6th International Conference of Rodent Biology and Management and 16th Rodens et Spatium : Potsdam, Germany, 3-7 September 2018 ; Book of Abstracts

Content

• Predator – prey interaction in the boreal vole community – behavioral and survival game in the changing world

  p. 30

  Ylönen, Hannu

• Rat-free New Zealand 2050 – fantasy or reality?

  p. 31

  Ross, James G.; Murphy, Elaine C.; Pollard, Oscar; Bramley, Al

• 5 critical areas for rodent population biology

  p. 32

  Krebs, Charles J.

• The ecology of emerging tick-borne diseases in a changing world

  p. 33

  Ostfeld, Richard S.

• Responses to human-induced changes - ecological and genomic drivers of wildlife health

  p. 34

  Sommer, Simone

• Changing invaders: the evolution of alien rodents on islands

  p. 35

  van der Geer, Alexandra A.E.; Lomolino, Mark V.

• Body size and craniometry of the herb field mouse in the context of a geographical clines

  p. 36

  Balčiauskas, Linas; Amshokova, Albina; Balčiauskienė, Laima; Benedek, Ana Maria; Cichocki, Jan; Csanády, Alexander; de Mendonça, Philippe Gil; Nistreanu, Victoria

• Evolving teeth within a stable masticatory apparatus in Orkney mice

  p. 37

  Renaud, Sabrina; Ledevin, Ronan; Souquet, Louise; Rodrigues, Helder Gomes; Ginot, Samuel; Agret, Sylvie; Claude, Julien; Herrel, Anthony; Hautier, Lionel

• A morphometric mapping analysis of mice molar morphology

  p. 38

  Morita, Wataru; Morimoto, Naoki; Ohshima, Hayato; Jernvall, Jukka

• Functional morphology of the cochlea of the laminate-toothed rats (family: Muridae, subfamily: Otomyinae)

  p. 39

  Nengovhela, Aluwani; Taylor, Peter J.; Denys, Christiane; Braga, José

• Torpor in dwarf hamsters, Phodopus campbelli and Phodopus roborovskii: a comparative study

  p. 40

  Khrushchova, Anastasia M.; Vasilieva, Nina Yu.; Shekarova, Olga N.; Rogovin, Konstantin A.; Petrovski, Dmitry V.

• Seasonal features of humoral immune response to T-cell dependent antigen in palaearctic hamsters (Rodentia, Cricetinae)

  p. 41

  Kuznetsova, Ekaterina V.; Tikhonova, Natalia; Feoktistova, Natalia Yu

• Penial and bacular morphology of mammals - what it can reveal about their owner?

  p. 42

  Horáková, Sylvie; Robovský, Jan

• Body weight regulation in small rodents a matter between predation risk and starvation?

  p. 43

  Monarca, Rita I.; Mathias, Maria L.; Speakman, John R.

• Molecular evolutionary inferences of recent biological innovations in mice and rats

  p. 44

  Biswas, Sreyasi; Eishahat, Eslam; Kohn, Michael H.

• Individual movement: personality–dependent spatial ecology of freeranging bank voles

  p. 45

  Schirmer, Annika; Herde, Antje; Eccard, Jana A.; Dammhahn, Melanie

• The effect of animal personality on virus transmission in Mastomys natalensis

  p. 46

  Vanden Broecke, Bram; Mariën, Joachim; Sabuni, Christopher A.; Mnyone, Ladslaus L.; Massawe, Apia W.; Leirs, Herwig

• Movements and spatial overlapping of rodents in natural environment

  p. 47

  Gómez Villafañe, Isabel Elisa; Maroli, Malena; Crosignani, Belén; Vadell, María Victoria

• Personality drives interactions with wildlife detection devices, based on perceptions of risk and reward

  p. 48

  Johnstone, Kyla C.; McArthur, Clare; Banks, Peter B.

• Individual variation in cognitive styles affects foraging and anti-predatory strategies in a small mammal

  p. 49

  Mazza, Valeria; Jacob, Jens; Dammhahn, Melanie; Zaccaroni, Marco; Eccard, Jana A.

• Problem predators: can odour habituation reduce impacts of “rogue” rats on birds nests?

  p. 50

  Price, Catherine J.; Ellis, Annabel; Banks, Peter B.

• Domestic cats and dogs create a landscape of fear for pest rodents around rural homesteads

  p. 51

  Mahlaba, Themb'alilahlwa; Monadjem, Ara; McCleery, Robert; Belmain, Steven R.

• Behavior of Rattus rattus (Linnaeus, 1758) around self-resetting traps

  p. 52

  Gronwald, Markus; Russell, James C.

• Influence of predator and plant chemical cues in the exploratory behaviour of the house mouse

  p. 53

  Grau, Carlos; Pageat, Patrick

• Communicating fear: the role of alarm pheromones in a bank vole

  p. 54

  Haapakoski, Marko; Hardenbol, Alwin A.; Matson, Kevin D.; Sievert, Thorbjörn; Ylönen, Hannu

• Cooperation among female house mice (Mus musculus domesticus) – a case study on social selection

  p. 55

  König, Barbara

• Rats provide help based on their need of their partn

  p. 56

  Schneeberger, Karin; Röder, Gregory; Taborsky, Michael

• Sex and reproductive state discrimination – are they innate or learned? Dwarf hamster species as a model

  p. 57

  Vasilieva, Nina Yu.; Kolesnikova, Irina Yu.; Khrushchova, Anastasia M.

• Habitat characteristics and species interference influence space use and nest-site occupancy: implications for social variation in two rodent sister species

  p. 58

  Dufour, Claire M.-S.; Ganem, Guila; Pillay, Neville; Avenant, Nico L.

• Burrow system architecture and use by Thomas’ pine vole, Microtus thomasi (Rodentia: Arvicolinae)

  p. 59

  Rekouti, Eleni; Avramidis, Pavlos; Spanou, Sofia; Vougiouklakis, Stamatis; Giokas, Sinos; Mitsainas, George P.

• Formation of reproductive isolation in hamsters (Cricetinae) in allopatry

  p. 60

  Surov, Alexey V.; Feoktistova, Natalia Yu; Kropotkina, Maria V.; Potashnikova, Ekaterina V.; Gureeva, Anna V.; Kuznetsova, Ekaterina V.

• Oxytocin regulates aggressive behavior in nucleus accumbens in great longtailed hamsters

  p. 61

  Sun, Xiuping; Yan, Lixin; Zhang, Nan; Wang, Zuoxin; Song, Mingjing; Zhang, Zhibin

• Reducing rodent damage to rice in Cambodia through ecologically-based rodent management approaches tailored to local conditions

  p. 62

  Stuart, Alexander M.; Kong, Parameas; Then, Rathmuny; Flor, Rica Joy; Sathya, Khay

• Identification and potential uses of spatial patterns for predicting pest species outbreaks

  p. 63

  Roos, Deon; Saldaña, Constantino Caminero; Arroyo, Beatriz; Revilla, Francisco Javier Rojo; Lambin, Xavier

• Basic urban services as modifiers of rodent abundance in Brazilian urban slums

  p. 64

  Carvalho-Pereira, Ticiana; Khalil, Hussein; Zeppelini, Caio G.; Brito, Ricardo L.; Costa, Federico; Begon, Michael

• Bait attraction may not be the same as bait consumption

  p. 65

  Engman, Mattias

• Deter to protect: use of predator’s odor smell to deter granivorous rodents from consuming acorns

  p. 66

  Villalobos, Adrian; Schlyter, Fredrik; Birgersson, Göran; Olsson, Gert; Witzell, Johanna; Löf, Magnus

• Rodents on pig farms: infestation levels related to environmental factors and management practices

  p. 67

  Montes de Oca, Daniela P.; Lammel, Martín N.; Cavia, Regino

• The occupancy of barn owl in artificial nest boxes to control rice field rats in Yogyakarta Indonesia

  p. 68

  Sudarmaji; Herawati, Nur 'Aini

• Biological control of urban rats in the World Heritage town of Luang Prabang, northern Laos

  p. 69

  Jäkel, Thomas; Promkerd, Prasartthong; Sitthirath, Rasmy; Guedant, Pierre; Virathavone, Phongthep; Khoprasert, Yuvaluk

• The impact of rodent management on rice yield in lowland irrigated areas in Indonesia

  p. 70

  Herawati, Nur 'Aini; Sudarmaji

• Reducing impacts of rodents on the post-harvest value chain in rice-based cropping system in Myanmar

  p. 71

  Htwe, Nyo Me; Maw, Pyai Phyo; Singleton, Grant R.

• Adoption pathways of ecologically-based rodent management in Myanmar

  p. 72

  Htwe, Nyo Me; Maw, Pyai Phyo; Singleton, Grant R.

• Ecologically-based rodent management 20 years on - progress, challenges and where next

  p. 73

  Singleton, Grant R.; Stuart, Alexander E. M.; Brown, Peter R.; Jacob, Jens

• Integration of the landscape of fear of rodents in EBRM methodologies

  p. 74

  Krijger, Inge M.; Belmain, Steven R.; Singleton, Grant R.; Koerkamp, Peter W.G. Groot

• Rodent trapping grids are sustainable for long-term landscape suppression of invasive rat (Rattus rattus), but not mouse (Mus musculus), populations in Hawaii

  p. 75

  Shiels, Aaron B.; Aslan, Clare E.; Haines, William P.; Aue, Asa; Liang, Christina T.

• Ecology of rodent pests in lowland irrigated rice fields under alternate wetting and drying conditions

  p. 76

  Lorica, Ma. Renee; Singleton, Grant R.; Belmain, Steven R.

• Status of rodent pests in rice eco-systems in Sri Lanka

  p. 77

  Rampalage, Sarathchandra Siriwardana; Htwe, Nyo Me; Nugaliyadde, Lionel; Siril K. Hemachandra; Jayasinghe, Chathurika J.T.; Bandaranayake R. B., Malala Aloka Bandaralage

• Enabling effective rodent pest research in African smallholder farming systems

  p. 78

  Belmain, Steven R.; StopRats project colleagues; EcoRodMan project colleagues

• Effect of synthetic hormones on reproduction in Mastomys natalensis

  p. 79

  Massawe, Apia W.; Makundi, Rhodes H.; Zhang, Zhibin; Mhamphi, Ginethon; Ming, Liu; Hong-Jun, Li; Belmain, Steven R.

• An Africa Centre of Excellence for Innovative Rodent Pest Management and Biosensor Technology Development (ACE IRPM&BTD) in sub-Saharan Africa

  p. 80

  Makundi, Rhodes H.; Massawe, Apia W.

• Population dynamics and breeding patterns of Mastomys natalensis (Smith 1834) in three different agricultural practices

  p. 81

  Mulungu, Loth S.; Benny, Borremans; Mdangi, Mashaka E.; Massawe, Apia W.; Makundi, Rhodes H.; Lopa, Happiness; Mgode, Georgies F.; Leirs, Herwig; Belmain, Steven R.

• A large-scale experiment to evaluate the effects of trapping on muskrat (Ondatra zibethicus) population development in The Netherlands

  p. 82

  van Loon, E. Emiel; Bos, Daan; Ydenberg, Ron C.

• Aspects of good practice rodent control that affect exposure of non-target vertebrates to anticoagulant rodenticides

  p. 83

  Walther, Bernd; Behle, Sam Lucy; Ennen, Hendrik; Schenke, Detlef; Jacob, Jens

• Dynamic of the invasive rodent ranges in Russia: facts and forecast

  p. 84

  Khlyap, Liudmila A.; Petrosyan, Varos G.; Warshavskiy, Andrey A.

• The black rat (Rattus rattus) in Madagascar: threat to health and livelihoods

  p. 85

  Scobie, Kathryn; Rahelinirina, Soanandrasana; Rajerison, Minoarisoa; Olive, Marie-Marie; Héraud, Jean-Michel; Young, Juliette C.; Lambin, Xavier; Telfer, Sandra

• What the uninvited guests eat: dietary analysis of rodent pests present in the rural human dwellings of Pothwar, Pakistan

  p. 86

  Khanam, Surrya; Mushtaq, Muhammad

• Low frequency of warfarin resistance in Norway rats in China after 30 years usage of anticoagulant rodenticides

  p. 87

  Ma, Xiaohui; Wang, Dawei; Li, Ning; Liu, Lan; Tian, Lin; Luo, Chan; Cong, Lin; Feng, Zhiyong; Liu, Xiao-Hui; Song, Ying

• Comparative biological properties of the four stereoisomers of difethialone – a way to reduce the tissue persistence of difethialone

  p. 88

  Lattard, Virginie; Fourel, Isabelle; Chatron, Nolan; Lefebvre, Sébastien; Hascoët, Claire; Caruel, Hervé; Benoit, Etienne

• Management of rodent pests in pig farming in North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany

  p. 89

  Hecker, Odile; Boelhauve, Marc; Mergenthaler, Marcus

• Experimental evidence for the effects of muskrat control (Ondatra zibethicus) on abundance in The Netherlands

  p. 90

  Bos, Daan; Kentie, Rosemarie; LaHaye, Maurice; Ydenberg, Ron C.

• Colonization and speedy speciation of an island invasive

  p. 91

  Gabriel, Sofia I.; Searle, Jeremy B.; da Luz Mathias, Maria

• The chromosomal variability of lesser blind mole-rat populations (Nannospalax, Spalacinae, Rodentia) in Greece

  p. 92

  Assimakopoulos, Efthimios; Mitsainas, George P.

• Adaptive phylogeography of bank voles in Europe – what can the genome tell us?

  p. 93

  Strážnická, Michaela; Marková, Silvia; Searle, Jeremy B.; Kotlík, Petr

• Ecological divergence and species response to climate change: niche modelling in the bank vole

  p. 94

  Escalante, Marco A.; Strážnická, Michaela; Searle, Jeremy B.; Kotlík, Petr

• More insights in the evolution of edible dormouse from the old growth Hyrcanian forests

  p. 95

  Naderi, Morteza

• Ethiopian rodents - extremely diverse, endemic and endangered

  p. 96

  Bryja, Josef; Meheretu, Yonas; Šumbera, Radim; Mikula, Ondřej; Lavrenchenko, Leonid A.

• Biogeography of small mammals in south-western Angola: the first genetic evidence

  p. 97

  Krásová, Jarmila; Mikula, Ondřej; Bryja, Josef; Baptista, Ninda; Šumbera, Radim

• Comparative phylogeography of the Mongolian region based on its mammals

  p. 98

  Holicová, Tereza; Ansorge, Hermann; Lkhagvasure, Davaa; Robovský, Jan

• Genetic structure and origin of remnant red squirrel (Sciurus vulgaris L.) populations in the south of England

  p. 99

  Hardouin, Emilie

• Collagen fingerprinting of Late Pleistocene rodents

  p. 100

  Herman, Jeremy; Buckley, Michael; Gu, Muxin; Junno, Juho-Antti; Denys, Christiane; Chamberlain, Andrew

• Collagen fingerprinting of Late Pleistocene rodents

  p. 100

  Herman, Jeremy; Buckley, Michael; Gu, Muxin; Junno, Juho-Antti; Denys, Christiane; Chamberlain, Andrew

• Long-term dynamics of voles and lemmings in Finnish Lapland: importance of community approach

  p. 101

  Henttonen, Heikki

• Rainfall and changing population dynamics during a long-term CMR study of Mastomys natalensis in Tanzania

  p. 102

  Leirs, Herwig; Kirkpatrick, Lucinda; Mariën, Joachim; Sluydts, Vincent; Mulungu, Loth S.; Sabuni, Christopher A.; Massawe, Apia W.; Makundi, Rhodes H.

• Transient and seasonal drivers of population demography and virus transmission in rodents

  p. 103

  Kirkpatrick, Lucinda; Marien, Joachim; Leirs, Herwig

• Population cycles in a hibernating rodent

  p. 104

  Tkadlec, Emil; Losík, Jan

• Towards a metastability approach: outbreaks of mice in Australia

  p. 105

  Correa, Paola; Corcoran, Derek; Estay, Sergio; Brown, Peter R.; Lima, Mauricio

• Multi-scale density-dependent dispersal in spatially structured populations

  p. 106

  Lambin, Xavier; Sutherland, Chris; Elston, David

• Coupling agent-based with equation-based models to study spatially explicit megapopulation dynamics

  p. 107

  Giraudoux, Patrick; Marilleau, Nicolas; Lang, Christophe

• The Bruce effect revisited: is pregnancy termination in female rodents an adaptation to ensure breeding success after male turnover in low densities?

  p. 108

  Eccard, Jana A.; Dammhahn, Melanie; Ylönen, Hannu

• The long-haired rat (Rattus villosissimus): an ecosystem disrupter in arid Australia

  p. 109

  Pavey, Chris R.; Nano, Catherine E. M.

• The role of food availability in life history traits and population dynamics of the edible dormouse (Glis glis) in pine dominated forest

  p. 110

  Borowski, Zbigniew; Fyjałkowska, Kateryna; Tereba, Anna; Tadeusiak, Aleksandra

• Does anticipatory reproduction exist?

  p. 111

  Vekhnik, Victoria A.; Vekhnik, Vladimir P.

• Small mammals in montane forests: not where, but when?

  p. 112

  Benedek, Ana Maria; Sîrbu, Ioan

• Breeding versus survival: proximal causes of abrupt population decline under environmental change in a desert rodent

  p. 113

  Tchabovsky, Andrey; Savinetskaya, Ludmila; Surkova, Elena

• Habitat preferences and spatial distribution of lemmings in western Taimyr

  p. 114

  Popov, Igor Yu.

• The linkage between Melocanna bamboo flowering and rodent outbreaks: an empirical study from Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh

  p. 115

  Chakma, Nikhil; Sarker, Noor Jahan; Belmain, Steven R.; Sarker, Sohrab Uddin; Aplin, Ken; Kamal, Nazira Q.; Sarker, Sontosh Kumar; AID-Comilla

• Population dynamics and breeding patterns of multimammate rat (Mastomys natalensi, Smith 1832) in semi-arid areas in Tanzania

  p. 116

  Mlyashimbi, Emmanuel C.M.; Joackim, Marien; Tarimo, Akwilini J. P.; Kimaro, Didas N.; Isabirye, Moses; Machang'u, Robert S.; Mdangi, Mashaka E.; Makundi, Rhodes H.; Leirs, Herwig; Mulungu, Loth S.

• Effects of stream proximity on trails of Cuniculus paca: a 20 year survey

  p. 117

  Mora, Jose M.; Carrillo, Eduardo

• It’s a trap: effective methods for monitoring mouse populations in Australia

  p. 118

  Brown, Peter R.; Henry, Steve; Pech, Roger P.; Cruz, Jennyffer; Hinds, Lyn A.; Van de Weyer, Nikki; Caley, Peter

• Study on the evolutionary ecology of small herbivorous mammals: life history strategy of plateau pika (Ochotona curzoniae)

  p. 119

  Nie, Haiyan; Liu, Jike

• Review of hosts of Lassa virus in west Africa

  p. 120

  Fichet-Calvet, Elisabeth

• Phylogenetic analysis and prevalence of Lassa virus in multimammate mice within the highly endemic Edo-Ondo hotspot for Lassa fever, Nigeria

  p. 121

  Adesina, Adetunji; Oyeyiola, Akinlabi; Gunther, Stephan; Fichet-Calvet, Elisabeth; Olayemi, Ayodeji

• Manifold implications of host species diversity on parasite occurrence: a community perspective

  p. 122

  Hawlena, Hadas; Messika, Irit; Kedem, Hadar; Garrido, Mario; Halle, Snir; Dong, Qunfeng; Fuqua, Clay; Clay, Keith

• Bacterial parasite communities of the fossorial water vole Arvicola terrestris during a period of high abundance: richness and similarity in a dynamic world

  p. 123

  Villette, Petra; Afonso, Eve; Couval, Geoffroy; Levret, Aurélien; Cosson, Jean-François; Giraudoux, Patrick

• Parasites of urban rodents representing sanitary risk in La Plata city, Argentina: an example of the Latin American situation

  p. 124

  Fitte, Bruno

• Helminth communities in synanthropic rodents of Buenos Aires (Argentina)

  p. 125

  Hancke, Diego

• Towards understanding the role of small mammals in the transmission of Lyme disease in Virginia, USA

  p. 126

  Rose, Robert K.; Bitzer, Laura; Hynes, Wayne; Gaff, Holly D.; Nadolny, Robyn; Brinkerhoff, Jory

• Connecting the dots: linking Yersinia pestis seroprevalence in rodents and shepherd dogs to flea abundance in western China

  p. 127

  Yang, Kong; Qi, Teng; Liu, Wei; Li, Fan; Wang, Limao; Meerburg, Bastiaan G.

• Ecology of Puumala hantavirus in Europe

  p. 128

  Henttonen, Heikki; Voutilainen, Liina; Kallio, Eva; Niemimaa, Jukka; Sironen, Tarja; Vapalahti, Olli

• Review of leptospirosis carriage in rodents worldwide and identification of key host species and knowledge gaps in the Asian-Pacific region

  p. 129

  Sluydts, Vincent; Htwe, Nyo Me; Maw, Pyai Phyo; Siriwardana, Sarathchandra; Sudarmaji; Singleton, Grant R.; Jacob, Jens

• Leptospirosis in Madagascar: the epidemiology of multiple Leptospira species in diverse host communities

  p. 130

  Telfer, Sandra; Moseley, Mark; Rahelinirina, Soanandrasana; Soarimalala, Voahangy; Goodman, Steve; Piertney, Stuart; Rajerison, Minoarisoa

• Bornaviruses as “novel” zoonotic pathogen

  p. 131

• The role of rodents in tick-borne viral diseases with special emphasis on tickborne encephalitis

  p. 132

  Dobler, Gerhard

• Network “Rodent-borne pathogens”: looking into the rodent reservoirs

  p. 133

• Who is the reservoir of Monkeypox? Work in progress

  p. 134

  Laudisoit, Anne; Verheyen, Erik; Geearerts, Mare; Van Roy, Tosca; Baelo, Pascal; Gembu, Guy Crispin

• Optimal control model for rodent-borne leptospirosis in Salvador, Brazil

  p. 135

  Khalil, Hussein; Minter, Amanda; Costa, Federica; Begon, Michael

• Identification of potential endemic rodent hosts for zoonotic pathogens in South Africa using network analyses

  p. 136

  Fagir, Dina M.; Horak, Ivan G.; Ueckermann, Eddie A.; Lutermann, Heike

• An interdisciplinary approach to reduce leptospirosis in two slum communities in Salvador, Brazil

  p. 137

  Brito, Ricardo L.; Howell, Whitney A.; Lòpez, Yeimi A. A.; Khalil, Hussein; Zeppelini, Caio G.; Carvalho-Pereira, Ticiana; Begon, Michael; Costa, Federico

• Assessing the effect of native forest replacement by exotic plantations on Andes hantavirus infection in wild rodents from central Chile

  p. 138

  Rubio, André V.; Fredes, Fernando; Simonetti, Javier A.

• High disease transmission risk from occasionally synanthropic rodent reservoirs

  p. 139

  Ecke, Frauke; Han, Barbara A.; Hörnfeldt, Birger; Khalil, Hussein; Magnusson, Magnus; Singh, Navinder; Ostfeld, Richard S.

• Dynamics of Leptospira and Tula orthohantavirus in small mammals: impact of landscape and biodiversity

  p. 140

  Imholt, Christian; Jeske, Kathrin; Ulrich, Rainer; Jacob, Jens

• Temporal changes in rodent density and climatic factors as ecological drivers of tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) within a natural endemic foci

  p. 141

  Tagliapietra, Valentina; Rosà, Roberto; Manica, Mattia; Hauffe, Heidi H.C.; Arnoldi, Daniele; Rosso, Fausta; Rossi, Chiara; Henttonen, Heikki; Rizzoli, Annapaola

• New rodent species described since 2000; an age of discovery, comments and prospects

  p. 142

  D'Elia, Guillermo

• Molecular phylogeny and distribution of the most widespread African rodents, the multimammate mice genus Mastomys: a review

  p. 143

  Hánová, Alexandra; Konečný, Adam; Mikula, Ondřej; Lavrenchenko, Leonid A.; Martynov, Alex; Šumbera, Radim; Bryja, Josef

• Molecular evolution, hybridization and introgression affect molecular systematics of old world mice

  p. 144

  Eishahat, Eslam; Kohn, Michael H.

• Genetic structure and morphological evolution of the house mouse on the Orkney Archipelago

  p. 145

  Chevret, Pascale; Orkney field team; Ganem, Guila; Renaud, Sabrina

• Genetic differentiation and phylogeographic structure of the house mouse Mus musculus s.str. in the northern Palearctic

  p. 146

  Maltsev, Aleksey; Kotenkova, Elena; Bogdanov, Alexey S.; Stakheev, Valery; Bazhenov, Yriy

• Taxonomic structure and evolutionary history of mountain voles (Alticola, subgenus Aschizomys) in north-eastern Asia

  p. 147

  Bodrov, Semyon Yu.; Genelt-Janovsky, Evgeny; Zakharov, Evgeny S.; Vasilyeva, Veronika K.; Okhlopkov, Innokentiy M.; Abramson, Nataliya

• Multiple mitochondrial pseudogenes in the nuclear genome in two species of mole voles (Ellobius, Cricetidae)

  p. 148

  Kuprina, Kristina V.; Bondareva, Olga V.; Smorkatcheva, Antonina V.; Abramson, Nataliya; Galkina, Svetlana A.

• Comparative study of striped field mouse Apodemus agrarius from continental and insular populations: the result of five microsatellite loci analysis

  p. 149

  Frisman, Liubov V.; Sheremetyeva, Irina N.; Kartavtseva, Irina V.; Pavlenko, Marina V.; Bogdanov, Alexey S.

• Phylogeography, taxonomy and diversity of montane populations of laminate-toothed rats (Muridae: Otomys) in the southern Great Escarpment, South Africa, with the description of a new species

  p. 150

  Taylor, Peter J.; Kearney, Teresa; Dalton, Desirée L.; Chakona, Gamuchirai; Kelly, Chris M. R.; Barker, Nigel P.

• Computational species delimitation provides evidence for distinct evolutionary lineages of Trinomys iheringi (Rodentia: Echomyidae)

  p. 151

  Nacif, Camila L.; Carvalho, Beatriz M.; Bonvicino, Cibele R.

• Genetic analysis of type material brings logical order in geographic distribution and taxonomy. Case study of Central Asian vole genera Neodon, Blanfordimus, Lasiopodomys

  p. 152

  Abramson, Nataliya; Petrova, Tatyana

• The genus Sciurus in Turkey: data on their distribution, morphometry, karyology and mtDNA sequence variation

  p. 153

  Özkurt, Şakir Önder; Kandemir, İrfan

• A new vole record from Anatolia may change the evolutionary story of voles in Anatolia

  p. 154

  Irmak, Sercan; Sözen, Mustafa; Çetintaş, Ortaç; Çoğal, Muhsin; Matur, Ferhat

• Small mammal responses to farming practices in central Argentinian agroecosystems: the use of hierarchical occupancy models

  p. 155

  Gomez, María D.; Goijman, Andrea; Coda, José; Serafini, Vanesa; Priotto, José

• Native rodents are the main seed predators in areas representing distinct phases along an active restoration process in a neotropical savanna

  p. 156

  Santos, Jessica L.; Schmidt, Isabel B.; Vieira, Emerson M.

• Research progresses on seed-rodent interactions in China

  p. 157

  Zhang, Zhibin

• Effects of insect-infestation on rodent-mediated dispersal of Quercus aliena: results from field and enclosure experiments

  p. 158

  Zhang, Bo; Shi, Zijun; Chen, Xiaoning; Hou, Xiang; Wang, Jing; Li, Jingang; Chang, Gang

• Estimation of benefits and losses of seed scatter hoarding behaviour by rodents in a subtropical forest: implications for the evolution of mutualism in seed-rodent systems

  p. 159

  Gu, Haifeng; Zhao, Qingjian; Zhang, Zhibin

• Seed size effects on seed dispersal and predation by rodents at tree individual level

  p. 160

  Wang, Bo

• Forest fragmentation alters seed-rodent interaction networks: implications for rodent management

  p. 161

  Yang, Xifu; Yan, Chuan; Zhang, Zhibin

• Lead (Pb) bioconcentration in cestode parasites (Hymenolepis spp.) of rats (Rattus spp.) and their potential as indicator of heavy metal contamination in terrestrial environments

  p. 162

  Fornesa, Roman N.; Paller, Vachel V.

• Changes in rodent burrow abundance and distribution in grazing ecosystems of southern Russia under human-induced landscape transformation from the desert to steppe

  p. 163

  Surkova, Elena; Savinetskaya, Ludmila; Ovchinnikova, Natalya; Tchabovsky, Andrey

• The potential of small and medium mammalian carnivores to mediate rodent pest damage in commercial agriculture

  p. 164

  Swanepoel, Lourens H.; Swanepoel, Corrie M.; Keith, Mark; Belmain, Steven R.; Taylor, Peter J.; Rötter, Reimund P.; Hoffmann, Munir; Williams, Sam

• Rodents as indicators of the ecological impact of an open-cast iron ore mine in the Northern Cape, South Africa

  p. 165

  Avenant, Nico L.; Du Plessis, Jurie J.; Smit, Nico

• Rodents and their role in habitats in an tropical Africa context: the case of the DR Congo

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• A valued rodent (Rattus exulans) population assessed for cultural harvest

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• Of city mice and village mice: behavioural adaptations of voles and mice to urban environments

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• Genetic structure, reproduction and physiology features of the common hamster (Cricetus cricetus) in urban populations

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  Feoktistova, Natalia Yu; Meschersky, Ilya G.; Surov, Alexey V.

• Population recovery of Mus musculus in poultry farms of central Argentina. The role of local and landscape features

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  León, Vanina A.; Fraschina, Jimena; Guidobono, Juan S.; Cavia, Regino; Busch, María

• Synanthropic rodents of north-east Siberia: changes in rodent population caused by urbanization, agrarian, and industrial development

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  Shadrina, Elena G.; Vol'pert, Yakov L.; Okhlopkov, Innokentiy M.

• Effects of artificial light at night on behavior of two small mammal species

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  Hoffmann, Julia; Eccard, Jana A.; Schirmer, Annika

• Microhabitat use of small non-flying mammals in a lower montane forest fragment in the central Cordillera, Luzon Island, Philippines

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  Reginaldo, Aris; Ong, Perry

• Where the wild rats go: the relationship between the socio-environmental gradient and rat abundance in slum communities

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  Zeppelini, Caio G.; Khalil, Hussein; Begon, Michael; Carvalho-Pereira, Ticiana; Brito, Ricardo L.; Costa, Federico

• Peri-urban black rats host a rich assembly of ticks with no clear consequences for rat condition

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  Lydecker, Henry W.; Hochuli, Dieter F.; Banks, Peter B.

• Safe assessment of CRISPR-Cas9 gene drive strategies in mice

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  Pfitzner, Chandran; Adikusuma, Fatwa; White, Melissa; Piltz, Sandra; Prowse, Thomas; Ross, Joshua; Cassey, Phill; Hughes, James; Thomas, Paul

• Global trends in the development of rodenticides and new approaches

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  Eason, Charles; Linklater, Wayne; Ogilvie, Shaun; Shapiro, Lee; Blackie, Helen

• RNAi as the next generation tool for the control of rodent populations

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  Horak, Katherine

• Opportunities for using novel genetic control tools for the humane control of overabundant vertebrate pest populations

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  Strive, Tanja; Tizard, Mark; Brown, Peter R.; Henry, Steve; Edwards, Owain; Sheppard, Andrew W.

• Evaluation of selected pesticidal plant extracts for maize (Zea mays L.) protection against Mastomys natalensis (Smith, 1834) in Tanzania

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  Mdangi, Mashaka E.; Borremans, Benny; Sibuga, Pilly; Mulungu, Loth S.

• Do avian and terrestrial predators empty self-service traps for common vole (Microtus arvalis)?

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  Schlötelburg, Annika; Plekat, Alexandra; Wolff, Christian; Bellingrath- Kimura, Sonoko; Jacob, Jens

• Research progresses on the anti-fertility effects of a contraceptive bait of quinestrol and levonogestrel (EP-1)

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  Liu, Ming; Zhang, Zhibin

• Comparative analysis of some weight and structural parameters for determination of sexual dimorphism in adrenal function of the Libyan jird, Meriones libycus (Lichtenstein, 1823)

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  Aknoun-Sail, Naouel; Kheddache, Arezki; Zatra, Yamina; Benmouloud, Abdelouafi; Khammar, Farida; Amirat, Zaina

• Family-specified direction of selection in underground rodents

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  Bondareva, Olga V.; Kasianov, Artem; Abramson, Nataliya

• Testicular luteinizing hormone receptor (Lhcgr) mRNA expression correlated to testis and seminal vesicles activities in the Libyan jird (Meriones libycus) in breeding season compared to non breeding season

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  Boufermes, Radia; Belhocine, Mansouria; Amirat, Zaina; Khammar, Farida

• Huddling conserves energy, decreases core body temperature, but increases activity in Brandt's voles (Lasiopodomys brandtii)

  p. 186

  Gansukh, Sukhchuluun; Zhang, Xueying; Chi, Qingsheng; Wang, Dehua

• Stomach anatomy of Praomys taitae

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  Laakkonen, Juha

• The effects of population bottlenecks on dental variation in arvicoline rodents

  p. 188

  Markova, Evgenia; Bobretsov, Anatoliy; Sibiryakov, Petr; Yalkovskaya, Lidia E.; Zykov, Sergey; Smirnov, Nikolay

• Assessment of the activity of Neural Stem Cells in the postnatal brain of Microtus thomasi

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  Mellou, Maria; Andreopoulou, Evangelia; Mitsainas, George P.; Kazanis, Ilias

• A study of behavioral and biochemical indicators in brain regions of the vole Microtus thomasi (Rodentia, Arvicolinae), following the induction of epileptic seizures

  p. 190

  Tetorou, Konstantina; Atsopardi, Korina; Rungo, Sparti; Panagopoulos, Nikolaos T.; Mitsainas, George P.; Margarity, Marigoula

• Reproductive behaviour of mothers facing infanticide risk

  p. 191

  Breedveld, Merel C.; Folkertsma, Remco; Eccard, Jana A.

• Social Contact Network loggers – an open source, high resolution approach for monitoring interactions between small rodents

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  Kirkpatrick, Lucinda; Herrares, Ivan

• Comparative analysis of isolation-induced pup ultrasonic calls of five gerbil species

  p. 193

  Kozhevnikova, Julia D.; Volodin, Ilya A.; Yurlova, Daria D.; Ilchenko, Olga G.; Volodina, Elena V.

• Co-existence leads to diet shift of bank voles by competition with greysided voles?

  p. 194

  Magnusson, Magnus; Samelius, Gustaf; Hörnfeldt, Birger; Ecke, Frauke

• Sexual differences in home ranges of Apodemus peninsulae in Korea

  p. 195

  Park, Sung Jin; Lee, Woo-Shin

• Find the needle in the haystack: tracing the dispersal of small palatable tree seeds in European beech forests

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  Sachser, Frederik; Nopp-Mayr, Ursula; Kempter, Iris; Hausleithner, Christa; Gratzer, Georg

• Low correlation between parameters from different behavioral tests in the common vole

  p. 197

  Sedlacek, Frantisek; Elias, Zdenek; Kolarova, Petra; Mladenkova, Nella; Urbankova, Gabriela

• Relationship of breathing frequency to personality trait in the common vole (Microtus arvalis)

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  Sedlacek, Frantisek; Janochova, Lenka; Mladenkova, Nella; Sichova, Klara; Urbankova, Gabriela

• Secondhand horror: effects of direct and indirect predator cues on behavior and reproduction of the bank vole

  p. 199

  Sievert, Thorbjörn; Haapakoski, Marko; Palme, Rupert; Ylönen, Hannu

• Fear or curiosity: does a shelter help to be courageous?

  p. 200

  Silva, Ricardo B.; Monarca, Rita I.; Cerveira, Ana M.; von Merten, Sophie

• Social networks and parasite transmission in wild guinea pigs (Cavia aperea) in outdoor enclosures

  p. 201

  Sobrero, Raúl; Goggi, Jimena; Eberhardt, Ayelen T.; Beldomenico, Pablo M.

• Habitat selection by small mammals in hemiboreal mosaic landscape

  p. 202

  Tõnisalu, Grete; Väli, Ülo

• Ultrasonic pulse bouts of a blind fast-climbing rodent (Typhlomys chapensis): similarities and differences with echolocation calls of bats

  p. 203

  Volodin, Ilya A.; Panyutina, Aleksandra A.; Abramov, Alexei V.; Ilchenko, Olga G.; Volodina, Elena V.

• Age-class differences in the acoustic structure of ultrasonic calls of yellow steppe lemmings (Eolagurus luteus)

  p. 204

  Yurlova, Daria D.; Volodin, Ilya A.; Kozhevnikova, Julia D.; Ilchenko, Olga G.; Volodina, Elena V.

• Нibernation performance in free-ranging common hamster (Cricetus cricetus)

  p. 205

  Zaytseva, Elena A.; Surov, Alexey V.; Feoktistova, Natalia Yu; Tovpinetz, Nikolay N.

• Нibernation patterns in free-ranging common hamsters (Cricetus cricetus)

  p. 206

  Zaytseva, Elena A.; Surov, Alexey V.; Feoktistova, Natalia Yu; Tovpinetz, Nikolay N.

• Bio-economic model of muskrat control

  p. 207

  Bos, Daan; van Loon, E. Emiel; Ydenberg, Ron C.

• Prevalence of rodenticide resistance in Singapore's rat population

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  Chua, Wei Qiang; Humaidi, Mahathir; Yap, Grace; Ng, Lee Ching

• Prevalence of rodenticide resistance in Singapore's rat population

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  Chua, Wei Qiang; Humaidi, Mahathir; Yap, Grace; Ng, Lee Ching

• Prevalence of rodenticide resistance in Singapore's rat population

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  Chua, Wei Qiang; Humaidi, Mahathir; Yap, Grace; Ng, Lee Ching

• Which factors drive the genetic differences of Norway rats (Rattus norvegicus) on farms?

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  Esther, Alexandra; Krämer, Ilona; Klemann, Nicole; König, Stephan

• Phenology of Norway rats, Rattus norvegicus, in the sewer system of Barcelona (Spain)

  p. 210

  Franco, Sandra; Pascual, Jordi; Montalvo, Tomás; Bueno, Rubén; García- Anglés, Andreu; Peracho, Víctor

• Predation by Rattus rattus on the Hantavirus reservoirs rodent, Oligoryzomys longicaudatus in Laguna del Laja National Park, Chile

  p. 211

  Guzmán, Jonathan; Espinoza, Nicole; Verdugo, Nicole

• Common vole dynamic and its crop preferences in the agroecosystems during a ten-year study

  p. 212

  Heroldová, Marta; Šipoš, Jan; Zejda, Jan; Suchomel, Josef

• Effects of anticoagulant exposure on non-target species using four species of reptiles as surrogates

  p. 213

  Horak, Katherine; Mauldin, Richard; Moulton, Rachael; Witmer, Gary

• Developing ecologically-based rodent management for smallholder farmers in Zambia

  p. 214

  Imakando, Christopher I.; Fernandez-Grandon, G. Mandela; Singleton, Grant R.; Belmain, Steven R.

• Modelling and simulation of the toxicokinetics of fungicides in common voles (Microtus arvalis)

  p. 215

  Imholt, Christian; Abdulla, Tariq; Stevens, Alexander; Edwards, Peter; Woods, David; Rodgers, Elaine; Aarons, Leon; Jacob, Jens

• Diversity and abundance of rodent pests and their impact on rural inhabitants of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan

  p. 216

  Khanam, Surrya

• Low rates of resistance to anticoagulant rodenticides in the population of Norway rats, Rattus norvegicus, in Barcelona (Spain)

  p. 217

  Martínez de la Puente, Josué; Franco, Sandra; Figuerola, Jordi; Pascual, Jordi; Peracho, Víctor; Montalvo, Tomás

• Spatial and temporal changes of diet of multimammate rat (Mastomys natalensis, Smith 1832) in relation to the breeding patterns in semi-arid areas in Tanzania

  p. 218

  Mlyashimbi, Emmanuel C. M.; Leirs, Herwig; Kimaro, Didas N.; Tarimo, Akwilini J.P.; Isabirye, Moses; Makundi, Rhodes H.; Massawe, Apia W.; Mdangi, Mashaka E.; Mulungu, Loth S.; Belmain, Steven R.

• Regional rodent control approach in a countryside in Germany: fostering synergy effects between participating players

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  Wernsmann, Anna; Hecker, Odile; Mergenthaler, Marcus; Boelhauve, Marc

• Effects of rivers on gene flow in small rodent populations

  p. 220

  Borowski, Zbigniew; Tereba, Anna; Dabrowski, Michal J.

• Aquatic and terrestrial water voles: phylogeography and morphometrics

  p. 221

  Chevret, Pascale; Helvaci, Zeycan; Quéré, Jean-Pierre; Renaud, Sabrina; Michaux, Johan R.

• Local persistence of Mann’s soft-haired mouse Abrothrix manni (Cricetidae, Sigmodontinae) during Quaternary glaciations in southern Chile

  p. 222

  D'Elia, Guillermo; Valdez, Lourdes

• Root vole Microtus oeconomus in the post-glacial landscape: how the history of the Pleistocene glaciations and a contemporary distribution of habitats reflects the genetic structure of the population

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  Jancewicz, Elżbieta; Falkowska, Ewa

• Genetic variation and population structure of the red squirrel (Sciurus vulgaris) in Lithuania

  p. 224

  Ražanskė, Irma; Lipatova, Indrė; Budginas, Lukas; Paulauskas, Algimantas

• Phylogeography of the striped field mouse (Apodemus agrarius, Pallas 1771): new data from the western part of the disjunctive range

  p. 225

  Yalkovskaya, Lidia E.; Sibiryakov, Petr; Borodin, Alexander V.

• The effect of habitat connectivity on colonisation of forest fragments with rodents

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  Below, Diana Alexandra; Imholt, Christian; Ennen, Hendrik; Thiele, Jan; Günner, Patrick; Jacob, Jens

• Recent information on population status of Meriones dahli that is close to extinction in the Middle East

  p. 227

  Bulut, Safak; Akbaba, Burak; Dogan, Murat; Ulusoy, Kadir; Karatas, Ahmet

• Recent bamboo flowering in Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh: anticipating new rodent outbreaks

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  Chakma, Nikhil; Sarker, Noor Jahan; Belmain, Steven R.; AID-Comilla

• Trophic niche partitioning by small mammals in forest environments. Influence of food types and availability, measured using stable isotope analysis in hair

  p. 229

  Chibowski, Piotr; Brzeziński, Marcin

• Population size and distribution of Norway rat, Rattus norvegicus, in the sewer system of Barcelona (Spain)

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  Franco, Sandra; Pascual, Jordi; Montalvo, Tomás; Bueno, Rubén; Sala, Fernando; Peracho, Víctor

• Rodent population dynamics: multimodality amplified by climatic fluctuations

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  Frisman, Efim Ya.; Kulakov, Matvey P.; Neverova, Galina P.

• Drivers of Microtus arvalis population dynamics : lessons from a 17 year time series

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  Giraudoux, Patrick; Quéré, Jean-Pierre; Villette, Petra; Damange, Jean-Pierre; Delattre, Pierre

• Population dynamics, breeding pattern and home ranges of rodent species in fallow lands of Mukwe Constituency, Kavango-East Region, Namibia

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  Kaoti, Jackson; Eiseb, Seth J.; Massawe, Apia W.; Mariën, Joachim; Belmain, Steven R.

• Estimating the absolute abundance of rodents and their mammalian predators from camera traps in the southern Yukon, Canada

  p. 234

  Kenney, Alice J.; Krebs, Charles J.; Boutin, Stan; Villette, Petra

• Regulation of reproduction in Brandt's voles

  p. 235

  Liu, Xiao-Hui; Wang, Dawei; Li, Ning; Song, Ying

• Species composition and community structure of small pest rodents (Muridae) in cultivated and fallow fields in maize growing areas in Eastern Uganda

  p. 236

  Mayamba, Alex; Mulungu, Loth S.; Isabirye, Moses; Kifumba, David; Nakiyemba, Alice; Kimaro, Didas N.

• Population fluctuation and breeding patterns of multimammate mouse, Mastomys natalensis (Smith 1834), in maize associated cropping system in Eastern Uganda

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  Mayamba, Alex; Isabirye, Moses; Kifumba, David; Kimaro, Didas N.; Massawe, Apia W.; Makundi, Rhodes H.; Mulungu, Loth S.

• Probability of bank vole and red vole hybridization in different geographical localities

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  Osipova, Olga V.

• Development and evaluation of a genome-wide SNP panel for invasive ship rats (Rattus rattus) in New Zealand

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  Pichlmueller, Florian; Lehnert, Klaus; Russell, James C.

• Frequency of acorn mast years can act as a potential driver of rodent population and phenotype characteristic

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  Suchomel, Josef; Šipoš, Jan; Heroldová, Marta

• Kinship analysis revealed reproductive success skewed toward overwintered Brandt's voles in semi-natural enclosures

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  Wang, Dawei; Chen, Yan; Li, Ning; Hu, Xiangfa; Ren, Fei; Hao, Weili; Song, Ying; Liu, Xiao-Hui

• House mouse population dynamics and impacts on invertebrates in the absence of other mammals

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  Wilson, Deborah J.; Watts, Corinne; Innes, John G.; Fitzgerald, Neil B.; Bartlam, Scott; Thornburrow, Danny; Cave, Vanessa M.

• Impacts of non-monotonic interactions on population and community dynamics

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  Yan, Chuan; Zhang, Zhibin

• Schistosomiasis in the Senegal River Basin and the role of wild rodents as reservoir hosts

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  Catalano, Stefano; Léger, Elsa; Fall, Cheikh B.; Borlase, Anna; Sène, Mariama; Diouf, Nicolas D.; Bâ, Khalilou; Webster, Joanne P.

• Rodents diversity and pathogen carriage at Limpopo National Park villages, Mozambique

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  Gomes-Jaintilal, Iara; Silveira, Cristiane; Fafetine, José; Neves, Luís

• Mice in and around the city of Utrecht, The Netherlands, are carriers of Clostridium difficile but not ESBL-producing Enterobacteriaceae, Salmonella spp. or MRSA

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  Harmanus, Céline; Burt, Sara A.

• Detection of Rickettsia pathogens in small rodents and their ectoparasites in Lithuania

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  Kaminskienė, Evelina; Mardosaitė-Busaitienė, Dalytė; Paulauskas, Algimantas; Radzijevskaja, Jana; Lipatova, Indrė; Balčiauskas, Linas

• Detection of Leptospira and seasonal prevalence of fleas collected from rodents in Mukwe Constituency, Kavango-East Region of Namibia

  p. 248

  Kapia, Saima; Eiseb, Seth J.; Mulungu, Loth S.; Tortosa, Pablo; Belmain, Steven R.

• Rodents from a rice milling station in Bangladesh infected with Toxoplasma gondii

  p. 249

  Krijger, Inge M.; Cornelissen, Jan B.W.J.; Belmain, Steven R.; Meerburg, Bastiaan G.

• Leptospirosis and toxoplasmosis in wild rodents in The Netherlands

  p. 250

  Krijger, Inge M.; Goris, Marga G. A.; Ahmed, Ahmed A.; Koerkamp, Peter W.G. Groot; Meerburg, Bastiaan G.

• Leptospirosis in rodents in peri-urban Bangladesh

  p. 251

  Krijger, Inge M.; Ahmed, Ahmed A.; Goris, Marga G.A.; Koerkamp, Peter W.G. Groot; Meerburg, Bastiaan G.

• Detection of Bartonella spp. in red squirrel (Sciurus vulgaris) and their ectoparasites in Lithuania

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  Lipatova, Indrė; Ražanskė, Irma; Paulauskas, Algimantas

• Genetic diversity of Bartonella strains in small rodents

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  Mardosaitė-Busaitienė, Dalytė; Radzijevskaja, Jana; Paulauskas, Algimantas; Balčiauskas, Linas; Bračikov, Maksim

• Resistance to last-resort human antimicrobial agents among gramnegative bacteria recovered from Barcelona Norway rats (Rattus norvegicus)

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  Marí-Almirall, Marta; Vallejo, Yaiza; Sabaté, Sara; Franco, Sandra; Muñoz, Laura; Nieto, Maria; Cosgaya, Clara; Pascual, Jordi; Roca, Ignasi; Montalvo, Tomás

• Resistance to last-resort human antimicrobial agents among gramnegative bacteria recovered from Barcelona Norway rats (Rattus norvegicus)

  p. 254

  Marí-Almirall, Marta; Vallejo, Yaiza; Sabaté, Sara; Franco, Sandra; Muñoz, Laura; Nieto, Maria; Cosgaya, Clara; Pascual, Jordi; Roca, Ignasi; Montalvo, Tomás

• Resistance to last-resort human antimicrobial agents among gramnegative bacteria recovered from Barcelona Norway rats (Rattus norvegicus)

  p. 254

  Marí-Almirall, Marta; Vallejo, Yaiza; Sabaté, Sara; Franco, Sandra; Muñoz, Laura; Nieto, Maria; Cosgaya, Clara; Pascual, Jordi; Roca, Ignasi; Montalvo, Tomás

• Evaluation of rodent control to fight Lassa fever through mathematical modelling

  p. 255

  Mariën, Joachim; Leirs, Herwig; Magassouba, N’Faly; Fichet-Calvet, Elisabeth

• Responses of rodent reservoirs of zoonotic diseases to anthropogenic land-use change: a meta-analysis

  p. 256

  Mendoza, Hugo; Rubio, André V.; García-Peñ, Gabriel E.; Suzan, Gerardo; Simonetti, Javier A.

• First bacteriological screening of Norway rats, Rattus norvegicus, in Barcelona (Spain)

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  Montalvo, Tomás; Vila, Jordi; Sabaté, Sara; Ramírez, Beatriz; Planell, Raquel; Martínez, Mikel; Peiró, Aida; Pascual, Jordi; Franco, Sandra; Peracho, Víctor

• Education in health associated with gamification against leptospirosis

  p. 258

  Neves, Isa B.; Lustosa, Ricardo; Brito, Patricia; Khalil, Hussein; Costa, Federico; Begon, Michael

• No role for rodents as alternative hosts for cutaneous leishmaniasis in S. Ethiopia

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  Pareyn, Myrthe; Negatu, Girma; Fekadu, Massebo; Shibru, Simon; Leirs, Herwig

• Puumala hantavirus dynamics in bank voles: identification of environmental correlates to predict human infection risk

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  Reil, Daniela; Imholt, Christian; Rosenfeld, Ulrike; Schmidt, Sabrina; Ulrich, Rainer; Eccard, Jana A.; Jacob, Jens

• Survey on zoonotic helminthiases in Norway rats, Rattus norvegicus, from the city of Barcelona

  p. 261

  Sanxis, Joan; Galán-Puchades, M. Teresa; Pascual, Jordi; Bueno-Marí, Rubén; Franco, Sandra; Peracho, Víctor; Montalvo, Tomás; Fuentes, Màrius V.

• Geographic variation of the genus Arvicanthis (Rodentia: Muridae) from Sudan

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  Ahmed, Eitimad H. Abdel-Rahman; Taylor, Peter J.; Contrafatto, Giancarlo; Lamb, Jennifer M.

• Maternal divergences within Myospalax and introgressive hybridization in the eastern Qinghai-Tibet Plateau

  p. 263

  Cai, Zhenyuan; Song, Pengfei; Gao, Hongmei; Su, Jianping; Zhang, Tongzuo

• Systematics of an Andean akodontine, Akodon mimus (Cricetidae, Sigmodontinae): insights from molecular markers

  p. 264

  Cañón, Carola; Guzmán, Jonathan; Pardiñas, Ulyses F.J.

• A phylogenetic study on Anatolian endemic Dryomys laniger (Mammalia: Rodentia) to determine an in-situ conservation area

  p. 265

  Çetintaş, Ortaç; Sözen, Mustafa; Irmak, Sercan; Çolak, Faruk; Matur, Ferhat

• The traits of contact zones between different chromosomal races of Mus musculus domesticus (Rodentia: Muridae) in two Robertsonian (Rb) systems of Greece

  p. 266

  Chorba, Konstantina; Garefalaki, Joanna; Mitsainas, George P.

• Karyology of Meriones dahli Shidlovsky, 1962 (Rodentia: Mammalia) in Turkey

  p. 267

  Coşkun, Yüksel; Kaya, Alaettin

• A new chromosomal race of the Evoron voles Alexandromys evoronensis of two isolated populations in the Russian Far East

  p. 268

  Kartavtseva, Irina V.; Sheremetyeva, Irina N.; Pavlenko, Marina V.; Vasiljeva, Tatyana V.; Frisman, Liubov V.

• Karyological study of the house mouse, Mus musculus domesticus (Rodentia, Muridae), at the Robertsonian (Rb) system of Ipiros, Greece

  p. 269

  Kolia, Konstantina; Mitsainas, George P.

• Genetic structure of a peripheral population of the Northern mole vole: re-evaluation after eliminating nuclear pseudogene contaminants

  p. 270

  Kuprina, Kristina V.; Smorkatcheva, Antonina V.; Novikov, Eugeny A.; Zadubrovskiy, Pavel A.

• Is there subspecies structure of the common hamster (Cricetus cricetus Linnaeus, 1758) in Russia? Craniometric analysis

  p. 271

  Saian, Aleksandra S.; Feoktistova, Natalia Yu; Meschersky, Ilya G.; Bogomolov, Pavel L.; Surov, Alexey V.

• Gerbillus dasyurus (Rodentia: Gerbillinae) record from Hatay Province in Turkey

  p. 272

  Sözen, Mustafa; Çoğal, Muhsin

• New records of Robertsonian (Rb) variability in Greek house mouse, Mus musculus domesticus (Rodentia: Muridae), populations from S Sterea Ellada

  p. 273

  Tsele, Nikoletta; Mitsainas, George P.

• Taxonomic separation of the red-cheeked ground squirrel from South-East Kazakhstan

  p. 274

  Volodina, Elena V.; Matrosova, Vera A.; Ivanova, Anastasia D.; Volodin, Ilya A.; Alexandrov, Dmitry Y.; Sibiryakova, Olga V.; Ermakov, Oleg A.

• Testing the “density-benefit” relationships for invasive alien species: does black rat density influence their role as pollinators?

  p. 275

  Saul, Amelia; Taylor, Charlotte; Banks, Peter B.

• Habitat preferences of small mammal species distributed in the eastern Black Sea region in Turkey

  p. 276

  Bulut, Safak; Akbaba, Burak; Karatas, Ahmet

• Coarse woody debris in home ranges of bank vole Myodes glareolus

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  Kielan, Emilia; Jancewicz, Elżbieta

• A review of methods for studying the seed-rodent interaction

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  Li, Hongjun; Gu, Haifeng; Zhang, Zhibin

• When will beavers build a dam? A study in Belgian lowland

  p. 279

  Swinnen, Kristijn; Rutten, Anneleen; Nyssen, Jan; Leirs, Herwig

• The effect of urbanization on the growth indices and parasite infestation of wild brown rats, Rattus norvegicus

  p. 280

  Tian, Jundong; Li, Linyue; Li, Mengzhen; Li, Wenjing; Jiang, Zongliang; Zhao, Yingshen; Lu, Jiqi

• Intraspecific pilferage and pilferage avoidance in Sciurotamias davidianus

  p. 281

  Wang, Zhiyong; Huang, Guangchuan; Zhang, Hongmao

• Manipulation of plants based on seed survival rates: complex spatial patterns delay seed retrieval in rodents

  p. 282

  Zhao, Lijie; Yao, Nannan; Zhang, Yifeng; Lu, Jiqi

• Searching for signatures of genetic adaptation to climate in bank voles

  p. 283

  Folkertsma, Remco; Eccard, Jana A.; Hofreiter, Michael

• Association of rodents with man-made infrastructures and food waste in urban Singapore

  p. 284

  Humaidi, Mahathir; Yang, Ang Kai; Ng, Lee Ching; Yap, Grace

• Personality dependent corridor use in a grassland species

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  Kowalski, Gabriele Joanna; Herde, Antje; Eccard, Jana A.

• Diet shift by livestock grazing shape the gut microbiota composition and co-occurrence networks in a local rodent species

  p. 286

  Li, Guoliang; Li, Jing; Kohl, Kevin D.; Yin, Baofa; Wei, Wanhong; Wan, Xinrong; Zhu, Baoli; Zhang, Zhibin

• Small mammal richness and diversity in the changing landscape of central Italy

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