Anomalies and pathological changes of skulls and dentition of wild small mammal species from Germany

Title:

Anomalies and pathological changes of skulls and dentition of wild small mammal species from Germany

Creator:

Jentzsch, Matthias, Kraft, Richard, Lemkul, Anna, Kapischke, Hans-Jürgen, Maternowski, Hans-Werner, and Wolf, Ronny

Identifier:

https://cdk.lib.cas.cz/client/handle/uuid:f716278e-5260-4070-b464-5a13bc5f8113
uuid:f716278e-5260-4070-b464-5a13bc5f8113
doi:10.25225/jvb.20072

Subject:

anomaly, pathology, skull, and teeth

Type:

model:article and TEXT

Format:

počítač and online zdroj

Description:

Skulls, jaws and teeth of wild terrestrial small mammals (Sciuridae, Soricidae, Erinaceidae, Talpidae, Gliridae, Arvicolidae, Muridae) are occasionally affected by anomalies and pathologies. The present study documents a total of 362 anomalies and 122 pathological changes across 20 different species. These are all based on data published in Germany, supplemented by our own records. Cases were classified into 14 different categories, according to bone and dental anomalies, fractures and inclusions, bone proliferation, dental disease and extreme wear of teeth. An additional category to specifically account for bone proliferation of the skull was not needed, but such findings are to be expected. The most frequent finding was abnormal tooth growth, particularly the elongation of the upper incisors. In individual cases, there was evidence that small mammals are able to recover even from serious injuries to the skull.

Language:

English

Rights:

http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
policy:public

Coverage:

1-19

Source:

Journal of Vertebrate Biology | 2020 Volume:69 | Number:4

Harvested from:

CDK

Metadata only:

false