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Conservation challenges and opportunities for native apple (Malus) species in Canada
PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, Volume 8, Issue 1, Page 134-156, January 2026.Apple, one of the world's most widely cultivated and economically important fruit crops, has two wild relatives native to Canada. In this review, we describe the importance of these native apple species to Indigenous heritage and the current threats the species faces due to pests, diseases, and habitat loss.
Terrell T. Roulston +13 more
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Diversidad y taxonomía de roedores de Nicaragua
La Calera, 2016 Los roedores constituyen el grupo más diverso de los mamíferos a nivel mundial. Se dispone de suficiente información de muchas de las especies de este grupo, sin embargo, a nivel local puede carecerse de información mínima de algunas especies. En el caso
Javier Monge
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Cicada as a food for mammals: a global review and implications for mammal behaviour and populations
Wildlife Biology, Volume 2026, Issue 1, January 2026.Cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) are among the most important insect prey for many vertebrate predators, including birds and mammals, owing to their large size and high nutritional value. Although the ecological roles of cicadas as prey for birds have been well documented, the interactions between mammals and cicadas are relatively unknown.
Kanzi M. Tomita
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Integrative Zoology, Volume 21, Issue 1, Page 137-150, January 2026.This study identifies Polychromophilus sp. in blood‐feeding flies (Basilia speiseri and Basilia lindolphoi) from Myotis nigricans bats in Brazil, marking the first molecular detection of the parasite in an insect vector in this country. Two haplotypes were identified, both within the Polychromophilus murinus group.
Bruno S. Mathias +7 more
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Are Hibernators Toast? Global Climate Change and Prolonged Seasonal Hibernation
Global Change Biology, Volume 32, Issue 1, January 2026.This review examines how global climate change impacts mammalian hibernators, emphasizing physiological, ecological and phenological aspects. Many hibernating species already inhabit extreme environments, thus are at risk as climate variability intensifies.
Kathrin H. Dausmann +1 more
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Fossil caries in a Pliocene rodent with a plausible instance of in situ preservation of bacterial remains [PDF]
Acta Palaeontologica PolonicaAn interesting case of a caries-affected area where bacterial remains were plausibly preserved in situ was found in an isolated tooth of the Plio-Pleistocene dormouse Glis sackdillingensis (Rodentia, Gliridae).
MICHAŁ CZERNIELEWSKI +2 more
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Molecular Survey of Tularemia and Plague in Small Mammals From Iran
Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology, 2018 Introduction: Plague and tularemia are zoonoses and their causative bacteria are circulating in certain regions of Iran. This study was conducted to investigate potential disease reservoirs amongst small wildlife species in different regions of Iran ...
Ehsan Mostafavi +21 more
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Biomédica: revista del Instituto Nacional de Salud, 2016 Introducción. La enfermedad de Lyme es una zoonosis multisistémica causada por Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato. Esta espiroqueta circula en un ciclo enzoótico entre un reservorio vertebrado primario y las garrapatas.
Analilia Solís-Hernández +3 more
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Biomédica: revista del Instituto Nacional de Salud, 2007 Introducción. En Brasil, los capibaras (Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris) son importantes huéspedes para garrapatas del género Amblyomma, las cuales transmiten rickettsiosis a humanos y animales.
Richard C. Pacheco +5 more
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A new form of the mole vole Ellobius tancrei Blasius, 1884 (Mammalia, Rodentia) with the lowest chromosome number [PDF]
, 2013 Irina Bakloushinskaya +4 more
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