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A faunal survey in Kingu Pira (south Tanzania), with new karyotypes of several small mammals and the description of a new Murid species (Mammalia, Rodentia) ⬇️

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A mitochondrial phylogeographic scenario for the most widespread African rodent,Mastomys natalensis

A new Desmodillus (Gerbillinae, Rodentia) species from the early Pliocene site of Langebaanweg (South-western Cape, South Africa)

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A new Pliocene xerine sciurid (Rodentia) from Kossom Bougoudi, Chad

A new hominid from the Upper Miocene of Chad, Central Africa

scientific article

African highlands as mammal diversity hotspots: new records ofLamottemys okuensisPetter, 1986 (Rodentia: Muridae) and other endemic rodents from Mt Oku, Cameroon ⬇️

scholarly article by Christiane Denys et al published September 2014 in Zoosystema

Altérations structurales et chimiques des éléments squelettiques de pelotes de régurgitation d'un rapace diurne ⬇️

scholarly article published in 1992

An African Bat Hotspot: The Exceptional Importance of Mount Nimba for Bat Diversity

Apports de l’analyse morphométrique à la détermination des espèces actuelles et fossiles du genre Saccostomus (Cricetomyinae, Rodentia)

scholarly article published in 1988

Assessment of Three Mitochondrial Genes (16S, Cytb, CO1) for Identifying Species in the Praomyini Tribe (Rodentia: Muridae)

scientific article (publication date: 4 May 2012)

Associated tympanic bullar and cochlear hypertrophy define adaptations to true deserts in African gerbils and laminate-toothed rats (Muridae: Gerbillinae and Murinae)

scientific article published on 25 November 2018

Biominerals Fossilisation: Fish Bone Diagenesis in Plio–Pleistocene African Hominid Sites of Malawi

scientific article published in 2020

Compression and digestion as agents of vertebral deformation in Sciaenidae, Merlucidae and Gadidae remains: an experimental study to interpret archaeological assemblages ⬇️

scientific article published on 21 May 2021

Cranial morphometric and fine scale genetic variability of two adjacentMastomys natalensis (Rodentia: Muridae) populations

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Craniometrical study of the species complex of Meriones shawii-grandis (Mammalia: Rodentia) in Morocco, in Algeria and in Tunisia

scientific article published on 8 December 2017

Cytochrome b-based phylogeny of the Praomys group (Rodentia, Murinae): a new African radiation?

scientific article

Dating the skull from Broken Hill, Zambia, and its position in human evolution

scientific article published on 01 April 2020

Description of a new endemic species of shrew (Mammalia, Soricomorpha) from PrÍncipe Island (Gulf of Guinea)

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Diagenetical changes in Pleistocene small mammal bones from Olduvai Bed I

scientific article published in 1996

Diet of the Lesser Antillean barn owlTyto insularis(Aves: Strigiformes) in Dominica, Lesser Antilles

Diversity of Hipposideridae in the Mount Nimba massif, West Africa, and the Taxonomic Status ofHipposideros lamottei

scientific article published in December 2013

EVOLUTION OF THE GENUS ACOMYS (RODENTIA, MURIDAE) FROM DENTAL AND CHROMOSOMAL PATTERNS ⬇️

scientific article

Evolutionary history of the thicket rats (genus Grammomys ) mirrors the evolution of African forests since late Miocene

First insights into rodent trapping in Oku village, north-west Cameroon, based on interviews with local hunters

scientific article published in 2020

First molecular evidence for the presence of Crocidura pachyura (Mammalia, Soricidae) in Kabylie (Algeria)

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First molecular evidence for the presence of Gerbillus latastei (Rodentia, Muridae) in Algeria

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Flightless scaly-tailed squirrels never learned how to fly: A reappraisal of Anomaluridae phylogeny

scholarly article by Pierre-Henri Fabre published in June 2018

Forest refugia and riverine barriers promote diversification in the West African pygmy shrew (Crocidura obscuriorcomplex, Soricomorpha)

scientific article published in 2013

Hantavirus in African wood mouse, Guinea

scientific article

Host evolution in Mastomys natalensis (Rodentia: Muridae): An integrative approach using geometric morphometrics and genetics

scientific article published on September 2015

Importance of Shaw's Jird Meriones shawii within the trophic components of the Barn Owl Tyto alba in steppic areas of Algeria

scientific article

In memoriam Francis Petter (28 July 1923–21 January 2012)

Les mécanismes de formation des gisements de microvertébrés. 2. Composition chimique élémentaire des os et dents de rongeurs provenant de pelotes de régurgitation ⬇️

scholarly article published in 1989

Life history and habitat do not mediate temporal changes in body size due to climate warming in rodents

scientific article published on 24 September 2020

Mastomys natalensis and Lassa fever, West Africa

scientific article published on December 2006

Molecular and morphological evidence for a Pleistocene radiation of laminate-toothed rats (Otomys: Rodentia) across a volcanic archipelago in equatorial Africa

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Molecular phylogenetic analyses indicate paraphyly of the genus Hybomys (Rodentia: Muridae): Taxonomic implications

scholarly article by Alain Didier Missoup published in February 2018

Molecular phylogeny of hantaviruses harbored by insectivorous bats in Côte d'Ivoire and Vietnam

scientific article

Molecular phylogeny of the African pygmy mice, subgenus Nannomys (Rodentia, Murinae, Mus): implications for chromosomal evolution.

scientific article published on 23 March 2005

Morphological identification of sibling species: the case of West African Mastomys (Rodentia: Muridae) in sympatry

scientific article

Multilocus phylogeny of African striped grass mice (Lemniscomys): stripe pattern only partly reflects evolutionary relationships

scientific article published on 04 November 2020

Multiple geographic origins of commensalism and complex dispersal history of Black Rats

scientific article published in 2011

Musin Morocco: a Quaternary sequence of intraspecific evolution

New molecular data favour an anthropogenic introduction of the wood mouse (Apodemus sylvaticus) in North Africa

scientific article published in 2015

New palaeoecological approaches to interpret climatic fluctuations in Holocenic sites of the Pampean Region of Argentina

scientific article published in March 2021

Nonlinear projection methods for visualizing Barcode data and application on two data sets

scientific article

Notes on the distribution and phylogeography of two rare small Gerbillinae (Rodentia, Muridae) in Morocco: Gerbillus simoni and Gerbillus henleyi

scholarly article by Oussama Bouarakia et al published September 2018 in Comptes Rendus Biologies

Nouveaux critères de reconnaissance des concentrations de microvertébrés d'après l'étude des pelotes de chouettes du Botswana (Afrique australe) ⬇️

scholarly article published in 1985

Novel arenavirus sequences in Hylomyscus sp. and Mus (Nannomys) setulosus from Côte d'Ivoire: implications for evolution of arenaviruses in Africa

scientific article

On a new species of Dendromus (Rodentia, Nesomyidae) from Mount Nimba, Guinea

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Out of Africa: demographic and colonization history of the Algerian mouse (Mus spretus Lataste)

scientific article published on 23 May 2018

Palaeoecological reconstructions of the Middle to Late Pleistocene occupations in the Southern Caucasus using rodent assemblages

scientific article published in 2022

Phylogenetic position of the endemic Mount Oku rat,Lamottemys okuensis(Rodentia: Muridae), based on molecular and morphological data

scholarly article by Alain Didier Missoup et al published 18 December 2015 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society

Phylogeny and biogeography of African Murinae based on mitochondrial and nuclear gene sequences, with a new tribal classification of the subfamily

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Phylogeny of the African murid tribe Otomyini (Rodentia), based on morphological and allozyme evidence

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Phylogeographic structure and regional history ofLemniscomys striatus(Rodentia: Muridae) in tropical Africa

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Phylogeography and demographic history of Shaw's Jird (Meriones shawiicomplex) in North Africa

Phylogeography and evolutionary history of the Crocidura olivieri complex (Mammalia, Soricomorpha): from a forest origin to broad ecological expansion across Africa

scientific article

Phylogeography of the North African dipodil (Rodentia: Muridae) based on cytochrome-bsequences

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Polymorphism of the age population structure of two wild Mastomys natalensis (Rodentia: Muridae) Tanzanian habitat samples: a multicriteria comparison / Polymorphisme de la structure de l'âge dans deux populations sauvages de Mastomys natalensis…

scholarly article published in 2006

Preliminary study of the rodent assemblages of Goda Buticha: New insights on Late Quaternary environmental and cultural changes in southeastern Ethiopia

scholarly article by Emmanuelle Stoetzel et al published March 2018 in Quaternary International

Quaternary terrestrial microvertebrates from mediterranean northwestern Africa: State-of-the-art focused on recent multidisciplinary studies

scientific article

Reconstructing Asian faunal introductions to eastern Africa from multi-proxy biomolecular and archaeological datasets

scientific article

Rodents

2010 scientific article

Shrews of the genus Crocidura from El Harhoura 2 (Témara, Morocco): The contribution of broken specimens to the understanding of Late Pleistocene–Holocene palaeoenvironments in North Africa

scientific article

Species identification of voles and lemmings from Late Pleistocene deposits in Pin Hole Cave (Creswell Crags, UK) using collagen fingerprinting

scholarly article

Specific information levels in relation to fragmentation patterns of shrew mandibles: do fragments tell the same story?

Systematics and diversification of Praomys species (Rodentia: Muridae) endemic to the Cameroon Volcanic Line (West Central Africa)

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Systematics and evolution of the Meriones shawii/grandis complex (Rodentia, Gerbillinae) during the Late Quaternary in northwestern Africa: Exploring the role of environmental and anthropogenic changes

scholarly article

THE AFRICAN NANNOMYS (MURIDAE): AN EARLY OFFSHOOT FROM THE MUS LINEAGE—EVIDENCE FROM scnDNA HYBRIDIZATION EXPERIMENTS AND COMPARED MORPHOLOGY ⬇️

scientific article

Taphonomie des vertébrés oligocènes de Pech Crabit (Lot, Phosphorites du Quercy): Implications géodynamiques et paléoécologiques des remaniements post-mortem

scientific article published in 1997

Taphonomy and palaeoecology of the late Pleistocene to middle Holocene small mammal succession of El Harhoura 2 cave (Rabat-Témara, Morocco)

scientific article published on October 30, 2010

Taphonomy for taxonomists: Implications of predation in small mammal studies

scientific article published in May 2016

Taxonomy and biogeography of the African Pygmy mice, Subgenus Nannomys (Rodentia, Murinae, Mus) in Ivory Coast and Guinea (West Africa)

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The bii4africa dataset of faunal and floral population intactness estimates across Africa’s major land uses

scientific article published on 12 February 2024

The contribution of Edouard-Louis Trouessart to mammalogy

The first identification of <i>Tula orthohantavirus</i> in forest dormice (Rodentia: Gliridae) from Iran

scientific article published on 12 June 2023

The impact of human conflict on the genetics of Mastomys natalensis and Lassa virus in West Africa

scientific article

The phylogeny of the African wood mice (Muridae, Hylomyscus) based on complete mitochondrial genomes and five nuclear genes reveals their evolutionary history and undescribed diversity

scientific article published on 06 December 2019

Tracking the Near Eastern origins and European dispersal of the western house mouse

scientific article published on 19 May 2020

Use of phylogeny to resolve the taxonomy of the widespread and highly polymorphic African giant shrews (Crocidura olivieri group, Crocidurinae, Mammalia).

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West-Central African Pleistocene lowland forest evolution revealed by the phylogeography of Misonne’s soft-furred mouse

journal article; published in African Zoology in 2012

erratum: A new hominid from the Upper Miocene of Chad, Central Africa

scientific article published in Nature

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