The Quaternary cold periods in Europe are thought to have heavily influenced the amount
and distribution of intraspecific genetic variation in both animals and plants. The …

Landscape genetics is a new discipline that aims to provide information on how landscape
and environmental features influence population genetic structure. The first key step of …

The effects of tropical forest fragmentation on frugivorous and nectarivorous bats were studied
on recent islands created by the flooding of a dam in French Guiana. Study sites include …

Introduction Ticks are the most common arthropod vectors of both human and animal
diseases in Europe, and the Ixodes ricinus tick species is able to transmit a large number of …

Background Rodents are recognized as hosts for at least 60 zoonotic diseases and may
represent a serious threat for human health. In the context of global environmental changes and …

Background High-throughput sequencing technologies offer new perspectives for
biomedical, agronomical and evolutionary research. Promising progresses now concern the …

We sequenced 998 base pairs (bp) of mitochondrial DNA cytochrome b and 799bp of nuclear
gene BRCA1 in the Lesser white-toothed shrew (Crocidura suaveolens group) over its …

We used mitochondrial cyt b sequences to investigate the phylogenetic relationships of
Crocidura russula (sensu lato) populations across the Strait of Gibraltar, western Europe, …

Species richness is a state variable of some interest in monitoring programmes but raw
species counts are often biased due to imperfect species detectability. Therefore, monitoring …

"Protocols for field and laboratory rodent studies" present the best practices for the studies of
rodents and rodent-borne pathogens and parasites from the field to the laboratory. It aims at …