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Insectivora

Known as: insectivores 
An order of insect eating MAMMALS including MOLES; SHREWS; HEDGEHOGS and tenrecs.
National Institutes of Health

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Mammals

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Highly Cited
2009
Highly Cited
2009
Species-energy theory, pulsed resources, and regulation of avian richness during a mountain pine beetle outbreak.
Species-energy theory provides a framework through which to link two features commonly noted in local communities: episodic… 
Highly Cited
2002
Highly Cited
2002
Molecular evidence for the monophyly of tenrecidae (mammalia) and the timing of the colonization of Madagascar by Malagasy Tenrecs.
Tenrecs are a diverse family of insectivores, with an Afro-Malagasian biogeographic distribution. Three subfamilies (Geogalinae… 
Review
2001
Review
2001
Colonization of an island volcano, Long Island, Papua New Guinea, and an emergent island, Motmot, in its caldera lake. VII. Overview and discussion
Location, aims Long Island's biota was destroyed by volcanic eruption in c. 1645, and Motmot, an emergent island in its caldera… 
Highly Cited
2000
Highly Cited
2000
Density compensation in New World bat communities
Understanding the role of competitive interactions in shaping the structure of communities has been one the most unrelenting… 
Highly Cited
1995
Highly Cited
1995
Use of the index of biotic integrity to assess physical habitat degradation in warmwater streams
Indices of biotic integrity (1131) were computed for two annual fish collections from 27 locations along the bluffline bordering… 
Highly Cited
1986
Highly Cited
1986
Temporal dynamics of neotropical birds with special reference to frugivores in second-growth woods
-Birds were mist-netted and banded in a second-growth woodland in central Panama to examine temporal dynamics of capture rates… 
1983
1983
Phylogeny through brain traits: trees generated by neural characters.
Phylogenetic trees were computed by the Wagner algorithm from data on up to 15 brain characters scored on 154 specimens of 134… 
Highly Cited
1977
Highly Cited
1977
Social and Individual Behaviors in Captive Slow Lorises
Two groups of wild-born slow lorises were housed together in a semi-natural laboratory environment for 20 weeks. The animals are… 
1975
1975
Species differences in mechanosensory projections from the mouth to the ventrobasal thalamus
To determine whether the largely ipsilateral, inverted representation of mouth parts in the ventrobasal thalamus of sheep was… 
Highly Cited
1974
Highly Cited
1974
A comparative golgi sutdy of the neocortex in insectivores and rodents.
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