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The accelerating influence of humans on mammalian macroecological patterns over the late Quaternary [PDF]

, 2019
The transition of hominins to a largely meat-based diet ~1.8 million years ago led to the exploitation of other mammals for food and resources. As hominins, particularly archaic and modern humans, became increasingly abundant and dispersed across the ...
Elliott Smith, Rosemary E., Lyons, S. Kathleen, Payne, Jonathan L., Smith, Felisa A., Villaseñor, Amelia   +4 more
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Most mammals do not wander: few species escape continental endemism

Ecography, Volume 2025, Issue 10, October 2025.
Terrestrial mammals are found nearly everywhere on Earth. Yet, most taxa are endemic to a single continent; geological, evolutionary, ecological, or physiological filters constrain geographic distributions. Here, we synthesize data on geography, taxonomy, lineage age, dispersal, body size, and diet for > 4000 terrestrial mammals prior to detectable ...
Meghan A. Balk, Melissa I. Pardi, Catalina P. Tomé, Rasmus Ø. Pedersen, John M. Grady, S. Kathleen Lyons, Larisa E. Harding, Marie L. Westover, Katlin Schroeder, James H. Brown, Felisa A. Smith   +10 more
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Molecular Epidemiology and Genetic Diversity of Orientia tsutsugamushi From Patients and Small Mammals in Xiangyun County, Yunnan Province, China

Veterinary Medicine and Science, Volume 11, Issue 5, September 2025.
Scrub typhus is caused by Orientia tsutsugamushi (OT). In this study, the detection rates of OT in patients and small mammals were 28.13% (18/64) and 13.98% (13/93), respectively. Nine full‐length 56‐kDa TSA genes were identified, comprising four distinct genotypes: Karp‐like (n = 3), Kato‐like (n = 3), Gilliam (n = 2), and TA763 (n = 1). Recombination
Li Chen, Yi‐Chen Kong, Jia‐Wei Tian, Pei‐Yu Han, Song Wu, Chen‐Jie He, Ti‐Lian Ren, Bo Wang, Lian Qin, Yun‐Zhi Zhang   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

A genomic approach to examine the complex evolution of laurasiatherian mammals [PDF]

, 2011
Recent phylogenomic studies have failed to conclusively resolve certain branches of the placental mammalian tree, despite the evolutionary analysis of genomic data from 32 species.
Hallström, Björn M., Janke, Axel, Schneider, Adrian, Zoller, Stefan   +3 more
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Spruce monocultures of the Drahanská vrchovina Upland (Czech Republic) as the biotope of small terrestrial mammals (Rodentia, Soricomorpha)

Acta Universitatis Agriculturae et Silviculturae Mendelianae Brunensis, 2010
The community of small terrestrial mammals of spruce monocultures of the Drahanská vrchovina Upland was studied on small experimental plots, namely in spruce plantations aged 30 and 105 years and on comparative plots in a 40-year beech stand and in a 125-
Josef Suchomel, Luboš Purchart, Jakub Urban   +2 more
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Effectiveness of temporal matching in ecological niche models: Insights for a low‐dispersing species

Ecosphere, Volume 16, Issue 8, August 2025.
Abstract Ecological niche models, crucial for estimating the potential distribution of species under global change, can face reduced accuracy when the timing of occurrence data does not align with the environmental data. One solution is to ensure a close temporal match between the environment and the observation date.
Gonzalo E. Pinilla‐Buitrago
wiley   +1 more source

Leucismo en la musaraña de orejas cortas Cryptotis mexicana (Mammalia: Soricomorpha), endémica de México

Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad, 2011
El leucismo es la reducción de la pigmentación parcial o total del pelaje, pero que mantiene la coloración normal de los ojos y la piel. Aquí se presenta el registro de un individuo de la musaraña endémica de México Cryptotis mexicana que presenta esta ...
Lázaro Guevara, Héctor E. Ramírez-Chaves, Fernando A. Cervantes   +2 more
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Evolutionary insights from a genetically divergent hantavirus harbored by the European common mole (Talpa europaea). [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2009
BACKGROUND:The discovery of genetically distinct hantaviruses in shrews (Order Soricomorpha, Family Soricidae) from widely separated geographic regions challenges the hypothesis that rodents (Order Rodentia, Family Muridae and Cricetidae) are the ...
Hae Ji Kang, Shannon N Bennett, Laarni Sumibcay, Satoru Arai, Andrew G Hope, Gabor Mocz, Jin-Won Song, Joseph A Cook, Richard Yanagihara   +8 more
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Micromammalian faunas from the middle miocene (middle Aragonian) of the Tudela formation (Ebro Basin, Spain) [PDF]

, 2016
Two new fossil micromammal localities of Middle Miocene age (Pico del Fraile 2, PF2 and Sancho Abarca 5, SA5) from the Tudela Formation (northeastern Ebro Basin) are described. PF2 contains rodents and insectivores of Aragonian age (local zone Dc).
Freudenthal, M., Furió Bruno, Marc, Garcés Crespo, Miguel, González-Pardos, M., Larrasoaña, J.C., Murelaga, X., Ruiz-Sánchez, F. J., Suárez-Hernando, O.   +7 more
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Idiosyncratic spatial scaling of biodiversity–disease relationships

Ecography, Volume 2025, Issue 5, May 2025.
High host biodiversity is hypothesized to dilute the risk of vector‐borne diseases if many host species are ‘dead ends' that cannot effectively transmit the disease and low‐diversity areas tend to be dominated by competent host species. However, many studies on biodiversity–disease relationships characterize host biodiversity at single, local spatial ...
Neil A. Gilbert, Graziella V. DiRenzo, Elise F. Zipkin   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source