[HTML][HTML] Implications of population changes among the Arvicolinae (Rodentia, Mammalia) in El Mirón Cave (Cantabria, Spain) for the climate of the last c. 50,000 years

MP Alfaro-Ibáñez, G Cuenca-Bescós, P Bover… - Quaternary Science …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract The El Mirón Cave site in Spain has one of the most complete archaeological and
palaeontological records of the Late Pleistocene in the Iberian Peninsula, encompassing …

Ancient DNA of narrow-headed vole reveal common features of the Late Pleistocene population dynamics in cold-adapted small mammals

M Baca, D Popović… - … of the Royal …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The narrow-headed vole, collared lemming and common vole were the most abundant small
mammal species across the Eurasian Late Pleistocene steppe-tundra environment …

Phylogenomics reveals the evolution, biogeography, and diversification history of voles in the Hengduan Mountains

XY Wang, D Liang, XM Wang, MK Tang, Y Liu… - Communications …, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract The Hengduan Mountains (HDM) of China are a biodiversity hotspot whose
temperate flora and fauna are among the world's richest. However, the origin and evolution …

Late Cenozoic history and the role of Beringia in assembling a Holarctic cestode species complex

KE Galbreath, AA Makarikov, KC Bell… - Molecular Phylogenetics …, 2023 - Elsevier
The dynamic climate history that drove sea level fluctuation during past glacial periods
mediated the movement of organisms between Asia and North America via the Bering Land …

Signatures of adaptation in mitochondrial genomes of Palearctic subterranean voles (Arvicolinae, Rodentia)

O Bondareva, E Genelt-Yanovskiy, T Petrova, S Bodrov… - Genes, 2021 - mdpi.com
This study evaluates signatures of selection in the evolution of the mitochondrial DNA of
voles, subfamily Arvicolinae, during the colonization of subterranean environments. The …

How voles adapt to subterranean lifestyle: Insights from RNA-seq

O Bondareva, T Petrova, S Bodrov, M Gavrilo… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Life under the earth surface is highly challenging and associated with a number of
morphological, physiological and behavioral modifications. Subterranean niche protects …

Evaluation of the “Bottleneck” Effect in an Isolated Population of Microtus hartingi (Rodentia, Arvicolinae) from the Eastern Rhodopes (Bulgaria) by Methods of …

FN Golenishchev, TA Zorenko, TV Petrova, LL Voyta… - Diversity, 2022 - mdpi.com
An integrative analysis of an isolated population of Harting's vole (Microtus hartingi) from the
Eastern Rhodope Mountains (Bulgaria) was carried out by morphological and morphometric …

Reduced representation approaches produce similar results to whole genome sequencing for some common phylogeographic analyses

DJ Duckett, K Calder, J Sullivan, DC Tank… - Plos one, 2023 - journals.plos.org
When designing phylogeographic investigations researchers can choose to collect many
different types of molecular markers, including mitochondrial genes or genomes, SNPs from …

An advanced form of Microtus nivaloides Forsyth Major, 1902 (Arvicolinae, Rodentia) in the late Middle Pleistocene of West Siberia: facts and hypotheses

E Markova, A Borodin - Historical Biology, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Grey voles Microtus sensu lato represent one of the youngest and most successful
radiations of rodents in the Holarctic that gave rise to several genera and over 60 living …

Four-toed sengi (Petrodromus tetradactylus, Afrotheria, Mammalia) museomics reveals a crucial role of East African forests in macroscelidean diversification

J Hagemann, LV Nogales, M Hofreiter… - Zoological Journal of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Sengis (Macroscelidea) are members of the Afroinsectivora, a group of mammals belonging
to the supercohort Afrotheria. Sengis' low population densities and their distribution, which …