brown fat thermogenesis is diminished during hypoxia through a rapid decrease in UCP1

Hang Cheng, Rajaa Sebaa, Nikita Malholtra et al. · Nature Communications · 2021 · 50 citations · Full text

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Locomotor activity and body temperature rhythms in the Mahali mole-rat (C. h. mahali): The effect of light and ambient temperature variations

Barry van Jaarsveld, Nigel C. Bennett, Daniel W. Hart et al. · Journal of Thermal Biology · 2018 · 36 citations

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The brains of six African mole-rat species show divergent responses to hypoxia

Samantha M. Logan, Kama E. Szereszewski, Nigel C. Bennett et al. · Journal of Experimental Biology · 2020 · 32 citations · Full text

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