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Informatic application to characterise and identify small mammal species: Arvicolinae (Cricetidae, Rodentia, Mammalia) [PDF]

Ecology and Evolution
The classification of rodent species can be challenging due to high morphological similarities observed among them. This problem is further increased in palaeontological systematics, where classification is traditionally based on the molar morphology ...
M. P. Alfaro‐Ibáñez, E. Angel‐Beamonte, A. C. Domínguez‐García, G. Cuenca‐Bescós   +3 more
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The complete mitochondrial genome of Proedromys bedfordi Thomas 1911 (Arvicolinae, Rodentia) [PDF]

Mitochondrial DNA. Part B. Resources
The Duke of Bedford’s vole (Proedromys bedfordi Thomas 1911) is distributed only at the border areas of the Sichuan and Gansu Provinces, China. In this study, the first complete mitochondrial genome of P. bedfordi is generated and characterized.
Shiqing Wang, Chen Lin, Zhen Wang, Zhangwen Deng   +3 more
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Complete Mitochondrial Genome of Three Species of the Genus Microtus (Arvicolinae, Rodentia) [PDF]

Animals, 2020
The 65 species of the genus Microtus have unusual sex-related genetic features and a high rate of karyotype variation. However, only nine complete mitogenomes for these species are currently available.
Luz Lamelas, Gaël Aleix-Mata, Michail Rovatsos, Juan Alberto Marchal, Teresa Palomeque, Pedro Lorite, Antonio Sánchez   +6 more
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A mitochondrial genome phylogeny of voles and lemmings (Rodentia: Arvicolinae): Evolutionary and taxonomic implications. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2021
Arvicolinae is one of the most impressive placental radiations with over 150 extant and numerous extinct species that emerged since the Miocene in the Northern Hemisphere.
Natalia I Abramson, Semyon Yu Bodrov, Olga V Bondareva, Evgeny A Genelt-Yanovskiy, Tatyana V Petrova   +4 more
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A new perspective on the taxonomy and systematics of Arvicolinae (Gray, 1821) and a new time-calibrated phylogeny for the clade [PDF]

PeerJ
Background Arvicoline rodents are one of the most speciose and rapidly evolving mammalian lineages. Fossil arvicolines are also among the most common vertebrate fossils found in sites of Pliocene and Pleistocene age in Eurasia and North America. However,
Charles B. Withnell, Simon G. Scarpetta
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Resolving Rapid Radiation of Voles and Lemmings (Arvicolinae: Cricetinae, Rodentia) with QuaddRAD Sequencing and Transcriptome Analysis [PDF]

Diversity
Voles and lemmings (subfamily Arvicolinae) remain some of the most difficult groups for disentangling phylogenetic relations owing to recent and very fast explosive radiation.
Natalia Abramson, Elizaveta Skalon, Olga Bondareva, Semen Bodrov, Tatyana Petrova, Ivan Dvoyashov   +5 more
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Designers of Nature’s Subterranean Abodes: Insights into the Architecture and Utilization of Burrow Systems of Thomas’ Pine Vole, Microtus thomasi (Rodentia: Arvicolinae) [PDF]

Life, 2023
Microtus thomasi (Rodentia: Arvicolinae), a fossorial vole endemic to the SW Balkans, uses a variety of substrates but its underground behavior remains poorly understood. This study examines the architecture and utilization of M.
Eleni Rekouti, Pavlos Avramidis, Sinos Giokas, Stamatis Vougiouklakis, Sofia Spanou, George P. Mitsainas   +5 more
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Searching for signatures of positive selection in cytochrome b gene associated with subterranean lifestyle in fast-evolving arvicolines (Arvicolinae, Cricetidae, Rodentia) [PDF]

BMC Ecology and Evolution, 2021
Background Mitochondrial genes encode proteins involved in oxidative phosphorylation. Variations in lifestyle and ecological niche can be directly reflected in metabolic performance.
Olga V. Bondareva, Nadezhda A. Potapova, Kirill A. Konovalov, Tatyana V. Petrova, Natalia I. Abramson   +4 more
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Intraspecies multiple chromosomal variations including rare tandem fusion in the Russian Far Eastern endemic evoron vole Alexandromys evoronensis (Rodentia, Arvicolinae) [PDF]

Comparative Cytogenetics, 2021
The vole Alexandromys evoronensis (Kovalskaya et Sokolov, 1980) with its two chromosomal races, “Evoron” (2n = 38–41, NF = 54–59) and “Argi” (2n = 34, 36, 37, NF = 51–56) is the endemic vole found in the Russian Far East. For the “Argi” chromosomal race,
Irina V. Kartavtseva, Irina N. Sheremetyeva, Marina V. Pavlenko   +2 more
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The Karaman vole Microtus irani karamani is a new record for Iran (Arvicolinae; Microtus) [PDF]

Iranian Journal of Animal Biosystematics, 2014
We studied 1038 bp of cytochrome b gene for social voles from three localities in Iran. The new sequences were compared with the previous published data correspond to eight species of social voles.
Ahmad Mahmoudi, Jamshid Darvish, Mansour Aliabadian   +2 more
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