Mice Tails: A Comprehensive Guide to Understanding and Managing Mice
WEBBalance and Coordination: Mice use their tails to maintain balance while navigating tightrope-like surfaces and climbing. The tail acts as a counterbalance, helping them make sharp turns and swift movements. Thermoregulation: The tail plays a …
Mice tails function in response to external and self ... - bioRxiv
WEBApr 22, 2024 · Here, leveraging high-speed videography, a novel naturalistic locomotory task and a simple biomechanical model analysis, we investigated the behavioral utility of the mouse tail. We observed that mice engage their tails on narrow ridge environments that mimic tree branches with narrow footholds prone …
WEBApr 18, 2024 · on mouse locomotion has largely omitted tail dynamics, but hints at its potential use in balancing can be seen in the natural habitats and behaviors of these rodents. Here, leveraging high-speed videography, a novel naturalistic locomotory task and a simple biomechanical model analysis, we investigated the behavioral utility of …
Future Tail Tales: A Forward-Looking, Integrative Perspective on Tail ...
WEBMay 17, 2021 · Examining tail function using a combination of these approaches, as well as computational and physical modeling, will provide deep insight into the evolutionary pathways and functional importance of tails to the locomotor system and beyond.
Introduction to an Evolutionary Tail: EvoDevo, Structure, and Function …
WEBJun 14, 2021 · The four main themes that emerged based on the research presented in this symposium are: (1) How do we define a tail?, (2) Development and regeneration inform evolutionary origins of tails, (3) Identifying key characteristics highlights functional morphology of tails, and (4) Tail multi-functionality leads to the development of …
Tail Length Evolution in Deer Mice: Linking Morphology, Behavior, …
WEBApr 19, 2021 · To assess tail function, we created a model of a deer mouse as a two-part object, consisting of an ellipsoid body and a conical frustum tail. The model is defined by the following eight parameters: the length of the three axes of the ellipsoid body, body mass, tail length, tail tip and tail base diameters, and the density of the tail.
Mouse Tail Thin Section - National MagLab
WEBThe tail of the mouse is composed of chondroid tissue, bone, tendon, muscle, and skin with hair follicles, as well as nerves and blood vessels. As a tale of success, the mouse's tail is playing a key role in ongoing stem cell research and development of possible cures for spinal cord injuries.
The contribution of the mouse tail to thermoregulation is modest
WEBAug 1, 2020 · Understanding mouse thermal physiology informs the usefulness of mice as models of human disease. It is widely assumed that the mouse tail contributes greatly to heat loss (as it does in rat), but this has not been quantitated. We studied C57BL/6J mice after tail amputation.
The ultimate and proximate mechanisms driving the evolution of …
WEBDec 27, 2016 · Of the morphological traits associated with forest habitats, arguably the best recognized is tail length, and evidence suggests that tail elongation may be an adaptive response to increased arboreality. Previous work has shown that deer mice use their tails extensively while climbing.
Mice tails function in response to external and self-generated …
WEBApr 18, 2024 · We describe and quantify the rapid mouse tail movements in response to external balance perturbations, possibly constituting a novel balance-compensatory motor program. Furthermore, we bring to light the consistent, context-dependent movements of the tail during increasingly precarious locomotion.
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