Lisbon - Portugal

Behaviour:

 

 

• Food intake in wood mouse (Apodemus sylvaticus) under different degrees of predation risk by red fox (Vulpes vulpes)

Beatriz Sánchez-Góme1, Isabel Barja and Álvaro Navarro-Castilla

 

• Daily activity patterns of hamster species differ in the laboratory and the field - new data from Mesocricetus raddei

Peter Fritzsche, Maria V. Ushakova, Magomed M. Chunkov, Kamil Z. Omarov, Dietmar Weinert and Alexey V. Surov

 

• Behaviour of striped field mice as ant hunters and ant-hill eaters

Sofia Panteleeva and Zhanna Reznikova

 

• No expression of magnetic compass orientation in the bank vole (Myodes glareolus) in total darkness

Monika Novakova, Ludmila Oliveriusova, Frantisek Sedlacek

 

• Direct and indirect cues modulate foraging activity and food intake in wood mice (Apodemus sylvaticus)

Álvaro Navarro-Castilla, Isabel Barja and Mario Díaz

 

• SOCIAL ORGANIZATION OF THE MONGOLIAN VOLE, MICROTUS MONGOLICUS

Polina S. Dontsova and Antonina V.Smorkatcheva

 

• The relationship between daily activity and behavioural display in open field test and elevated plus maze in common voles (Microtus arvalis)

Gabriela Urbankova, Nella Mladenkova and Frantisek Sedlacek

 

• Reproductive isolation between two pine vole sister species, Microtus duodecimcostatus and M. lusitanicus

Ana. M. Cerveira, Joana A. Soares, Maria da Luz Mathias, Cristiane Bastos-Silveira

 

 

Conservation

 

• Detection of suitable habitat to take conservation precautions for Acomys cilicicus

Banu Kaya Özdemire1, Muhsin Çoğal, Ortaç Çetintaş, Ferhat Matur and Mustafa Sözen

 

• The study of density estimation and habitation condition of Tokudaia spp, in Ryukyu Islands, Japan

Takamichi Jogahara, Chihiro Koshimoto, Shin-suke Sakamoto, Tasuku Mitani3, Masataka Nakaya, Asato Kuroiwa, Fumio Yamada

 

• From extinct to extant: public participation in the Eurasian red squirrel survey

Rita Gomes Rocha, Bianca Pinto Vieira, Carlos Fonseca

 

• Rodents of Caatinga: a review of their Ecology and Conservation

Rebeca M. F. Barreto and Lena Geise

 

• Study of the genetic diversity of the Ryukyu long-furred rat (Diplothrix legata)

Haruka Doe and Takamichi Doe

 

• Cataloguing biodiversity in Mozambique: survey, identification and barcode of wild rodents

Iara Gomes, Luís Neves and Cristiane Bastos-Silveira

 

 

Ecology

 

• The data base of publications and materials on rodents of Eastern Europe

Emelianova, L.

 

• Mast Pulses and rodent trophic Interactions in a Primeval Forest

Ainara Cortés-Avizanda, Nuria Selva, Keith A. Hobson, Andrzej Zalewski, & José Antonio Donázar

 

• Common vole Microtus arvalis obscurus (Arvicolinae, Rodentia) in the Urals: chromosomal instability and accumulation of heavy metals (Cu, Zn, Cd, Pb) in liver

Lidia E. Yalkovskaya, Evgenia A. Markova and Svetlana V. Mukhacheva

 

• Microhabitat selection for caching and use of potential landmarks for seed recovery by the Azara's agouti (Dasyprocta azarae)

Juliana F. Ribeiro and Emerson M. Vieira

 

• How Thrichomys laurentius (Echimyidae) uses the tree stratum in the Caatinga shrub savanna vegetation

Rebeca Mascarenhas F. Barreto; Lena Geise; Jaranna T. C. Barbosa, Renato Garcia Rodriguez

 

• Muskrat (Ondatra zibethicus) feeding on molluscs at the Valaam Archipelago islands

Sokolovskaya Maria, Agafonova Elena

 

• Distribution Area of Turkish Spiny Mouse Acomys Cilicicus

Ortaç ÇETİNTAŞ, Ferhat MATUR and Mustafa SÖZEN

 

• Impact of the giant mole rat (Tachyoryctes macrocephalus) on Afroalpine ecosystem

Jan Šklíba, Matěj Lövy, Tereza Vlasatá, Ema Hrouzková, Claudio Stillero-Zubiri2 and Radim Šumbera

 

• The return of the squirrel. A multiscale analysis of red squirrel presence in a recently colonized pine forest area.

Silva, C., Eufrázio, S., Salgueiro, P.A., Medinas, D. , Silva, A., Sá, C., Mira, A.

 

• Habitat factors influencing the structure of rodent communities at local and regional scale in Transylvania (Romania)

Ana Maria Benedek and Ioan Sîrbu

 

• Consumption of hypogeous fungi by rodents in Pilicka Forest (Central Poland)

Małgorzata Połatyńska

 

• Inter-individual dental microwear patterns and dietary variation in Clethrionomys glareolus (Arvicolinae; Rodentia)

Fominykh M., Zykov S.

 

• Impact on the environmental factors on the occurrence and diversity of small mammals in Slovakia

Imrich Jakab, Ivan Baláž

 

• Home range utilization patterns and movements in flying squirrel in urban forests

Sanna Mäkeläinen, Henjo de Knegt, Otso Ovaskainen, Ilpo K. Hanski

 

• Differences in small-mammal and stand structures between unburned and burned pine stands subjected to two different post-fire silvicultural management practices

Eun-Jae Lee

 

• Analysis of seasonal movements and home range size of Korean Field Mouse Apodemus peninsulae using ArcGIS in unburned and post-fire pine planted stands within a pine forest, Korea

Jung-Hee Sagong and Eun-Jae Lee

 

• Aggregation of bank voles and ural field mice settlements in forests of Moscow region.

Tatyana V. Putilova, Igor A. Zhigarev and Vasiliy V. Alpatov

 

• Adaptation of Small Rodent Populations to Environment Pessimization in Northern Conditions

Elena G. Shadrina, Yakov L.Vol'pert

 

 

 

• Influence of Natural Gas Extraction on Small Mammal Population of the Vilyui River Valley (West Yakutia)

Elena G. Shadrina, Michail M. Sidorov, Vasily A. Danilov

 

• Slope, the final frontier? Are Apodemus sylvaticus movements constrained by 20m slopes in a rehabilitated quarry?

Silva, C., Eufrázio, S., Salgueiro, P.A., Medinas, D., Salgueiro, V., Silva, A., Mira, A.

 

• Efficiency of Eurasian red squirrel (Sciurus vulgaris L.) drey and individual distance sampling in Portugal

Bianca Pinto Vieira, Rita Gomes Rocha, Carlos Fonseca

 

• Diversity of small mammals at different spatial scales in the Cerrado of Central Brazil

Juliana F, Ribeiro and Emerson M. Vieira

 

 

 

Evolution

 

• Cross-species chromosome painting in Oligoryzomys (Cricetidae, Sigmodontinae): complex rearrangements in the karyotype evolution of the genus

Camilla Bruno Di-Nizo, Karen Ventura, Malcolm Andrew Ferguson-Smith, Patricia Caroline Mary O’Brien, Yatiyo Yonenaga-Yassuda, Maria José de J. Silva

 

• Rodents from the Late Miocene – Early Pliocene of Mallorca (Balearic Islands, western Mediterranean Sea)

E. Torres, P. Bover, J. Agustí & J.A. Alcover

 

• New morphological and molecular evidences to the full species status of Sicista subtilis trizona

Tamás Cserkész, Mikhail Rusin, Dávid Czabán, Tamás Kondor, Gábor Sramkó

 

• Post-copulatory sexual selection and the evolution of reproductive genes in rodents

Alberto Vicens, Lena Lüke, Maximiliano Tourmente, Eduardo R. S. Roldan

 

• Distinctiveness of hybrid zones in Israeli mole rats Nannospalax (Spalacidae, Rodentia)

Ivanitskaya E., Rashkovetsky L. and Nevo E

 

• Differences in sperm traits associated to sperm competition between rodent natural populations

M. Tourmente, J.J. Luque-Larena, Eduardo R. S. Roldan

 

 

Morphometrics

 

 

• Taxonomy and biogeography of genus Allactaga

Zeycan Helvacı, Sabrina Renaud, Güliz Yavuz and Ercüment Çolak

 

• The evolutionary/systematic implication of skull variation in Akodon (Rodentia, Cricetidae, Sigmodontinae)

Lena Geise and Gabriel Marroi

 

• Geographic variation in cranium and mandible measurements of Oecomys roberti (Thomas, 1904) (Rodentia, Cricetidae, Sigmodontinae)

Raul Fonseca, Diego Astúa and Lena Geise

 

• Morphometric Analysis of A. amphibius populations from Turkey

Perinçek Seçkinozan Şeker, Teoman Kankılıç, Engin Selvi, Bülent Gözcelioğlu, Ercüment Çolak

 

• A comparative study of the C.rufocanus and C.rex enamel microstructure

Zykov S., Fominykh M., Borodin A., Tiunov M.

 

• Microwear patterns on the enamel of bunodont molars: a case study of Sylvaemus uralensis Pall., 1811(Muridae, Rodentia)

Zykov S.

 

 

Parasites & Diseases

 

• INTRINSIC AND EXTRINSIC FACTORS AFFECTING MACRO-PARASITE FAUNA OF THE RED SQUIRREL: DOES HABITAT QUALITY AND FRAGMENTATION AFFECT PARASITE ABUNDANCE OR PREVALENCE?

Francesca Santicchia, Lucas Wauters, Claudia Romeo, Nicola Ferrari, Adriano Martinoli

 

• Beneficial responses to stomach worms in cotton rat populations

Robert K. Rose and A. Scott Bellows

 

• DETERMINATION OF RABIES (LYSSAVIRUS) ON APODEMUS SP. AND MYODES GLAREOLUS (MAMMALIA: RODENTIA) FROM ZONGULDAK

Tuğçe CEYLAN, Ferhat MATUR and İ. Mehmet Ali ÖKTEM

 

• A SURVEY OF ECTOPARASITES INFESTING HOUSE MICE (MUS MUSCULUS)) AT HAIL REGION, KINGDOM OF SAUDI ARABIA

Eitimad H. Abdel Rahman, Monif AlRashidi, Afaf Saaed, Mohanad Abdelgadir

 

 

Phylogeography &Phylogenetics

 

• Western and Eastern allopatric lines of striped field mouse (Apodemus agrarius): comparative study based on fragment analysis of 5 microsatellite loci

Liubov Frisman and Alexey Bogdanov

 

• Phylogeography of Microtus maximowiczii  from the Russia

Irina Sheremetyeva and Irina Kartavtseva

 

• Multilocus study of Turkish ground squirrels

Duygu Tiryaki, Sadık Demirtas, Coskun Tez, Hakan Gür, Maarit Jaarola, Stepanka Říčanová, Islam Gunduz and Josef Bryja

 

• Testing hypothesis of two subspecies of striped field mouse (Apodemus agrarius) in Korea using polymorphic microsatellite markers

Hanna Kim, Yeong-Seok Jo and Jongwoo Jung

 

• Population genetic structure and genetic diversity of Eurasian red squirrel (Sciurus vulgaris) in East Asia

Seo-Jin Lee, Mu-Yeong Lee, Inna Voloshina, Mi-Sook Min, and Hang Lee

 

• Mitochondrial Cytb Diversity in Turkish Specimens of Meriones tristrami (Rodentia: Gerbillinae) Using RFLP

Nuri Yiğit, Ercüment Çolak, Derya Çetintürk, Perinçek Seçkin Ozan Şeker, Engin Selvi, Karsten Neumann, Fulya Saygılı

 

• Mitochondrial phylogeny of Arvicola amphibius from Turkey

Perinçek Seçkinozan Şeker and Ercüment Çolak

 

• May dispersal of Acomys cilicicus give clues about human activities in the Mediterranean Basin in the Lower Paleolithic?

Ferhat Matur, Ortaç Çetintaş and Mustafa Sözen

 

• Coalescent strategies of species delimitation in the genus Oecomys (Rodentia: Sigmodontinae: Oryzomyni)

Elkin Y. Suárez-Villota and Maria J.J. Silva

 

• Phylogenetic relationships of Eastern Europe dormice

Grigoryeva O.O , Orlov V.N.

 

• Taxonomical interpretation of the phylogeny of the forest dormouse Dryomys nitedula (Pallas, 1778) (Gliridae, Rodentia) in Russian plain and the Caucasus

Grigoryeva O.O., Orlov V.N

 

• Partial sequence analysis of pituitary FSHβ and LHβ and testicular LHcgR mRNA of desert rodent the Libyan Jird (Meriones libycus)

Radia Boufermes, Nicolas Richard, Karen Le Moguen, Zaina Amirat, Farida Khammar and Marie Laure Kottler

 

• Mitochondrial DNA variability in Microtus arvalis obscurus (Arvicolinae; Rodentia) and its relation to paleogeographic and fossil data

Sibiryakov P.A., Yalkovskaya L.E., Semerikov V.L., Markova E.A.

 

• Comparative phylogeography of species of wild habitats East Asia

Irina Sheremetyeva

 

• European origin of functional haemoglobin mutation related to population replacement in British bank voles (Clethrionomys glareolus)

Michaela Strážnická, Silvia Marková, Jeremy B. Searle, Petr Kotlík

 

• Old views and new insights – taxonomic revision of the Bukovina blind mole rat, Spalax graecus (Rodentia: Spalacidae)

Attila Németh, Zalán Gábor Homonnay, Virág Krizsik, Máté Csorba, Tomás Pavlicek, Zsolt Hegyeli, Yarin Hadid, Szilárd Sugár, János Farkas, Gábor Csorba

 

 

Physiology and Development

 

• What is important for the quality of sperm and sexual behavior of commensal and free-living taxa of Mus musculus s.l. species group?

Alexandr Ambaryan, Aleksei Maltsev and Elena Kotenkova

 

• Physiological Responses in Hydrated Gerbil

Leila Saadi and Nemcha Lebaili

 

• Seasonal expression of transgelin in seminal vesicles from Psammomys obesus, Meriones libycus, Meriones crassus and Meriones shawi

Kaci-Ouchfoun Naïma, Izemrane Djamila and Gernigon-Spychalowiczs Thérèse

 

• 3,4-DIHYDROISOQUINOLIN-2(1H)-SULFONAMIDE: THERAPEUTIC EFFECTS AGAINST, HEPATIC, PANCREATIC AND RENAL INJURIES IN ALLOXAN-INDUCED DIABETES IN RATS

Yassine Reggami, Hajira Berredjem, Malika Berredjem & Noureddine Bouzerna

 

• Immunolocalization of androgen and estrogen receptors in the Saharan rodent, Meriones lybicus testis: effects of seasonal variations

A. Keddache, N. Aknoun, E. Moudilou , Y. Zatra, Z. Amirat, J-M. Exbrayat and F. Khammar

 

• AMPK-mediated translational supression in hibernating chipmunk brain

Shintaro Yamada, Tsuneo Sekijima, Nobuyuki Takei

 

• Androgens regulate pituitary corticotroph cells in the Sahara desert rodent Meriones libycus

Aknoun-Sail, N., Zatra, Y., Keddache, A., Khammar, F., Exbrayat, J.M. and Amirat, Z.

 

• Matrix metalloproteinases immunodetection in the vas deferens of the Libyan jird (Meriones libycus)

Mansouria Belhocine  and Thérèse Gernigon-Spychalowicz

 

• Antihypoglycaemic property of a novel N-acylsulfonamide in streptozotocin-induced diabetic rats

Berredjem Hajira, Reggami Yassine, Benlaifa Meriem, Berredjem Malika and Aouf Noureddine

 

• Intra-specific variation of hibernation style in Siberian Chipmunk Tamias sibiricus.

Taito Kamata, Noriaki Kondo and Tsuneo Sekijima

 

• Liver alterations in sand rats (Psammomys obesus) subjected to methionine

Ghoul A. ; Kaci N. ; Khedis L. ; Chaouad B.; Zerrouk F.; Cherifi M. ; Othmani-Mecif K.; Aouichat-Bouguerra S.; Benazzoug Y.

 

• Variation in sperm parameters among Mus species during preparation for fertilization

Ester Sansegundo Hernando, Maximiliano Tourmente, Eduardo R. S. Roldan

 

 

• Protective role of 20-Hydroxyecdysone (20E) in deserticol rodent submitted to high carbohydrates diet – Adrenal gland’s morphological study.

Zineb Bellahreche, Hadjer Agoun, Soumia Hamadi, Maha Medjerab,  Nesrine Semiane, Aicha Mallek, Mouhamed Abdelali, Ali Khalkhal And Yasmina Dahmani

 

• Histological and macroscopic study of the genesis of the digestive tract of the east European vole (Microtus levis)

Maki Doe, Takamichi Doe and Sen-ichi Doe

 

• Be alone or not to be alone? Is that the question for giant mole rats?

Nella Mladenkova, Radim Sumbera, Frantisek Sedlacek and Jan Riegert

 

 

Rodent Management

 

• BRINGING BACK SCIURUS VULGARIS WHERE IT BELONGS: A ROADMAP OF ACTIVITIES ON THE INTRODUCED CALLOSCIURUS ERYTHRAEUS IN ITALY.

Mazzamuto M.V., Morandini M., Panzeri M., Molinari A., Wauters L.A., Preatoni D.G., Martinoli A.

 

• The use of olfactory cues on food selection by female rodents

Sabine C. Hansen, Caroline Stolter, Jörg U. Ganzhorn, Jens Jacob

 

• Estimating population density of rodents in a deserted island and its variation along the year - Situation of mice and rats in Santa Luzia, Cabo Verde

Isabel Rodrigues, J. Oliveira,T. Melo and P. Geraldes

 

• Rat Eradications on Tropical Islands-The Monito Island Experience

García, Miguel Antonio