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A Megadiverse Fauna Revealed

A Review of Microhydromys (Rodentia: Murinae), with Description of a New Species from Southern New Guinea ⬇️

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A Review ofPeroryctes broadbenti, the Giant Bandicoot of Papua New Guinea ⬇️

scientific article published in September 2010

A diverse assemblage of monotremes (Monotremata) from the Cenomanian Lightning Ridge fauna of New South Wales, Australia

scholarly article (2024)

A gene-tree test of the traditional taxonomy of American deer: the importance of voucher specimens, geographic data, and dense sampling

scientific article published on 14 September 2017

A new genus for a rare African vespertilionid bat: insights from South Sudan ⬇️

scientific article published on 5 April 2013

A new genus of rodent from Wallacea (Rodentia: Muridae: Murinae: Rattini), and its implication for biogeography and Indo-Pacific Rattini systematics

scientific article

A new giant shrew rat (Rodentia, Muridae, Murinae) from Flores, Indonesia and a comparative investigation of its ecomorphology

scientific article published on 13 December 2023

A new species of Halmaheramys (Rodentia: Muridae) from Bisa and Obi Islands (North Maluku Province, Indonesia)

scientific article published in February 2018

A new species of bandicoot, Microperoryctes aplini, from western New Guinea

scientific article published in October 2004

A replacement name for the endemic Rattus (Muridae, Mammalia) of the island of Obi, Indonesia

scientific article published on 15 May 2024

A review of the rodent fauna of Seram, Moluccas, with the description of a new subspecies of mosaic-tailed rat, Melomys rufescens paveli

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A standard for species ⬇️

scientific article published on September 30, 2010

Adaptation and conservation insights from the koala genome

scientific article published on 02 July 2018

Beyond dead trees: integrating the scientific process in the Biodiversity Data Journal

scientific article

Biodiversity in Sri Lanka and the Western Ghats

scientific article published in Science

Biogeography and taxonomy of extinct and endangered monk seals illuminated by ancient DNA and skull morphology

scientific article published on 14 May 2014

Biology Needs a Modern Assessment System for Professional Productivity ⬇️

scientific article published in August 2011

Caribbean Myotis (Chiroptera, Vespertilionidae), with description of a new species from Trinidad and Tobago

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Chapter 8. Biodiversity and Biogeography of the Moss-mice of New Guinea: A Taxonomic Revision of Pseudohydromys (Muridae: Murinae)

scholarly article by Kristofer M. Helgen & Lauren E Helgen published 15 December 2009 in Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History

Comment on “A global environmental crisis 42,000 years ago”

scientific article

Comparative Phylogeography of Forest-Dependent Mammals Reveals Paleo-Forest Corridors throughout Sundaland

scientific article published on 01 March 2019

Comprehensive profiling of retroviral integration sites using target enrichment methods from historical koala samples without an assembled reference genome

scientific article

Context-Dependent Effects of Largewildlife Declines on Small-Mammal Communities in Central Kenya

scholarly article by Hillary S. Young et al published January 2015 in Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America

Context-dependent effects of large-wildlife declines on small-mammal communities in central Kenya

scientific article published on March 2015

Craniodental Characters in the Taxonomy of Propithecus

Declines in large wildlife increase landscape-level prevalence of rodent-borne disease in Africa

scientific article (publication date: 13 May 2014)

Description of a new species of Hoolock gibbon (Primates: Hylobatidae) based on integrative taxonomy

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Dire wolves were the last of an ancient New World canid lineage

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Diversity, distribution, and conservation of endemic island rodents

scholarly article

Drivers of Intensity and Prevalence of Flea Parasitism on Small Mammals in East African Savanna Ecosystems.

scientific article published on 29 January 2015

Each flying fox on its own branch: a phylogenetic tree for Pteropus and related genera (Chiroptera: Pteropodidae).

scientific article

Echolocation Calls, Diet, and Phylogenetic Relationships of Stoliczka's Trident Bat, Aselliscus stoliczkanus (Hipposideridae)

scholarly article by Gang Li et al published June 2007 in Journal of Mammalogy

Ecological and evolutionary significance of sizes of giant extinct kangaroos

article published in 2006

Effects of land use on plague (Yersinia pestis) activity in rodents in Tanzania

scientific article

Effects of mammalian herbivore declines on plant communities: observations and experiments in an African savanna

scientific article (publication date: July 2013)

Efficient cross-species capture hybridization and next-generation sequencing of mitochondrial genomes from noninvasively sampled museum specimens

scientific article (publication date: October 2011)

Endogenous Gibbon Ape Leukemia Virus Identified in a Rodent (Melomys burtoni subsp.) from Wallacea (Indonesia).

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Evidence for multiple species of Sunda colugo

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Evolution. The mammal family tree

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Evolutionary history of endemic Sulawesi squirrels constructed from UCEs and mitogenomes sequenced from museum specimens

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Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence: a comment on Cozzuol et al. (2013): Fig. 1

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Generic revision in the Holarctic ground squirrel genus Spermophilus ⬇️

scientific article published on 14 April 2009

Genetic Structure and Diversity Among Historic and Modern Populations of the Sumatran Rhinoceros (Dicerorhinus sumatrensis)

scholarly article by Jessica R Brandt published in May 2018

Genetic diversity and population structure of the endangered marsupial Sarcophilus harrisii (Tasmanian devil)

scientific article

Genome sequence, population history, and pelage genetics of the endangered African wild dog (Lycaon pictus).

scientific article

Genome-wide Evidence Reveals that African and Eurasian Golden Jackals Are Distinct Species

scientific article

Genomic analysis reveals hidden biodiversity within colugos, the sister group to primates

scientific article

Global trends and biases in new mammal species discoveries ⬇️

scholarly article published in 2007

Hepatozoon parasites (Apicomplexa: Adeleorina) in bats

scientific article

Historically low mitochondrial DNA diversity in koalas (Phascolarctos cinereus)

scientific article published in 2012

Host reproductive cycle influences the pouch microbiota of wild southern hairy-nosed wombats (Lasiorhinus latifrons)

scientific article

Host-Parasite Associations in Small Mammal Communities in Semiarid Savanna Ecosystems of East Africa

scientific article

Hybridization capture reveals evolution and conservation across the entire Koala retrovirus genome

scientific article

Impacts of Inference Method and Data set Filtering on Phylogenomic Resolution in a Rapid Radiation of Ground Squirrels (Xerinae: Marmotini)

scientific article published on 01 March 2019

In-solution hybridization for mammalian mitogenome enrichment: pros, cons and challenges associated with multiplexing degraded DNA.

scientific article published on 28 July 2015

Interacting effects of land use and climate on rodent-borne pathogens in central Kenya

scientific article

Introgression, hominin dispersal and megafaunal survival in Late Pleistocene Island Southeast Asia

scientific article

Large wildlife removal drives immune defence increases in rodents

scientific article published in 2015

Mentawai’s endemic, relictual fauna: is it evidence for Pleistocene extinctions on Sumatra?

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Mesozoic origin for West Indian insectivores

scientific article

Meyer paper: don't hang the Soc. Wash. out to dry

scientific article published in Nature

Mitochondrial phylogenomics of modern and ancient equids

scientific article published in 2013

Mitogenomic phylogeny of the Asian colobine genus Trachypithecus with special focus on Trachypithecus phayrei (Blyth, 1847) and description of a new species

scientific article published on 01 November 2020

Molecular Confirmation of the Origin and Invasive Status of West Indian Raccoons

scientific article published in 2008

Molecular and genomic data identify the closest living relative of primates

scientific article

Molecular systematics of the Dendrolagus goodfellowi species group (Marsupialia: Macropodidae)

scientific article published on 15 May 2024

NOTES ON THE PHALANGERID MARSUPIAL GENUS SPILOCUSCUS, WITH DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SPECIES FROM PAPUA

scientific article published in October 2004

New record of Melomys burtoni (Mammalia, Rodentia, Murinae) from Halmahera (North Moluccas, Indonesia): a review of Moluccan Melomys

scholarly article by Pierre-Henri Fabre et al published 22 January 2017 in Mammalia

New records of Microchiroptera (Rhinolophidae and Kerivoulinae) from Vietnam and Thailand

scholarly article by Vu Dinh Thong et al published April 2006 in Acta Chiropterologica

Nomenclature and placental mammal phylogeny

scientific article published in 2010

Notes on mammals collected on the 1885 Geographical Society of Australasia’s Expedition to New Guinea

scientific article published on 26 April 2023

ORIGINAL ARTICLE: Mammals of Borneo - small size on a large island

One Hundred Twenty Years of Koala Retrovirus Evolution Determined from Museum Skins

scientific article published in 2013

One hundred twenty years of koala retrovirus evolution determined from museum skins

scientific article

Outdated taxonomy blocks conservation ⬇️

scientific article published on March 21, 2013

Pacific Flying Foxes (Mammalia: Chiroptera): Two New Species of Pteropus from Samoa, Probably Extinct ⬇️

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Phylogenetic analysis of the tree-kangaroos ( Dendrolagus ) reveals multiple divergent lineages within New Guinea

scientific article published on 25 May 2018

Phylogenetic and morphological significance of an overlooked flying squirrel (Pteromyini, Rodentia) from the eastern Himalayas with the description of a new genus

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Phylogeny, biogeography and systematic revision of plain long-nosed squirrels (genus Dremomys, Nannosciurinae).

scientific article published on 30 October 2015

Phylogeography of the Koala, (Phascolarctos cinereus), and Harmonising Data to Inform Conservation

scientific article

Piecewise disassembly of a large-herbivore community across a rainfall gradient: the UHURU experiment

scientific article (publication date: 2013)

Predators and prey in the Channel Islands

scientific article published in August 2004

RAP Bulletin of Biological Assessment: A Rapid Biodiversity Assessment of the Kaijende Highlands, Enga Province, Papua New Guinea

Range-Wide Snow Leopard Phylogeography Supports Three Subspecies

scientific article

Rediscovery of the long-eared bat genus Nyctophilus (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae) in Timor and a reassessment of Nyctophilus timoriensis

scientific article published on 13 December 2023

Review of Moluccan Rattus (Rodentia: Muridae) with description of four new species

scientific article published on 13 December 2023

Revised distributional estimates for the recently discovered olinguito (Bassaricyon neblina), with comments on natural and taxonomic history

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Sequence variation of koala retrovirus transmembrane protein p15E among koalas from different geographic regions

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Sex biases in bird and mammal natural history collections

scientific article published on 23 October 2019

Shifting mammal communities and declining species richness along an elevational gradient on Mount Kenya

scientific article published in April 2024

Signatures of landscape and captivity in the gut microbiota of Southern Hairy-nosed Wombats (Lasiorhinus latifrons)

Simultaneous identification of host, ectoparasite and pathogen DNA via in-solution capture

scientific article

Species limits and distribution of the Malagasy carnivoran genus Eupleres (Family Eupleridae)

scientific article (publication date: 2010)

Specimen collection: an essential tool

scientific article

Supplementary material 1 from: Gutiérrez EE, Helgen KM, McDonough MM, Bauer F, Hawkins MTR, Escobedo-Morales LA, Patterson BD, Maldonado JE (2017) A gene-tree test of the traditional taxonomy of American deer: the importance of voucher specimens, ge

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Supplementary material 3 from: Gutiérrez EE, Helgen KM, McDonough MM, Bauer F, Hawkins MTR, Escobedo-Morales LA, Patterson BD, Maldonado JE (2017) A gene-tree test of the traditional taxonomy of American deer: the importance of voucher specimens, ge

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Systematic Review of New Guinea Leptomys (Muridae, Murinae) with Descriptions of Two New Species ⬇️

scientific article published in 2008

Systematics of the Pacific monkey‐faced bats (Chiroptera: Pteropodidae), with a new species of Pteralopex and a new Fijian genus

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THE FEATHER-TAILED GLIDER (Acrobates pygmeus) IN NEW GUINEA ⬇️

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Talpid Mole Phylogeny Unites Shrew Moles and Illuminates Overlooked Cryptic Species Diversity.

scientific article

Taxonomic revision of the genus Galictis (Carnivora: Mustelidae): species delimitation, morphological diagnosis, and refined mapping of geographical distribution

scholarly article (2013)

Taxonomic revision of the olingos (Bassaricyon), with description of a new species, the Olinguito

research article

Taxonomic status and conservation relevance of the raccoons (Procyon spp.) of the West Indies

scientific article published in 2003

Taxonomy and Natural History of the Southeast Asian Fruit-Bat GenusDyacopterus

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Taxonomy based on science is necessary for global conservation ⬇️

journal article from 'PLOS Biology' published in 2018

Taxonomy of the Dingo: It’s an ancient dog

Taxonomy, distribution, and natural history of flying foxes (Chiroptera, Pteropodidae) in the Mortlock Islands and Chuuk State, Caroline Islands

scientific article published on 29 October 2013

Temporal shifts in the distribution of murine rodent body size classes at Liang Bua (Flores, Indonesia) reveal new insights into the paleoecology of Homo floresiensis and associated fauna

scientific article published in May 2019

The Dogma of Dingoes—Taxonomic status of the dingo: A reply to Smith et al

scientific article published on 4 March 2019

The Earth BioGenome Project 2020: Starting the clock

scientific article published on 25 January 2022

The Lives of Creatures Obscure, Misunderstood, and Wonderful: A Volume in Honour of Ken Aplin 1958–2019 ⬇️

scientific article published in 2020

The Taxonomic Status of Mazama bricenii and the Significance of the Táchira Depression for Mammalian Endemism in the Cordillera de Mérida, Venezuela

scientific article published in 2015

The Wayward Dog: Is the Australian native dog or Dingo a distinct species?

scientific article published on 4 September 2017

The amphibious murines of New Guinea (Rodentia, Muridae): the generic status of Baiyankamys and description of a new species of Hydromys

scientific article (publication date: 27 March 2005)

The hog-badger is not an edentate: systematics and evolution of the genusArctonyx(Mammalia: Mustelidae)

scientific article published on 26 September 2008

The mammal fauna of Kofiau Island, off western New Guinea

scientific article published on 13 December 2023

The mitochondrial genome sequence of the Tasmanian tiger (Thylacinus cynocephalus)

scientific article published in February 2009

The status of the world's land and marine mammals: diversity, threat, and knowledge

scientific article

The systematic position of Pteropus leucopterus and its bearing on the monophyly and relationships of Pteropus (Chiroptera: Pteropodidae)

The validity of three snow leopard subspecies: response to Senn et al.

scientific article published on 13 February 2018

Trait-specific processes of convergence and conservatism shape ecomorphological evolution in ground-dwelling squirrels

scientific article published on 10 January 2018

Twentieth century occurrence of the Long-Beaked Echidna Zaglossus bruijnii in the Kimberley region of Australia

scientific article published on 28 December 2012

Two new species of Halmaheramys (Murinae: Rattini) from archaeological deposits on Morotai Island, North Moluccas, Indonesia

scientific article published in 2023

Wallacean mammalogy and zooarchaeology: remembrances and a renaissance

scientific article published on 13 December 2023

White-Nose Syndrome Fungus in a 1918 Bat Specimen from France

scientific article published on September 2017

Widespread Denisovan ancestry in Island Southeast Asia but no evidence of substantial super-archaic hominin admixture

scientific article published in 2021

Widespread male sex bias in mammal fossil and museum collections

scientific article published on 03 September 2019

Wing morphology, echolocation calls, diet and emergence time of black-bearded tomb bats (Taphozous melanopogon, Emballonuridae) from southwest China

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