Located at the crossroad of the Palearctic, Saharo-Arabian, and Oriental zoogeographic
realms, and with its great environmental diversity, Iran harbors a high complexity and …

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 …

This comprehensive species-specific chapter covers all aspects of the mammalian biology,
including paleontology, physiology, genetics, reproduction and development, ecology …

Secondary contacts can play a major role in the evolutionary histories of species. Various
taxa diverge in allopatry and later on come into secondary contact during range expansions …

Background Flea-borne diseases have a wide distribution in the world. Studies on the
identity, abundance, distribution and seasonality of the potential vectors of pathogenic …

Aim There is an increasing evidence showing that species within various taxonomic groups
have reticulate evolutionary histories with several cases of introgression events …

In taxonomic accounts, three species of Myotis have been traditionally reported to occur on
the island of Taiwan: Watase's bat (M. formosus watasei Kishida), the Formosan broad …

A complete list of bat records available from Libya was compiled from literature and from
new records, based on field studies and examination of museum specimens. The record …

The Kuhl's pipistrelle (Pipistrellus kuhlii) is a Western Palaearctic species of bat that exhibits
several deeply divergent mitochondrial lineages across its range. These lineages could …

In Russia, Myotis nattereri was considered as a monotypic species, of which its range is
divided into two parts.. One of them is the northern fragment consisting of Central Russia …