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

A new hero emerges: another exceptional mammalian spine and its potential adaptive significance

scientific article

Biodiversity and conservation genetics research in Central Africa: new approaches and avenues for international collaboration

article

Biogeographic origin and radiation of Cuban Eleutherodactylus frogs of the auriculatus species group, inferred from mitochondrial and nuclear gene sequences

scientific article published on 23 August 2009

Chimpanzees surviving in a fragmented high‐altitude forest landscape of the Congolese Albertine Rift

scientific article

DNA barcoding amphibians and reptiles

scientific article published on January 2012

DNA barcoding fishes from the Congo and the Lower Guinean provinces: Assembling a reference library for poorly inventoried fauna

scientific article published on 17 April 2019

Dealing with food and eggs in mouthbrooding cichlids: structural and functional trade-offs in fitness related traits

scientific article

Discovery of a new duiker species (Bovidae: Cephalophinae) from the Dahomey Gap, West Africa ⬇️

scientific article (publication date: 6 October 2010)

Distinct population structure in a phenotypically homogeneous rock-dwelling cichlid fish from Lake Tanganyika.

scientific article

Divergent ontogenies of trophic morphology in two closely related haplochromine cichlids

scientific article

Diversity, dynamics and reproduction in a community of small mammals in Upper Guinea, with emphasis on pygmy mice ecology

scientific article published in 2009

Drivers affecting habitat use in Afrotropical hipposiderid and pteropodid bats

scientific article published in 2023

Enhanced surveillance of monkeypox in Bas-Uélé, Democratic Republic of Congo: the limitations of symptom-based case definitions

scientific article published on 07 July 2022

Evolution and Conservation of Central African Biodiversity: Priorities for Future Research and Education in the Congo Basin and Gulf of Guinea

Evolution of the tribe Tropheini from Lake Tanganyika: synchronized explosive speciation producing multiple evolutionary parallelism

article

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

Extensive Introgression among Ancestral mtDNA Lineages: Phylogenetic Relationships of the Utaka within the Lake Malawi Cichlid Flock

scientific article

Functional volumes, niche packing and species richness: biogeographic legacies in the Congo Basin

scientific article published on 04 March 2020

Genetic variation of the most abundant forest‐dwelling rodents in Central Africa ( Praomys jacksoni complex): Evidence for Pleistocene refugia in both montane and lowland forests

High prevalence of Rickettsia typhi and Bartonella species in rats and fleas, Kisangani, Democratic Republic of the Congo

scientific article published on 20 January 2014

Historical biogeography, systematics, and integrative taxonomy of the non-Ethiopian speckled pelage brush-furred rats (Lophuromys flavopunctatus group)

scientific article published on 19 May 2021

In situ experiments on the effects of increased sediment loads on littoral rocky shore communities in Lake Tanganyika, East Africa

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Limited possibilities for prezygotic barriers in the reproductive behaviour of sympatric Ophthalmotilapia species (Teleostei, Cichlidae).

scientific article published on 24 December 2017

Low genetic and morphometric intraspecific divergence in peripheral copadichromis populations (perciformes: cichlidae) in the lake Malawi basin.

scientific article

Microgeographical distribution of shrews (Mammalia, Soricidae) in the Congo River basin (Kisangani, D.R. Congo)

scientific article published in January 2008

Mitochondrial phylogeny and phylogeography of East African squeaker catfishes (Siluriformes: Synodontis)

scientific article

Mitochondrial phylogeny reveals differential modes of chromosomal evolution in the genus Tatera (Rodentia: Gerbillinae) in Africa.

scientific article

Molecular Identification of an Invasive Sarotherodon Species from the Atchakpa Freshwater Reservoir (Ouémé River Basin, Benin) and Comparison within S. melanotheron Using COI Markers

scientific article published in 2021

Molecular detection and genomic characterization of diverse hepaciviruses in African rodents

scientific article published on 09 April 2021

Molecular taxonomy of Crocidura species (Eulipotyphla: Soricidae) in a key biogeographical region for African shrews, Nigeria

scientific article published on 01 March 2019

Morphometry and DNA barcoding reveal cryptic diversity in the genus Enteromius (Cypriniformes: Cyprinidae) from the Congo basin, Africa

scientific article published on 12 April 2017

Morphometry and DNA barcoding reveal cryptic diversity in the genus Enteromius (Cypriniformes: Cyprinidae) from the Congo basin, Africa – Corrigendum

scientific article published on 28 April 2017

Neurogenomic Profiling Reveals Distinct Gene Expression Profiles Between Brain Parts That Are Consistent in Ophthalmotilapia Cichlids

scientific article published on 9 March 2018

New data on the distribution and phylogenetic position of Mastomys awashensis (Rodentia, Muridae)

scholarly article by Paolo Colangelo et al published September 2010 in Mammalian Biology

Oil extraction imperils Africa's Great Lakes

scientific article published in November 2016

Ontogenetic divergence generates novel phenotypes in hybrid cichlids

scientific article published on 08 January 2021

Origin of the superflock of cichlid fishes from Lake Victoria, East Africa

scientific article

Out of Tanganyika: genesis, explosive speciation, key-innovations and phylogeography of the haplochromine cichlid fishes

scientific article

Paleoclimate, ecoregion size, and degree of isolation explain regional biodiversity differences among terrestrial vertebrates within the Congo Basin

scientific article published on 17 April 2019

Pan-African phylogeny of Mus (subgenus Nannomys) reveals one of the most successful mammal radiations in Africa

scientific article

Patterns of diversification in two African forest shrews: Sylvisorex johnstoni and Sylvisorex ollula (Soricidae, Insectivora) in relation to paleo-environmental changes

scientific article

Phylogenomics of African radiation of Praomyini (Muridae: Murinae) rodents: First fully resolved phylogeny, evolutionary history and delimitation of extant genera ⬇️

journal article from 'Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution' published in 2021

Phylogeny and phylogeography of Altolamprologus: ancient introgression and recent divergence in a rock-dwelling Lake Tanganyika cichlid genus

article

Phylogeny of the Lake Tanganyika cichlid species flock and its relationship to the Central and East African haplochromine cichlid fish faunas

scientific article

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

article

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 a widespread sub-Saharan murid rodent Aethomys chrysophilus: the role of geographic barriers and paleoclimate in the Zambezian bioregion

Pleistocene desiccation in East Africa bottlenecked but did not extirpate the adaptive radiation of Lake Victoria haplochromine cichlid fishes

scholarly article

REDUCED GENE FLOW AT PERICENTROMERIC LOCI IN A HYBRID ZONE INVOLVING CHROMOSOMAL RACES OF THE HOUSE MOUSEMUS MUSCULUS DOMESTICUS

article

Rapid chromosomal evolution in the mesic four-striped grass rat Rhabdomys dilectus (Rodentia, Muridae) revealed by mtDNA phylogeographic analysis

scientific article (publication date: 18 August 2011)

Reconciling biodiversity and carbon stock conservation in an Afrotropical forest landscape.

scientific article

Rediscovery of Glauconycteris superba Hayman, 1939 (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae) after 40 years at Mbiye Island, Democratic Republic of the Congo

scientific article published on 10 April 2013

Repeated unidirectional introgression of nuclear and mitochondrial DNA between four congeneric Tanganyikan cichlids

scientific article published on 15 February 2011

Role of Wildlife in Emergence of Ebola Virus in Kaigbono (Likati), Democratic Republic of the Congo, 2017

scientific article published on 01 September 2020

Shrew trap efficiency: experience from primary forest, secondary forest, old fallow land and old palm plantation in the Congo River basin (Kisangani, Democratic Republic of Congo)

scientific article published in January 2008

Shrews (Soricidae) of the lowland forests around Kisangani (DR Congo)

scientific article published on 20 December 2019

Subtle population structure and male-biased dispersal in two Copadichromis species (Teleostei, Cichlidae) from Lake Malawi, East Africa

article

Taxonomic challenges in freshwater fishes: a mismatch between morphology and DNA barcoding in fish of the north-eastern part of the Congo basin

scientific article published on 17 July 2015

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

article

Terrestrial contributions to Afrotropical aquatic food webs: The Congo River case

scientific article published on 27 August 2019

Terrestrial small mammals as reservoirs of Mycobacterium ulcerans in benin

scientific article

The bats of the Congo and of Rwanda and Burundi revisited (Mammalia: Chiroptera)

scientific article published on 18 December 2017

The complete phylogeny of pangolins: scaling up resources for the molecular tracing of the most trafficked mammals on Earth.

scientific article

The initial response of females towards congeneric males matches the propensity to hybridise in Ophthalmotilapia

scientific article published in 2022

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

The phylogeography of the rodent genusMalacomyssuggests multiple Afrotropical Pleistocene lowland forest refugia

The presence of Praomys, Lophuromys, and Deomys species (Muridae, Mammalia) in the forest blocks separated by the Congo River and its tributaries (Kisangani region, Democratic Republic of Congo)

scientific article published in January 2008

The role of dispersal and vicariance in the Pleistocene history of an East African mountain rodent,Praomys delectorum

Urban rats as carriers of invasive Salmonella Typhimurium sequence type 313, Kisangani, Democratic Republic of Congo

scientific article published in 2022

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