The long-distance movements made by humans through history are quickly erased by time
but can be reconstructed by studying the genetic make-up of organisms that travelled with …

Abstract The Indian Ocean has long been a forum for contact, trade and the transfer of
goods, technologies and ideas between geographically distant groups of people. Another …

The landscapes of Madagascar have long delighted zoologists, who have discovered, in
and among the island's baobab trees and thickets, a dizzying array of animals, including …

Analyses of phylogenetic topology and estimates of divergence timing have facilitated a
reconstruction of Madagascar's colonization events by vertebrate animals, but that …

This paper reports a new and well dated record of the Etruscan shrew (Suncus etruscus),
which is the smallest extant terrestrial mammal, and provides a comprehensive review of the …

Abstract Background The Caribbean offers a unique opportunity to study evolutionary
dynamics in insular mammals. However, the recent extinction of most Caribbean non-volant …

Until now, there was only serological evidence that hantaviruses were circulating in rodents
and infecting humans from Madagascar. To assess the presence of a hantavirus on the …

We here present a comprehensive integrative taxonomic review of the genus Hylomys,
using molecular (mitochondrial genomes and up to five nuclear loci) and morphological data …

Simple Summary The current study reassesses the systematic status of Suncus niger from its
original geographical distribution in Southern India. Both morphology and mitochondrial …

The number of shrew species in Israel has been and still is the subject of debate. In this work
we used for the first time a molecular marker, the cytochrome b gene, to investigate the …