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Great Gerbils (Rhombomys opimus) in Central Asia Are Spreading to Higher Latitudes and Altitudes [PDF]

Ecology and Evolution
The great gerbil (Rhombomys opimus) is a gregarious rodent in Central Asia and is one of the major pests found in desert forest and grassland areas. The distribution changes and migration routes of R.
Xuan Liu, Li Xu, Jianghua Zheng, Jun Lin, Xuan Li, Liang Liu, Ruikang Tian, Chen Mu   +7 more
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Detecting plague-host abundance from space: Using a spectral vegetation index to identify occupancy of great gerbil burrows. [PDF]

Int J Appl Earth Obs Geoinf, 2018
In Kazakhstan, plague outbreaks occur when its main host, the great gerbil, exceeds an abundance threshold. These live in family groups in burrows, which can be mapped using remote sensing. Occupancy (percentage of burrows occupied) is a good proxy for abundance and hence the possibility of an outbreak.
Wilschut LI, Heesterbeek JAP, Begon M, de Jong SM, Ageyev V, Laudisoit A, Addink EA.   +6 more
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Theileria, Hepatozoon and Taenia infection in great gerbils (Rhombomys opimus) in northwestern China

International Journal for Parasitology: Parasites and Wildlife, 2021
The great gerbil (Rhombomys opimus), widely distributed in Asia, is a natural reservoir for Yersinia pestis, Leishmania donovani and some species of helminths.
Na Ji, Xueling Chen, Gang Liu, Shanshan Zhao, Wenbo Tan, Guangyuan Liu, Jiangguo Zhang, Yuanzhi Wang   +7 more
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Dynamics of Yersinia pestis and its antibody response in great gerbils (Rhombomys opimus) by subcutaneous infection. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2012
BACKGROUND: Rhombomys opimus (great gerbil) is a reservoir of Yersinia pestis in the natural plague foci of Central Asia. Great gerbils are highly resistant to Y. pestis infection. The coevolution of great gerbils and Y.
Yujiang Zhang, Xiang Dai, Xinhui Wang, Abulimiti Maituohuti, Yujun Cui, Azhati Rehemu, Qiguo Wang, Weiwei Meng, Tao Luo, Rong Guo, Bing Li, Abulikemu Abudurexiti, Yajun Song, Ruifu Yang, Hanli Cao   +14 more
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GENETIC COMPONENT OF GREAT GERBIL’S SUSCEPTIBILITY TO PLAGUE INFECTION

Acta Biomedica Scientifica, 2018
The susceptibility of the great gerbil to the causative agent of plague is genetically determined. However, there is not enough information  on the involved genes and their effect on this feature in the  literature. Although the sensitivity of gerbils to
V. V. Sutyagin, T. V. Meka-Mechenko, G. G. Kovaleva, A. T. Berdibekov   +3 more
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Genetic diversity and structure of the Great Gerbil,Rhombomys opimus, in Iran (Mammalia: Rodentia) [PDF]

Zoology in the Middle East, 2020
The Great Gerbil, Rhombomys opimus, is widely distributed in degraded and fragmented desert and semi-desert habitats of the Iranian Plateau. Recent habitat fragmentation from overgrazing by livestock and a government-sponsored rodent control programme ...
Mohsen Ahmadpour, Hossein Moradi, Hamid Reza Rezaei, Mohammad Ali Oshaghi, Paul Hapeman, Abasalt Hosseinzadeh Colagar   +5 more
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ENVIRONMENTAL, BIOLOGICAL AND GENETIC FEATURES OF CERTAIN POPULATIONS OF GREAT GERBIL (Rhombomys opius Licht., 1823) OF KAZAKHSTAN

THE BULLETIN, 2020
The main host of a number of especially dangerous zoonotic infections in the arid zones of Kazakhstan, covering an area of about 1.1 million km2, is the great gerbil (Rhombomys opimus).
Kawamoto Yoshi, Nurtazin Sabir, A. N. Shevtsov, Yerlan Ramankulov, Viktoriya Lutsay, Ruslan Salmurzauly, Margulan Iklassov, Talgarbay Konysbayev, Z.Z. Sayakova, Altyn Rysbekova, I. B. Utepova, Atshabar Bakhyt   +11 more
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GENETIC DRIFT AND GENE FLOW IN POPULATIONS OF THE GREAT GERBILS

Acta Biomedica Scientifica, 2018
The article describes the additional evolutionary factors, apart from natural selection, which can influence the genetic structure of the  populations of the main carriers of the plague microbe – the great  gerbil.
V. V. Sutyagin
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The genome of the plague-resistant great gerbil reveals species-specific duplication of an MHCII gene [PDF]

, 2018
The great gerbil (Rhombomys opimus) is a social rodent living in permanent, complex burrow systems distributed throughout Central Asia, where it serves as the main host of several important vector-borne infectious diseases and is defined as a key ...
Pernille Nilsson, Monica Hongrø Solbakken, Boris V. Schmid, Russell J. S. Orr, Ruichen Lv, Yujun Cui, Yajun Song, Yujiang Zhang, Nils Chr. Stenseth, Ruifu Yang, Kjetill S. Jakobsen, W. Ryan Easterday, Sissel Jentoft   +12 more
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Draft genome sequence of Yersinia pestis strain 2501, an isolate from the great gerbil plague focus in Xinjiang, China. [PDF]

J Bacteriol, 2012
Sun S, Yang X, Yuan Y, Dai X, Yan Y, Cao H, Luo T, Guo R, Wang X, Song Y, Yang R, Zhang Y, Cui Y.   +12 more
europepmc   +4 more sources