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Karyotype Evolution of Shrew Moles (Soricomorpha: Talpidae) [PDF]

Journal of Mammalogy, 2008
The Chinese long-tailed mole (Scaptonyx fusicaudus) closely resembles American (Neurotrichus gibbsii) and Japanese (Dymecodon pilirostris and Urotrichus talpoides) shrew moles in size, appearance, and ecological habits, yet it has traditionally been classified either together with (viz subfamily Urotrichinae) or separately (tribe Scaptonychini) from ...
Shin-ichiro Kawada, Song Li, Ying-xiang Wang, Orin B. Mock, Sen-ichi Oda, Kevin L. Campbell   +5 more
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Shape variation in the mole dentary (Talpidae: Mammalia) [PDF]

Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2008
The clade Talpidae consists of specialized fossorial forms, shrew-like moles and semi-aquatic desmans. As with all higher jawed vertebrates, different functional, phylogenetic and developmental constraints act on different parts of dentary influencing its shape.
EUGENIE BARROW, NORMAN MACLEOD
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Feeding habits and multifunctional classification of soil‐associated consumers from protists to vertebrates

Biological Reviews, Volume 97, Issue 3, Page 1057-1117, June 2022., 2022
ABSTRACT Soil organisms drive major ecosystem functions by mineralising carbon and releasing nutrients during decomposition processes, which supports plant growth, aboveground biodiversity and, ultimately, human nutrition. Soil ecologists often operate with functional groups to infer the effects of individual taxa on ecosystem functions and services ...
Anton M. Potapov, Frédéric Beaulieu, Klaus Birkhofer, Sarah L. Bluhm, Maxim I. Degtyarev, Miloslav Devetter, Anton A. Goncharov, Konstantin B. Gongalsky, Bernhard Klarner, Daniil I. Korobushkin, Dana F. Liebke, Mark Maraun, Rory J. Mc Donnell, Melanie M. Pollierer, Ina Schaefer, Julia Shrubovych, Irina I. Semenyuk, Alberto Sendra, Jiri Tuma, Michala Tůmová, Anna B. Vassilieva, Ting‐Wen Chen, Stefan Geisen, Olaf Schmidt, Alexei V. Tiunov, Stefan Scheu   +25 more
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Effect of Land-Use on Hantavirus Infection Among Introduced and Endemic Small Mammals of Madagascar. [PDF]

Ecol Evol
Addressing the risk of Hantavirus spillover from animal reservoirs to humans requires identifying the local reservoirs and the predictors of infection. We screened a collection of 1880 small mammals for Hantavirus RNA from northeastern Madagascar, and specifically investigated the influence of diverse natural or anthropized habitats as well as animal ...
Dubrulle J, Kauffman K, Soarimalala V, Randriamoria T, Goodman SM, Herrera J, Nunn C, Tortosa P.   +7 more
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Evolution of oligo-miocene Talpids (Mammalia, Talpidae) in europe: focus on the genera Myxomygale and Percymygale n. gen. [PDF]

, 2017
New material recovered in the Oligocene locality St-Martin-de-Castillon (Vaucluse, France; MP24) provides a better knowledge of the characteristics of the species vauclusensis in its type-locality, hitherto assigned to the genus Myxomygale (Talpinae ...
Hugueney, Marguerite, Maridet, Olivier
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Ectoparasites and Other Arthropod Associates of the Hairy-tailed Mole, \u3ci\u3eParascalops Breweri\u3c/i\u3e [PDF]

, 2017
A total of 33 taxa of ectoparasites and other associates was taken on seven individuals of the Hairy-tailed Mole, Parascalops breweri, from New York and New England.
French, Thomas W, Whitaker, John O, Jr
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Habitat conditions of Desmana moschata (Talpidae, Eulipotyphla, Mammalia) in the buffer zone of the Prisurskiy State Nature Reserve (Russia)

Nature Conservation Research: Заповедная наука, 2020
The study of bathymetry, macrozoobenthos abundance and the Russian desman population has been performed in the water bodies located in the Prisurskiy State Nature Reserve buffer zone (River Sura lower reaches floodplain).
Marina V. Rutovskaya, Alexander N. Aleksandrov, Valentina N. Podshivalina, Alena S. Soboleva, Oleg V. Glushenkov   +4 more
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Evolutionary history of the Nesophontidae, the last unplaced Recent mammal family [PDF]

, 2016
The mammalian evolutionary tree has lost several major clades through recent human-caused extinctions. This process of historical biodiversity loss has particularly affected tropical island regions such as the Caribbean, an area of great evolutionary ...
Barnes, I, Brace, S, Burger, J, Dalén, L, MacPhee, RDE, Thomas, JA, Turvey, ST   +6 more
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Transcriptional heterochrony in talpid mole autopods

EvoDevo, 2012
Background Talpid moles show many specializations in their adult skeleton linked to fossoriality, including enlarged hands when compared to the feet.
Bickelmann Constanze, Mitgutsch Christian, Richardson Michael K, Jiménez Rafael, de Bakker Merijn AG, Sánchez-Villagra Marcelo R   +5 more
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The Gelasian (Late Villanyan-MN17) diversified micromammal assemblage with Mimomys pliocaenicus from Coste San Giacomo (Anagni basin, central Italy), taxonomy and comparison with selected european sites [PDF]

, 2015
The Gelasian site of Coste San Giacomo (CSG) (central Italy) provides a unique opportunity to investigate the faunal and environmental changes occurred in Mediterranean Europe during the Early Pleistocene. The finding of both large and small mammal fauna
Bellucci, Luca, Bona, F., Sardella, Raffaele   +2 more
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