The silvery mole-rat (Heliophobius argenteocinereus) is a solitary subterranean rodent with
its distribution centred mainly in miombo woodlands of eastern Africa. This part of the …

African mole‐rats are subterranean Hystricomorph rodents, distributed widely throughout
sub‐Saharan Africa, and displaying a range of social and reproductive strategies from …

Abstract Background Within the subfamily Murinae, African murines represent 25% of
species biodiversity, making this group ideal for detailed studies of the patterns and timing of …

The naked mole‐rat (Heterocephalus glaber) is used as an animal model in various studies,
but not much is known on the genetic diversity of this animal. Here, on the basis of dataset …

Objectives Incomplete and/or biased sampling either on a taxonomic or geographic level
can lead to delusive phylogenetic and phylogeographic inferences. However, a complete …

The African continent was subjected to periodic climatic shifts during the Pliocene and
Pleistocene. These habitat changes greatly affected the evolutionary processes and tempo …

Greater bushbabies, strepsirrhine primates, that are distributed across central, eastern and
southern Africa, with northern and eastern South Africa representing the species' most …

Background Intraspecific variation within the diverse southern African murine rodents has
not been extensively investigated, yet cryptic diversity is evident in several taxa studied to …

African mole-rats (Bathyergidae) are an intensively studied family of subterranean rodents
including three highly social and three solitary genera. Although their phylogenetic …

Despite its great diversity and biomedical importance, the rodent subfamily Murinae is poorly
resolved phylogenetically. We present the first cladistic analysis sampling multiple …