BACKGROUND The native rodents of Australia are commonly divided into two groups based on the time of their colonization of the Sahulian continent, which encompasses Australia, New Guinea, and the adjacent islands. The first group, the "old endemics," is a diverse assemblage of 34 genera that are descended from a single colonization of the continent during the Pliocene. A second group, the "new ...

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The Italian endemic vascular flora is composed of 1,286 specific and subspecific taxa. From the critical analysis of "Chrobase.it", 711 of them (about 55%) have been studied from a karyological point of view. These taxa belong to 52 out of 56 families and 204 out of 284 genera. These data suggest that endemic species are more studied than the flora as a whole. Mean chromosome number for Italian...

UNLABELLED Botanical work since 2008 on the Sleeping Giant section of the Kamdebooberge (Sneeuberg mountain complex, Eastern Cape, South Africa) has indicated that these mountains may be of significant conservation value. Accordingly, a precursory, rapid multi-disciplinary biodiversity assessment was undertaken in January 2011, focusing on plants, tetrapod vertebrates and leafhoppers. The botan...

The biodiversity crisis, particularly dramatic in freshwaters, has prompted further setting of global and regional conservation priorities. Species rarity and endemism are among the most fundamental criteria for establishing these priorities. We studied the patterns of rarity and the role of rare species in community uniqueness using data on freshwater bivalve molluscs (family Unionidae) in Tex...

The old endemic rodents of Australia and New Guinea (Sahul) represent one or more large adaptive radiations including novel morphological adaptations to aquatic, arboreal, hopping, and arid ecologies. Four tribes recognized among the Sahulian old endemics (Hydromini, Conilurini, Anisomyini, and Uromyini) reflect distinct biogeographic and ecomorphological hypotheses about diversification within...

We present the diversity of Asteraceae in Arequipa Region southern Peru, an area strongly influenced by volcanism, which has given rise to different soil types and determined a very wide bioclimatic vegetational zonation. distribution endemisms Peru Arequipa, dry puna. For this purpose, we have used methodology Rivas-Martínez, characteristic soils each collection point, distance localities from...

Brucellosis is a zoonotic disease transmitted to humans by animals infected with Brucella species. Brucella species are facultative intracellular bacteria consisting of aerobic gram-negative coccobacilli. Eight species of Brucella have been identified, including B. melitensis, B. abor-tus, B. suis, B. canis, B. ovis, B. neotomae, B. ceti, and B. pinnipe-dialis. 3 The three major pathogens causi...