We combined new sequence data for more than 300 muroid rodent species with our
previously published sequences for up to five nuclear and one mitochondrial genes to …

Abstract The Korean Peninsula and its associated Pacific islands have a distinctive, yet
poorly studied mammalian fauna. Korea was a land of invasions and wars for many …

Humans stand out among the apes by having both an extremely large brain and a relatively
high reproductive output, which has been proposed to be a consequence of cooperative …

Arvicolinae is one of the most impressive placental radiations with over 150 extant and
numerous extinct species that emerged since the Miocene in the Northern Hemisphere. The …

Sperm competition favors increases in relative testes mass and production efficiency, and
changes in sperm phenotype that result in faster swimming speeds. However, little is known …

Therian mammals have an extremely conserved XX/XY sex determination system. A limited
number of mammal species have, however, evolved to escape convention and present …

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 …

It has been hypothesized that most morphological evolution occurs by allometric
differentiation. Because rodents encapsulate a phenomenal amount of taxonomic diversity …

In response to environmental changes in the Northern hemisphere, several lines of
brachyodont-bunodont cricetid rodents evolved during the Late Miocene as “microtoid …

Phylogenetic analysis of the supraspecies relationships was carried out using partial
sequences of two nuclear genes in the subfamily Arvicolinae, which is one of the youngest …