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Far away from home? Ancient DNA shows the presence of bicolored shrew (Crocidura leucodon) in Bronze Age Denmark [PDF]

Ecology and Evolution
An excavation of an Early Iron Age village near Aalborg in Denmark uncovered the jaws and skull fragments from a small mammal that were morphologically identified to the genus Crocidura (white‐toothed shrews).
Mahsa Mousavi‐Derazmahalleh, Niels Haue, Marie Kanstrup, Jørgen T. Laursen, Sherralee S. Lukehurst, Jacob Kveiborg, Morten E. Allentoft   +6 more
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The bicolored white-toothed shrew Crocidura leucodon (HERMANN 1780) is an indigenous host of mammalian Borna disease virus. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2014
Borna disease (BD) is a sporadic neurologic disease of horses and sheep caused by mammalian Borna disease virus (BDV). Its unique epidemiological features include: limited occurrence in certain endemic regions of central Europe, yearly varying disease ...
Ralf Dürrwald, Jolanta Kolodziejek, Herbert Weissenböck, Norbert Nowotny   +3 more
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White-Toothed Shrews (Genus Crocidura): Potential Reservoirs for Zoonotic Leptospira spp. and Arthropod-Borne Pathogens? [PDF]

Pathogens, 2023
Three species of white-toothed shrews of the order Eulipotyphla are present in central Europe: the bicolored (Crocidura leucodon), greater (Crocidura russula) and lesser (Crocidura suaveolens) white-toothed shrews.
Viola Haring, Jens Jacob, Bernd Walther, Martin Trost, Michael Stubbe, Katja Mertens-Scholz, Falk Melzer, Nelly Scuda, Michaela Gentil, Wolfdieter Sixl, Tanja Schäfer, Michal Stanko, Ronny Wolf, Martin Pfeffer, Rainer G. Ulrich, Anna Obiegala   +15 more
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Shrew Communities in Mediterranean Agro-Ecosystems of Central Greece: Associations with Crop Types, Land Uses, and Soil Parameters [PDF]

Life, 2023
Shrew communities play a crucial role in a diverse range of natural, urban, and agricultural ecosystems. We used Barn owl diet analysis as the ideal proxy to assess small-mammal distribution patterns on large spatial scales. More than 10,000 pellets were
Vasileios Bontzorlos
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Lethal Borna disease virus 1 infections of humans and animals – in-depth molecular epidemiology and phylogeography [PDF]

Nature Communications
Borna disease virus 1 (BoDV-1) is the causative agent of Borna disease, a fatal neurologic disorder of domestic mammals and humans, resulting from spill-over infection from its natural reservoir host, the bicolored white-toothed shrew (Crocidura leucodon)
Arnt Ebinger, Pauline D. Santos, Florian Pfaff, Ralf Dürrwald, Jolanta Kolodziejek, Kore Schlottau, Viktoria Ruf, Friederike Liesche-Starnecker, Armin Ensser, Klaus Korn, Reiner Ulrich, Jenny Fürstenau, Kaspar Matiasek, Florian Hansmann, Torsten Seuberlich, Daniel Nobach, Matthias Müller, Antonie Neubauer-Juric, Marcel Suchowski, Markus Bauswein, Hans-Helmut Niller, Barbara Schmidt, Dennis Tappe, Daniel Cadar, Timo Homeier-Bachmann, Viola C. Haring, Kirsten Pörtner, Christina Frank, Lars Mundhenk, Bernd Hoffmann, Jochen Herms, Wolfgang Baumgärtner, Norbert Nowotny, Jürgen Schlegel, Rainer G. Ulrich, Martin Beer, Dennis Rubbenstroth   +36 more
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New World camelids are sentinels for the presence of Borna disease virus [PDF]

Transboundary and Emerging Diseases, Volume 69, Issue 2, Page 451-464, March 2022., 2021
Borna disease (BD), a frequently fatal neurologic disorder caused by Borna disease virus 1 (BoDV-1), has been observed for decades in horses, sheep, and other mammals in certain regions of Europe.
Cebra, Christopher, Dervas, Eva, Durrwald, Ralf, Gerspach, Christian, Hilbe, Monika, Kobera, Ralph, Kolodziejek, J., Malbon, Alexandra, Muluneh, Aemero, Nowotny, N., Paternoster, Giulia, Pohle, Dietrich, Steffen, Frank   +12 more
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Return of the walking dead: First verified record of the shrew Crocidura leucodon (Hermann, 1780) in Hamburg, Germany [PDF]

Evolutionary Systematics, 2021
The bicolored shrew Crocidura leucodon so far has not been reported in Hamburg with certainty. Some plausible historical records before 1920 are present; in turn, two more recent records are doubtful for different reasons.
Robert Klesser, Frederik Jessen, Jörgen Ringenberg, Matthias Preuß, Thomas Kaiser, Martin Husemann   +5 more
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Risk factors for Borna disease virus 1 encephalitis in Germany – a case–control study [PDF]

Emerging Microbes and Infections, 2023
In 2018, Borna Disease Virus 1 (BoDV-1) was confirmed as a human zoonotic pathogen causing rare but fatal encephalitis in Germany. While diagnostic procedures and the clinical picture have been described, epidemiology remains mysterious.
Kirsten Pörtner, Hendrik Wilking, Christina Frank, Merle M. Böhmer, Klaus Stark, Dennis Tappe   +5 more
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Strategie predatorie di <em>Crocidura leucodon</em> (Hermann, 1780) in condizioni controllate: dati preliminari

Hystrix, the Italian Journal of Mammalogy, 2003
Lo scopo principale di questo lavoro è stato quello di verificare, in condizioni controllate, il comportamento predatorio esibito da <em>Crocidura leucodon</em> (Hermann,1780) nei confronti di diverse specie di Artropodi, nonché la capacità ...
T. Bonacci, Gaetano Aloise, Mara Cagnin, Tullia Zetto   +3 more
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Is cranial anatomy indicative of fossoriality? A case study of the mammaliaform Hadrocodium wui. [PDF]

Anat Rec (Hoboken)
Abstract Determining the ecology of fossil species presents considerable challenges due to the often fragmentary preservation of specimens. The mammaliaform Hadrocodium wui from the Jurassic of China is known only from the cranium and mandible but may have had a fossorial lifestyle.
Tumelty M, Lautenschlager S.
europepmc   +2 more sources