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Bloodlines: mammals, leeches, and conservation in southern Asia [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Southern Asia is a biodiversity hotspot both for terrestrial mammals and for leeches. Many small-mammal groups are under-studied in this region, while other mammals are of known conservation concern. In addition to standard methods for surveying mammals,
Bhatai M. L.   +16 more
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Ecological selectivity and the evolution of mammalian substrate preference across the K–Pg boundary

open access: yesEcology and Evolution, 2021
The Cretaceous–Paleogene (K–Pg) mass extinction 66 million years ago was characterized by a worldwide ecological catastrophe and rapid species turnover. Large‐scale devastation of forested environments resulting from the Chicxulub asteroid impact likely ...
Jonathan J. Hughes   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Assessment of available anatomical characters for linking living mammals to fossil taxa in phylogenetic analyses [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
ORCID: 0000-0003-4919-8655© 2016 The Authors. Published by the Royal Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, which permits unrestricted use, provided the original author and ...
Natalie Cooper   +3 more
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Morphological distinctiveness of JavanTupaia hypochrysa(Scandentia, Tupaiidae) [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Mammalogy, 2013
The common treeshrew, Tupaia glis, represents a species complex with a complicated taxonomic history. It is distributed mostly south of the Isthmus of Kra on the Malay Peninsula and surrounding islands. In our recent revision of a portion of this species complex, we did not fully assess the population from Java (T.
Eric J. Sargis   +4 more
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Occurrence of the Madras Tree Shrew Anathana ellioti (Waterhouse) (Scandentia: Tupaiidae) in the Biligirirangan Hills, Karnataka, India

open access: yesJournal of Threatened Taxa, 2009
The Madras Tree Shrew Anathana ellioti (Waterhouse 1850) is a small mammal belonging to the order Scandentia, and is endemic to peninsular India. It inhabits deciduous forests and has till date not been reported from the Biligiriranga Swamy Temple ...
U. Srinivasan   +9 more
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Early development of the nervous system of the eutherian Tupaia belangeri [PDF]

open access: yesPrimate Biology, 2015
The longstanding debate on the taxonomic status of Tupaia belangeri (Tupaiidae, Scandentia, Mammalia) has persisted in times of molecular biology and genetics.
W. Knabe, S. Washausen
doaj   +1 more source

Anatomy of the Nasal and Auditory Regions of the Fossil Lagomorph Palaeolagus haydeni: Systematic and Evolutionary Implications

open access: yesFrontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2021
Palaeolagus, a late Eocene to early Miocene North American lagomorph genus, represented by numerous and well-preserved specimens, has been long considered a basal leporid, although it is currently understood as a stem lagomorph.
Irina Ruf   +4 more
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Trois espèces nouvelles du genre Medwayella Traub, 1972 (Insecta : Siphonaptera : Pygiopsyllidae) de Sabah (Malaisie Orientale, Île de Bornéo)

open access: yesParasite, 2004
Medwayella traubiana n. sp., M. pfeifferi n. sp. et M. sabahae n. sp. (Pygiopsyllidae) sont décrites de Sabah (nord de l'île de Bornéo); les deux premières sur Tupaia tana (Scandentia), la troisième sur Sundasciurus lowii (Rodentia).
Beaucournu J.C., Wells K.
doaj   +1 more source

Molecular investigation of non-volant endemic mammals through mitochondrial cytochrome b gene from Andaman and Nicobar archipelago

open access: yesMitochondrial DNA. Part B. Resources, 2020
The shrews, Crocidura andamanensis, Crocidura nicobarica (order Eulipotyphla), and treeshrew, Tupaia nicobarica, (order Scandentia) are highly threatened mammals; endemic to Andaman and Nicobar archipelago.
Shantanu Kundu   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

The evolutionary history of HSA7/16 synteny in vertebrates: a critical interpretation of comparative cytogenetic and genome sequence data [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
The current work is an in silico study of data from previous publications and genome browsers, on the origin of the human synteny HSA7a/16p. The molecular composition of the chromosomal segments identified as HSA7a/16 and 7b (free or differently ...
PICONE, Barbara, SINEO, Luca
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