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Historical biogeography at the crossroads of the northern continents: molecular phylogenetics of red-backed voles (Rodentia: Arvicolinae)Joseph A Cook
Department of Biological Sciences, Idaho State University, Pocatello, 83209 8007, USA
Mol Phylogenet Evol 30:767-77. 2004..Finally, C. gapperi, appears to be comprised of an eastern and a western species, the former with affinities to the Asian C. glareolus and the latter more closely related to C. californicus...
Hares on ice: phylogeography and historical demographics of Lepus arcticus, L. othus, and L. timidus (Mammalia: Lagomorpha)Eric Waltari
Department of Biological Sciences, Idaho State University, Pocatello, ID 83209 8007, USA
Mol Ecol 14:3005-16. 2005..othus persisted in two separate North American arctic refugia (Beringia and High Canadian Arctic) during glacial advances of the Pleistocene, while the high genetic diversity in L. timidus likely reflects multiple Eurasian refugia...
Historic hybridization and persistence of a novel mito-nuclear combination in red-backed voles (genus Myodes)Amy M Runck
Department of Biological Sciences, Idaho State University, Pocatello, Idaho 83209, USA
BMC Evol Biol 9:114. 2009..We establish the history, geographic extent and directionality of hybridization, determine whether hybridization is ongoing, and assess the evolutionary stability of novel genomic combinations...
Postglacial expansion of the southern red-backed vole (Clethrionomys gapperi) in North AmericaAmy M Runck
Department of Biological Sciences, Idaho State University, Pocatello, ID 83209 8007, USA
Mol Ecol 14:1445-56. 2005..Molecular variation observed in this population may be the result of leading edge population diversifying in the continental corridor or may reflect the signal of a high latitude refugial population...
Genetic footprints of demographic expansion in North America, but not Amazonia, during the Late QuaternaryEnrique P Lessa
Laboratorio de Evolución, Facultad de Ciencias, Casilla 12106, Montevideo 11300, Uruguay
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 100:10331-4. 2003..Thus, demographic responses to climate change can be tracked genetically and appear to vary substantially across the latitudinal gradient of biotic diversity...
Phylogeography of the deer mouse (Peromyscus maniculatus) provides a predictive framework for research on hantavirusesJerry W Dragoo
Department of Biology, Museum of Southwestern Biology, The University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131, USA
J Gen Virol 87:1997-2003. 2006....
Molecular evolution of Holarctic martens (genus Martes, Mammalia: Carnivora: Mustelidae)Karen D Stone
University of Alaska Museum, Fairbanks, AK 99775, USA
Mol Phylogenet Evol 24:169-79. 2002....
Post-glacial colonization of northwestern North America by the forest-associated American marten (Martes americana, Mammalia: Carnivora: Mustelidae)Karen D Stone
University of Alaska Museum, 907 Yukon Drive, Fairbanks, Alaska 99775, USA
Mol Ecol 11:2049-63. 2002..This recurrent pattern of relatively restricted western, or Pacific coastal, lineages and more widespread eastern, or interior continental, lineages exists across broad taxonomic groups and suggests a shared biogeographical history...
Genetic consequences of Pleistocene glaciations for the tundra vole (Microtus oeconomus) in BeringiaKurt E Galbreath
Department of Biology and Wildlife, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK 99775, USA
Mol Ecol 13:135-48. 2004....
Phylogeography of endemic ermine (Mustela erminea) in southeast AlaskaMelissa A Fleming
University of Alaska Museum, 907 Yukon Drive Fairbanks, Alaska 99775 6960, USA
Mol Ecol 11:795-807. 2002..Studies of nuclear genes and adaptive morphological evolution are necessary to further explore discrepancies between the geographical pattern of differentiation based on mtDNA and the existing subspecific taxonomy based on morphology...
American marten (Martes americana) in the Pacific Northwest: population differentiation across a landscape fragmented in time and spaceMaureen P Small
WDFW, Genetics Division, 600 Capitol Way N, Olympia, WA 98501 1091, USA
Mol Ecol 12:89-103. 2003..e. rising sea level), as opposed to isolation-by-distance; oceanic straits pose significant barriers to gene flow among M. caurina populations and between populations of M. caurina and M. americana...
Host associations of the tick, Ixodes angustus (Acari: Ixodidae), on Alaskan mammalsBrian P Murrell
Department of Biology, and Institute of Arthropodology and Parasitology, Georgia Southern University, P.O. Box 8056, Statesboro, GA 30460, USA
J Med Entomol 40:682-5. 2003..The leptinid mammal-nest beetle Leptinus occidentamericanus Peck (1 male, 5 females) was also recovered from five individual small mammals; three of these were C. rutilus...
Fay and Rausch 1969 revisited: Babesia microti in Alaskan small mammalsHeidi K Goethert
Division of Infectious Diseases, Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine, Tufts University, North Grafton, Massachusetts 01536, USA
J Parasitol 92:826-31. 2006..Sequence analysis of the 18S rDNA gene demonstrates that Alaskan B. microti comprises a clade that infects microtines in several sites across North America and is distinct from a clade that is zoonotic...
Geographic and host range of the nematode Soboliphyme baturini across BeringiaAnson V A Koehler
Department of Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131, USA
J Parasitol 93:1070-83. 2007..baturini found in the stomachs of mustelids at the same locations in both Asia and North America, corroborating a role in transmission for species of Sorex...
Hantavirus in northern short-tailed shrew, United StatesSatoru Arai
University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii 96813, USA
Emerg Infect Dis 13:1420-3. 2007..To our knowledge, this is the first evidence of hantaviruses harbored by shrews in the Americas...
Phylogenetically distinct hantaviruses in the masked shrew (Sorex cinereus) and dusky shrew (Sorex monticolus) in the United StatesSatoru Arai
John A Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawai i at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawai i 96813, USA
Am J Trop Med Hyg 78:348-51. 2008..Also, studies now underway are aimed at clarifying the epizootiology and pathogenicity of these new members of the genus Hantavirus...
