Mus musculus (Rodentia: Muridae) has generally been infected with a rodent hookworm Nippostrongylus brasiliensis. In this report, we present morphological and molecular identification of N. brasiliensis by light and scanning electron microscopy and PCR amplification of mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase subunit 1 (cox1) gene and the protein sequences encoded by cox1 gene, respectively. Despite ...

Murine rodents represent a highly diverse group, which displays great ecological versatility. In the present paper we analyse the relationship between dental morphology, on one hand, using geometric morphometrics based upon the outline of first upper molar and the dietary preference of extant murine genera, on the other. This ecomorphological study of extant murine rodents demonstrates that die...

Abstract We used DNA metabarcoding to assess the seasonal diets of large Japanese wood mouse, Apodemus speciosus (Muridae, Rodentia), in forest edges adjacent citrus orchards on Innoshima Island, Japan. one chloroplast and three mitochondrial barcoding markers determine mouse diets. Among various plant invertebrate diets, A. typically consumed Chinese cork oak ( Quercus variabilis ) early sprin...

Karyotypes of Hapalomys delacouri (Rodentia, Muridae) and Typhlomys cinereus (Rodentia, Platacanthomyidae) from Vietnam are described for the first time. The diploid karyotype of Hapalomys delacouri is 38 (NFa=48), consisting of six pairs of bi-armed and 12 pairs of acrocentric autosomes decreasing in size; plus a large metacentric X chromosome and Y chromosome, also metacentric, that is equal ...

A 401-bp fragment of the mitochondrial cytochrome b gene was sequenced from polymerase chain reaction-amplified products for 20 natural populations representing 12 species of South American akodontine rodents (Muridae). Variation among these taxa increased with their hierarchical position, from comparisons within local populations to those among different genera. Two individuals from the same l...

This study compares the colonisation patterns of the field mouse Apodemus sylvaticus (Muridae) and its parasite Heligmosomoides polygyrus (Heligmosomoidea) in 8 Western Mediterranean islands. Respectively 690 bp and 501 bp of the mitochondrial cytochrome b gene were sequenced in 44 H. polygyrus and 49 A. sylvaticus. The results reveal the congruence between both species’ insular Mediterranean c...

The phylogeny and phylogeography of the Old World wood mice (subgenus Sylvaemus, genus Apodemus, Muridae) are well-documented. Nevertheless, the distributions of species, such as A. fulvipectus and A. ponticus remain dubious, as well as their phylogenetic relationships with A. sylvaticus. We analysed samples of Apodemus spp. across Europe using the mitochondrial cytochrome-b gene (cyt-b) and co...