Spalax Mb mRNA levels, but rat Mb mRNA levels increased threefold. From Wordnik.com. [Ars Technica] Reference
Spalax judaei live in the Judean desert to the south, which is warm and dry. From Wordnik.com. [Ars Technica] Reference
Spalax expressed 2-3 fold more Ngb RNA and protein than rats under normal conditions. From Wordnik.com. [Ars Technica] Reference
Spalax are known to have increased levels of Hb, and their Hb has a high affinity for oxygen. From Wordnik.com. [Ars Technica] Reference
Some think that this Hebrew word rather denotes the mole (Spalax typhlus) common in Palestine. From Wordnik.com. [Easton's Bible Dictionary] Reference
Spalax galili live in the Galilee, the Northern part of the country, which is cool and moist; they have the most efficient hypoxic adaptation. From Wordnik.com. [Ars Technica] Reference
Ash Ra Tempel - Ash Ra Tempel (Spalax) and Led Zeppelin, but also on a lot of German electronic music from the '70s, like Tangerine Dream and Klaus Schulze. From Wordnik.com. [The Big Takeover] Reference
These proteins are highly conserved among the Spalax species, so a difference in function did not seem to account for their different abilities to tolerate hypoxia. From Wordnik.com. [Ars Technica] Reference
Spalax expressed two- to three-fold more Cygb mRNA and protein than normal rats under normoxia as well, but only in the brain, not in the heart or liver muscle tissues. From Wordnik.com. [Ars Technica] Reference
The evolutionary process has given these subterranean rodents, classified as the genus Spalax, massive teeth and tough claws for digging--and more or less zero eyesight. From Wordnik.com. [CNET News.com] Reference
Spalax have evolved to tolerate this environment by expressing more of their oxygen-carrying globins than other rats, which help them survive at low ambient oxygen levels. From Wordnik.com. [Ars Technica] Reference
In recent work, the researchers compared the sequences and expression levels of the other globin genes among the different Spalax species with those of the hypoxia sensitive rat, under both normoxic and hypoxic conditions. From Wordnik.com. [Ars Technica] Reference
Spalax from Israel. From Wordnik.com. [Ars Technica] Reference
The following animals from this ecoregion included in the IUCN Red Data List: (1) Mammals: corsac fox (Vulpes corsac), saiga antelope (Saiga tatarica tatarica), giant mole-rat (Spalax giganteus), steppe pika (Ochotona pusilla), bobac marmot (Marmota bobac), ground squirrel (Spermophilus major), birch ouse (Sicista subtilis), migratory hamster (Cricetulus migratorius); and (2) Birds: white-headed duck (Oxyura leucocephala), imperial eagle (Aquila heliaca), lesser kestrel (Falco naumanni), pallid harrier (Circus macrourus), great bustard (Otis tarda), little bustard (Tetrax tetrax), black-winged pratincole (Glareola nordmanni) and sociable plover (Vanellus gregarius). From Wordnik.com. [Kazakh steppe] Reference
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