Tropical Africa is home to an astonishing biodiversity occurring in a variety of ecosystems.
Past climatic change and geological events have impacted the evolution and diversification …

Understanding the age, origins and extinction of oceanic island biota has captivated the
interest of evolutionary biologists since Darwin and Wallace. Because oceanic islands are …

Geological and climatic processes potentially alter speciation rates by generating and
modifying barriers to dispersal. In Southeast Asia, two processes have substantially altered …

Abstract Aim The Eastern Afromontane Biodiversity Hotspot (EABH) offers an ideal location
to investigate the evolutionary mechanisms producing a high level of endemic biodiversity …

Repeated sea-level fluctuations during and prior to the Pleistocene had a dramatic effect on
the distribution of land and connection among islands between the Asian and Australian …

Background This study aims to reconstruct the evolutionary history of African shrews referred
to the Crocidura olivieri complex. We tested the respective role of forest retraction/expansion …

The evolutionary pressures leading to the appearance of the cecal appendix, its
evolutionary relationships with the cecum, and the link between these gastrointestinal …

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 …

Background Tanganya virus (TGNV), the only shrew-associated hantavirus reported to date
from sub-Saharan Africa, is harbored by the Therese's shrew (Crocidura theresae), and is …

We describe two new species of white-toothed shrews from south-western and central
Ethiopia, based on recent collections and an application of morphological and genetic …