The authenticity of food is currently a major issue for researchers, consumers, industries and
policy markers at all levels of the production process. Particularly in the meat industry …

Systematic relationships of cervids have been controversial for decades. Despite new input
from molecular systematics, consensus could only be partially reached. The initial, gross …

Large continuous rainforests are the main hope for sustaining the population of large‐
bodied vertebrates that cannot cope with fragmentation or unsustainable hunting. The …

The black rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis L.) is a critically endangered species historically
distributed across sub-Saharan Africa. Hunting and habitat disturbance have diminished …

The red brocket deer Mazama americana Erxleben, 1777 is considered a polyphyletic
complex of cryptic species with wide chromosomal divergence. Evidence indicates that the …

Neotropical deer species have broad geographic ranges in vulnerable Latin American
ecosystems. Habitat destruction and overhunting have limited deer species to a portion of …

Coprolites are among the faunal traces of the archaeological and paleontological fossil
record. This is the first study of multiple proxies in herbivore coprolites from the South …

Cervid phylogenetics has been puzzling researchers for over 150 years. In recent decades,
molecular systematics has provided new input for both the support and revision of the …

Understanding species coexistence requires information about how species interact and
partition their ecological niche. Niches of closely related species tend to be quite similar and …

We studied the taxonomy and biogeography of Mazama bricenii, a brocket deer classified as
Vulnerable by the IUCN, drawing on qualitative and quantitative morphology and sequences …