Publications of Lara Keicher

Komar, E.; Szafrańska, P. A.; Dechmann, D. K. N.; Keicher, L.; Koprowska, D.; Shipley, J. R.; Ruczyński, I.: Positive consequences of group living among male bats during spermatogenesis. The Journal of Experimental Biology (2025)

Dietzer, M. T.; Keicher, L.; Kohles, J. E.; Hurme, E.; Ruczyński, I.; Borowik, T.; Zegarek, M.; Choiński, M.; Dechmann, D. K. N.: High temporal resolution data reveal low bat and insect activity over managed meadows in central Europe. Scientific Reports 14 (1), 7498 (2024)

Keicher, L.; Shipley, J. R.; Dietzer, M. T.; Wikelski, M.; Dechmann, D. K. N.: Heart rate monitoring reveals differential seasonal energetic trade-offs in male noctule bats. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 291 (2026), 20240855 (2024)

Keicher, L.; Shipley, J. R.; Schaeffer, P. J.; Dechmann, D. K. N.: Contrasting torpor use by reproductive male common noctule bats in the laboratory and in the field. Integrative and Comparative Biology 63 (5), pp. 1087 - 1098 (2023)

Pohle, A.-K.; Zalewski, A.; Muturi, M.; Dullin, C.; Farkova, L.; Keicher, L.; Dechmann, D. K. N.: Domestication effect of reduced brain size is reverted when mink become feral. Royal Society Open Science 10 (7), 230463 (2023)

Shankar, A.; Welch, K. C.; Eberts, E. R.; Geiser, F.; Halter, S.; Keicher, L.; Levesque, D. L.; Nowack, J.; Wolf, B. O.; Wolfe, S. W.: Daily torpor in birds and mammals: Past, present, and future of the field. Integrative and Comparative Biology 63 (5), icad095, pp. 1017 - 1027 (2023)

Keicher, L.; Shipley, J. R.; Komar, E.; Ruczynski, I.; Schaeffer, P. J.; Dechmann, D. K. N.: Flexible energy-saving strategies in female temperate-zone bats. Journal of Comparative Physiology B-Biochemical Systemic and Environmental Physiology 192, pp. 805 - 814 (2022)

Schaeffer, P. J.; O'Mara, M. T.; Breiholz, J.; Keicher, L.; Lazaro, J.; Muturi, M.; Dechmann, D. K. N.: Metabolic rate in common shrews is unaffected by temperature, leading to lower energetic costs through seasonal size reduction. Royal Society Open Science 7 (4), 191989 (2020)

Hulsey, C. D.; Machado-Schiaffino, G.; Keicher, L.; Ellis-Soto, D.; Henning, F.; Meyer, A.: The integrated genomic architecture and evolution of dental divergence in East African cichlid fishes (Haplochromis chilotes x H. nyererei). G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics 7 (9), pp. 3195 - 3202 (2017)

Keicher, L.; O'Mara, M. T.; Voigt, C. C.; Dechmann, D. K. N.: Stable carbon isotopes in breath reveal fast incorporation rates and seasonally variable but rapid fat turnover in the common shrew (Sorex araneus). The Journal of Experimental Biology 220 (15), pp. 2834 - 2841 (2017)

LaPoint, S. D.; Keicher, L.; Wikelski, M.; Zub, K.; Dechmann, D. K. N.: Growth overshoot and seasonal size changes in the skulls of two weasel species. Royal Society Open Science 4 (1), 160947 (2017)