Morimus funereus is a large longhorn beetle included in the European Habitats Directive
and in previous releases of the IUCN red list. It represents a flagship species of old-growth …

Cerambyx cerdo is a longhorn beetle widely distributed in southern and central Europe.
This saproxylic beetle is generally associated with oak forests where there are mature or …

A selective sweep is the result of strong positive selection driving newly occurring or standing
genetic variants to fixation, and can dramatically alter the pattern and distribution of allelic …

Assessing impacts of wild boar on ecosystems is a research priority worldwide, with applied
implications for environmental management. We evaluated whether rooting intensity by wild …

The West European house mouse, Mus musculus domesticus, is a particularly suitable model
to investigate the role of chromosomal rearrangements in reproductive isolation. In fact, it …

The mesic four‐striped grass rat Rhabdomys dilectus De Winton, 1897 is distributed in mesic
regions of southern and eastern Africa. We carried out a molecular and chromosomal study …

Chromosomal evolution is widely considered to be an important driver of speciation, as
karyotypic reorganization can bring about the establishment of reproductive barriers between …

Copyright Alessandro Campanaro et al. Rosalia alpina (Linnaeus, 1758) is a large longhorn
beetle (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) which is protected by the Habitats Directive and which …

Field identification of European wood mice Apodemus spp. is challenging due to their
morphological resemblance and frequent sympatry. We developed discriminant functions based …

The European stag beetle Lucanus cervus, widely distributed across Europe and in some
Near East countries, is one of the best known coleopteran species listed in the European …