Crown structure of the maxillary molars in the Japanese shrew mole, Urotrichus talpoides (Insectivora, Talpidae).

Comparative Morphology of the Papillae Linguales and their Connective Tissue Cores in the Tongue of the Greater Japanese Shrew-mole, Urotrichus talpoides

The external morphology of the papillae linguales (papillae filiformes, papillae fungiformes and papillae vallatae) and their connective tissue cores (CTCs) of the greater Japanese shrew-mole (Urotrichus talpoides) were analysed by optical and scanning electron microscopy. Papillae filiformes were distributed over the dorsal surface of the apex linguae, and on the rostral and caudal regions of ...

Phylogenetic positions of insectivora in eutheria inferred from mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase subunit II gene.

For the elucidation of the phylogenetic position of insectivora in eutheria, we have sequenced the cytochrome c oxidase subunit II (COII) gene of mitochondria for three insectivoran species [musk screw (Suncus murinus), shrew mole (Urotrichus talpoides), Japanese mole (Mogera wogura)] and analyzed these amino acid sequences with neighbor-joining (NJ) method and maximum likelihood (ML) method. N...

Some nematodes of the Japanese shrew mole, Urotrichus talpoides Temminck.

Parasites of the Japanese shrew mole, Urotrichus talpoides temminck.

Major category: Biological Sciences Minor category: Medical Sciences Title: Molecular phylogeny of a newfound hantavirus in the Japanese shrew mole (Urotrichus talpoides) Running title: Hantavirus in the Japanese Shrew Mole Authors:

Recent molecular evidence of genetically distinct hantaviruses in shrews, captured in widely separated geographical regions, corroborates decades-old reports of hantavirus antigens in shrew tissues. Apart from challenging the conventional view that rodents are the principal reservoir hosts, the newly identified soricid-borne hantaviruses raise the possibility that other soricomorphs, notably ta...