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Theriofauna of Site of Community Importance Poggi di Prata (Grosseto, Central Italy): terrestrial mammals and preliminary data on Chiroptera [PDF]
Check List, 2014 Information about mammal species richness is scarce from the site Poggi di Prata (Central Italy). We performed a three-year survey with camera traps and spotlight surveys. Data on road kills and owl pellets were also collected.
Emiliano Mori +4 more
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The complete mitogenome of Smith’s shrew (Chodsigoa smithii)
Mitochondrial DNA. Part B. Resources, 2019 The Smith’s shrew (Chodsigoa smithii) belongs to subfamily Soricinae, which is an endemic shrew to China. In this study, we obtained the complete mitochondrial genome of the C. smithii.
Yingting Pu +4 more
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New systematic insights about plio-pleistocene moles from poland [PDF]
, 2016 The generic attribution of the Plio-Pleistocene Polish moles ?Neurotrichus polonicus and ?Neurotrichus skoczeni has been questioned several times in the past.
Kotsakis, Tassos +2 more
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A Checklist of the Mammals of small Italian islands
Hystrix, the Italian Journal of Mammalogy, 2009 <strong>Abstract</strong> Present knowledge on mammals of small Italian islands consists mainly of episodic records. In this paper we collect all available information about the distribution of wild mammals on 47 small Italian islands. A
Francesco Angelici +2 more
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Brain volume of the newly-discovered species Rhynchocyon udzungwensis (Mammalia: Afrotheria: Macroscelidea): implications for encephalization in sengis. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 The Gray-faced Sengi (Rhynchocyon udzungwensis) is a newly-discovered species of sengi (elephant-shrew) and is the largest known extant representative of the order Macroscelidea. The discovery of R. udzungwensis provides an opportunity to investigate the
Jason A Kaufman +4 more
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Variación intraespecífica en Cryptotis aroensis (Mammalia, Soricomorpha, Soricidae) de Venezuela [PDF]
Therya, 2014 Introduction: In Venezuela, the genus Cryptotis Pomel 1848 is represented by four species: C . meridensis Thomas 1898, C . tamensis Woodman 2002, C . aroensis Quiroga-Carmona and Molinari 2012; and C . venezuelensis Quiroga-Carmona 2013 (Quiroga-Carmona and Molinari 2012; Quiroga-Carmona 2013). C . meridensis , and C .
Franger J. García +2 more
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Ecology and Evolution, Volume 10, Issue 14, Page 7377-7388, July 2020., 2020 We download and evaluate the whole genome of subterranean mammals, and study the mechanisms of adaptative evolution to underground stresses of subterranean mammals through comparative genomics. Abstract Life underground has provided remarkable examples of adaptive evolution in subterranean mammals; however, genome‐wide adaptive evolution to underground
Mengwan Jiang +10 more
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Patterns of selectivity in introductions of mammal species worldwide [PDF]
, 2017 Humans have an extremely long history of transporting and introducing mammal species outside their native geographic range. The characteristics of the species introduced (taxonomy, life-history, ecology, environment) can all influence which traits are ...
Blackburn, TM
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The Gashatan (late Paleocene) mammal fauna from Subeng, Inner Mongolia, China [PDF]
, 2008 The Paleocene–Eocene boundary is of particular importance for the evolution of mammals and the poorly known Asian mammal faunas from this period have received much attention.
Missiaen, Pieter, Smith, T.
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Journal of Quaternary Science, Volume 35, Issue 5, Page 634-649, July 2020., 2020 ABSTRACT In the present study, we performed gastropod analyses on loess–palaeosol sequences from northeast Armenia (Southern Caucasia) covering at least three glacial–interglacial cycles. The elaborated ecostratigraphy shows significant patterns of species composition related to the succession of pedocomplexes and loess, respectively.
Christiane Richter +8 more
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