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Historical shifts, geographic biases, and biological constraints shape mammal species discovery

Journal of Systematics and Evolution, EarlyView.
Taxonomic descriptions of mammals have become more robust from 1990 to 2025, with increased specimen sampling, broader comparisons, and more integrative methods. However, disparities remain: tropical and small‐bodied species are less comprehensively described, reflecting ongoing geographic and biological biases.
Matheus de T. Moroti, Jhonny J. M. Guedes, Guilherme M. Missio, Giovana L. Diegues, Alexandra M. R. Bezerra, Mario R. Moura   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

New distribution records of Elegant Water Shrew Nectogale elegans Milne-Edwards, 1870 (Mammalia: Eulipotyphla: Soricidae) from the western Himalaya, Uttarakhand, India

Journal of Threatened Taxa, 2017
Of the 13 known species of water shrews in the world, two water shrews are known from India, the Elegant Water Shrew Nectogale elegans and Himalayan Water Shrew Chimmarogale himalayica.
Aashna Sharma, Vandana Rajput, Vineet K. Dubey, Aavika Dhanda, Shagun Thakur, J. A. Johnson, S. Sathyakumar, K. Sivakumar   +7 more
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Some insectivore (Mammalia) remains from the Late Miocene locality of Alsótelekes (Hungary) [PDF]

, 1999
Six Insectivora species (Plesiosorex sp., Florinia ef. stehlini, Allosorex ef. stenodus, Crusafontina endemica, Miosorex sp., Soricinae gen. et sp.) were found in the Alsótelekes Late Miocene fossil material.
Mészáros, L. Gy.
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From Everyman to Hamlet: A Distant Reading

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract The sixteenth century sees English drama move from Everyman to Hamlet: from religious to secular subject matter and from personified abstractions to characters bearing proper names. Most modern scholarship has explained this transformation in terms originating in the work of Jacob Burckhardt: concern with religion and a taste for ...
Vladimir Brljak
wiley   +1 more source

Fifty years of data show the effects of climate on overall skull size and the extent of seasonal reversible skull size changes (Dehnel's phenomenon) in the common shrew

Ecology and Evolution, 2022
Global climate change affects many aspects of biology and has been shown to cause body size changes in animals. However, suitable datasets allowing the analysis of long‐term relationships between body size, climate, and its effects are rare.
Jan R. E. Taylor, Marion Muturi, Javier Lázaro, Karol Zub, Dina K. N. Dechmann   +4 more
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Palaeogeography and environment of the Late Miocene Soricidae (Mammalia) faunae of the Pannonian Basin [PDF]

, 2000
The article presents the palaeobiogeographical and palaeoecological results of the examinations of eleven Vallesian and Turolian shrew faunae found in the Pannonian Basin.
Mészáros, L. Gy.
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Variations in Ixodes ricinus Density and Borrelia Infections Associated with Cattle Introduced into a Woodland in The Netherlands [PDF]

, 2008
The effect of introduced large herbivores on the abundance of Ixodes ricinus ticks and their Borrelia infections was studied in a natural woodland in The Netherlands. Oak and pine plots, either ungrazed or grazed by cattle, were selected.
Gassner, F., Verbaarschot, P.G.H., Smallegange, R.C., Spitzen, J., Wieren, S.E., van, Takken, W.   +5 more
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Artificial Irrigation Impacts the Seasonal Occurrence of Pathogenic Leptospira in Its Wild Reservoirs in a Mediterranean Environment

Zoonoses and Public Health, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Human activities play a significant role in the emergence of infectious diseases. We aimed to test whether artificial irrigation affects the occurrence of a zoonotic bacteria sensitive to desiccation, pathogenic Leptospira species (pathoLep), in micromammals inhabiting Mediterranean ecosystems.
Cristina Ruiz, Ruth Rodríguez‐Pastor, Cristina Escolar, Henar Alonso, Javier Millán   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

The bicolored white-toothed shrew Crocidura leucodon (HERMANN 1780) is an indigenous host of mammalian Borna disease virus.

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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Relative enlargement of the medial preoptic nucleus in the Etruscan shrew, the smallest torpid mammal

Scientific Reports, 2022
Endothermy is a key feature of mammalian biology and enables mammals to maintain stable body temperature and homeostatic functions in the face of a rapidly changing environment.
Senmiao Sun, Michael Brecht
doaj   +1 more source