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1. Voles mediate functional trait diversity along a resource gradient

Author:
Larios, Loralee; Maron, John L.
Source:
Functional ecology 2021 v.35 no.1 pp. 205-215
ISSN:
0269-8463
Subject:
voles,   etc   ; dimensions; functional diversity; grasslands; habitats; herbivores; information; leaves; nitrogen; seed weight; California;     Show all 11 Subjects
Abstract:
... Disentangling the effect of multiple ecological processes on plant trait composition is complicated by the fact that both top‐down and bottom‐up processes may affect similar traits. We examined the interacting role of resource variation and vole herbivory on functional trait patterns in an annual California grassland. We manipulated vole herbivory via exclosures at eight grassland sites along a st ...
DOI:
10.1111/1365-2435.13686

2. Giardia microti in pet Microtus guentheri: Evidence of a parasite never detected in Italy

Author:
De Liberato, Claudio; Montalbano Di Filippo, Margherita; Sagrafoli, Daniele; Ferraro, Davide; Guadano Procesi, Isabel; Berrilli, Federica
Source:
Parasitology international 2021 v.80 pp. 102207
ISSN:
1383-5769
Subject:
voles,   etc   ; Giardia lamblia; Giardia microti; Microtus; computer software; feces; fluorescent antibody technique; gravid females; loci; parasites; parasitology; pets; phylogeny; polymerase chain reaction; sequence analysis; statistical analysis; Italy; Netherlands;     Show all 18 Subjects
Abstract:
... The genus Giardia includes several species distinguished by morphological, biological and molecular features. Currently, eight species within the genus are retained as valid. In Italy no identification of Giardia species other than Giardia duodenalis has been so far reported. Fecal samples were collected from two Günther's Voles (Microtus guentheri) positive to Giardia cysts by microscopic investi ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.parint.2020.102207

3. The systematics of Microtus (Terricola) savii group: an odonthometrical perspective (Mammalia, Rodentia, Cricetidae)

Author:
Nappi, Armando; Brunet-Lecomte, Patrick; Montuire, Sophie
Source:
Journal of natural history 2019 v.53 no.47-48 pp. 2855-2867
ISSN:
1464-5262
Subject:
voles,   etc   ; Microtus; animal taxonomy; teeth;     Show all 4 Subjects
Abstract:
... The morphology of the first lower molar of Microtus savii group (M. brachycercus, M. nebrodensis, M. savii) is complex and highly variable. A morphometrical analysis done by grouping the samples into large geographical sets reveals the differentiation between northern, central and southern populations. The specific status of M. nebrodensis is confirmed while it is not possible to separate M. brach ...
DOI:
10.1080/00222933.2020.1758818

4. Light-resetting impact on behavior and the central circadian clock in two vole species (genus: Lasiopodomys)

Author:
Sun, Hong; Li, Chuyi; Zhang, Yifeng; Jiang, Mengwan; Dong, Qianqian; Wang, Zhenlong
Source:
Comparative biochemistry and physiology 2020 v.248-249 pp. 110478
ISSN:
1096-4959
Subject:
voles,   etc   ; Lasiopodomys mandarinus; circadian clocks; circadian rhythm; gene expression; genes; periodicity; photoperiod; rearing;     Show all 9 Subjects
Abstract:
... The behavioral circadian rhythms of subterranean rodents show intra- and interspecies diversity in terms of adaptation to dark underground environments, but the endogenous molecular mechanism of rhythm regulation in the suprachiasmatic nuclei (SCN) is stable to many species. In this study, we sought to determine the rhythms of behavior and central molecular regulatory mechanisms in the SCN of the ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.cbpb.2020.110478

5. Vole disturbances and plant community diversity in a productive hay meadow

Author:
Nicod, Corentin; Couval, Geoffroy; Giraudoux, Patrick; Gillet, François
Source:
Acta oecologica 2020 v.106 pp. 103585
ISSN:
1146-609X
Subject:
voles,   etc   ; Arvicola amphibius; ecological footprint; functional diversity; meadows; mountains; phylogeny; plant communities; small mammals; species richness;     Show all 10 Subjects
Abstract:
... It is recognized that disturbances by fossorial small mammals are important factors determining plant community diversity, especially in grasslands. However, although information about the effects of disturbances by fossorial small mammals on species richness are starting to accumulate, we know little about the impact of these disturbances on the functional and phylogenetic facets of plant communi ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.actao.2020.103585

6. Evolution of Hemoglobin Genes in a Subterranean Rodent Species (<i>Lasiopodomys mandarinus</i>)

Author:
Sun, Hong; Ye, Kaihong; Liu, Denghui; Pan, Dan; Gu, Shiming; Wang, Zhenlong
Source:
Biology 2020 v.9 no.5
ISSN:
2079-7737
Subject:
voles,   etc   ; Lasiopodomys mandarinus; convergent evolution; evolutionary adaptation; hemoglobin; hypoxia; multigene family; oxygen; phylogeny; pseudogenes; selection pressure;     Show all 11 Subjects
Abstract:
... The Mandarin vole (Lasiopodomys mandarinus), a typical subterranean rodent, has undergone hematological adaptations to tolerate the hypoxic/hypercapnic underground environment. Hemoglobin (Hb) genes encode respiratory proteins functioning principally in oxygen binding and transport to various tissues and organs. To investigate the evolution of α- and β-hemoglobin (Hb) in subterra ...
DOI:
10.3390/biology9050106

7. Understanding conservation conflicts associated with rodent outbreaks in farmland areas

Author:
Lauret, Valentin; Delibes-Mateos, Miguel; Mougeot, François; Arroyo-Lopez, Beatriz
Source:
Ambio 2020 v.49 no.5 pp. 1122-1133
ISSN:
0044-7447
Subject:
voles,   etc   ; agricultural land; decision making; environmental impact; farmers; hunters; interviews; stakeholders; Spain;     Show all 9 Subjects
Abstract:
... Rodent outbreaks affect many farmland areas worldwide and the negative environmental impacts of control campaigns cause intense social tensions. In such conservation conflicts, understanding stakeholders’ viewpoints is critical to promote ecologically sustainable management. We used Q-methodology, a framework standing between qualitative and quantitative social research, to investigate human subje ...
DOI:
10.1007/s13280-019-01256-0
PubMed:
31542887
PubMed Central:
PMC7067974

8. Modified live traps increase capture success of semifossorial voles in Alpine meadows

Author:
Mori, Emiliano; Allegrini, Claudia; Bertolino, Sandro
Source:
Mammalia 2020 v.84 no.4 pp. 357-360
ISSN:
1864-1547
Subject:
voles,   etc   ; Microtus; alpine meadows; branches; burrows; habitats; prairies; rocks; small mammals; thigmotaxis; trapping; traps;     Show all 12 Subjects
Abstract:
... Live-trapping of rodents is facilitated by their thigmotaxis (i.e. the tendency to walk along linear structures of the habitat). However, in open habitats, such as meadows and prairies, where linear structures (e.g. rocks and fallen branches) are generally absent and where densities are likely to be low, capturing rodents is often very demanding or ineffective. This applies especially to semifosso ...
DOI:
10.1515/mammalia-2019-0098

9. Documenting lemming population change in the Arctic: Can we detect trends?

Author:
Ehrich, Dorothée; Schmidt, Niels M.; Gauthier, Gilles; Alisauskas, Ray; Angerbjörn, Anders; Clark, Karin; Ecke, Frauke; Eide, Nina E.; Framstad, Erik; Frandsen, Jay; Franke, Alastair; Gilg, Olivier; Giroux, Marie-Andrée; Henttonen, Heikki; Hörnfeldt, Birger; Ims, Rolf A.; Kataev, Gennadiy D.; Kharitonov, Sergey P.; Killengreen, Siw T.; Krebs, Charles J.; Lanctot, Richard B.; Lecomte, Nicolas; Menyushina, Irina E.; Morris, Douglas W.; Morrisson, Guy; Oksanen, Lauri; Oksanen, Tarja; Olofsson, Johan; Pokrovsky, Ivan G.; Popov, Igor Yu.; Reid, Donald; Roth, James D.; Saalfeld, Sarah T.; Samelius, Gustaf; Sittler, Benoit; Sleptsov, Sergey M.; Smith, Paul A.; Sokolov, Aleksandr A.; Sokolova, Natalya A.; Soloviev, Mikhail Y.; Solovyeva, Diana V.
Source:
Ambio 2020 v.49 no.3 pp. 786-800
ISSN:
0044-7447
Subject:
voles,   etc   ; ecosystems; food webs; genetic variation; monitoring; population dynamics; sympatry; tundra; Arctic region; Canada; Russia;     Show all 11 Subjects
Abstract:
... Lemmings are a key component of tundra food webs and changes in their dynamics can affect the whole ecosystem. We present a comprehensive overview of lemming monitoring and research activities, and assess recent trends in lemming abundance across the circumpolar Arctic. Since 2000, lemmings have been monitored at 49 sites of which 38 are still active. The sites were not evenly distributed with not ...
DOI:
10.1007/s13280-019-01198-7
PubMed:
31332767
PubMed Central:
PMC6989711

10. Heterogeneous Puumala orthohantavirus situation in endemic regions in Germany in summer 2019

Author:
Binder, Florian; Drewes, Stephan; Imholt, Christian; Saathoff, Marion; Below, Diana Alexandra; Bendl, Elias; Conraths, Franz J.; Tenhaken, Peter; Mylius, Maren; Brockmann, Stefan; Oehme, Rainer; Freise, Jona; Jacob, Jens; Ulrich, Rainer G.
Source:
Transboundary and emerging diseases 2020 v.67 no.2 pp. 502-509
ISSN:
1865-1674
Subject:
voles,   etc   ; Clethrionomys glareolus; Fagus; Puumala orthohantavirus; disease outbreaks; emerging diseases; humans; risk; summer; Germany;     Show all 10 Subjects
Abstract:
... Puumala orthohantavirus (PUUV) causes most human hantavirus disease cases in Europe. PUUV disease outbreaks are usually synchronized Germany‐wide driven by beech mast‐induced irruptions of its host (bank vole, Myodes glareolus). Recent data indicate high vole abundance, high PUUV prevalence and high human incidence in summer 2019 for some regions, but elsewhere values were low to moderate. This si ...
DOI:
10.1111/tbed.13408

11. Invasions of the Common Vole Sibling Species

Author:
Malygin, V. M.; Baskevich, M. I.; Khlyap, L. A.
Source:
Russian journal of biological invasions 2020 v.11 no.1 pp. 47-65
ISSN:
2075-1117
Subject:
voles,   etc   ; Microtus arvalis; agricultural development; arable soils; deforestation; ecological invasion; irrigation; plowing; sibling species; traffic; Eurasia;     Show all 11 Subjects
Abstract:
... A review of original and published data on invasions of sibling species of Microtus from the group “arvalis” (East European vole, M. rossiaemeridionalis; common vole, M. arvalis; and Altai vole, M. obscurus) is given. Two stages of invasions differing in duration are established. These stages defined the formation of the modern ranges of these species and had an influence on evolutionary processes ...
DOI:
10.1134/S2075111720010087

12. Returning for more prey? Foraging in provisioning male Boreal Owls (Aegolius funereus)

Author:
Sørås, Rune; Gundersen, Oda A.; Steen, Ronny; Sonerud, Geir A.
Source:
Journal of ornithology 2020 v.161 no.1 pp. 171-181
ISSN:
2193-7192
Subject:
voles,   etc   ; Aegolius funereus; birds of prey; foraging; males; nests; probability; video cameras;     Show all 8 Subjects
Abstract:
... Birds providing prey with a clumped distribution often return to the previous capture site after having delivered a prey item at the nest. However, details of this foraging tactic are still poorly known, in particular for birds of prey, which often travel far from their nest. We radio-tracked four provisioning male Boreal Owls (Aegolius funereus) during the nighttime and simultaneously recorded th ...
DOI:
10.1007/s10336-019-01710-6

13. Seasonality shapes the amplitude of vole population dynamics rather than generalist predators

Author:
Andreassen, Harry P.; Johnsen, Kaja; Joncour, Barbara; Neby, Magne; Odden, Morten
Source:
Oikos 2020 v.129 no.1 pp. 117-123
ISSN:
0030-1299
Subject:
voles,   etc   ; Clethrionomys glareolus; models; population dynamics; population size; predators; seasonal variation; winter; Scandinavia;     Show all 9 Subjects
Abstract:
... Seasonality has been suggested as a necessary factor for the initiation of vole population cycles in Fennoscandia. This has been well described for a latitudinal gradient. Here, we used an elevational gradient as a proxy for winter length to study how the length of the winter season correlates with the amplitude of bank vole Myodes glareolus population cycles. In addition, we studied whether the s ...
DOI:
10.1111/oik.06351

14. Social and Vocal Behavior of Microtus socialis and M. paradoxus in Experiment

Author:
Rutovskaya, M. V.
Source:
Biology bulletin of the Russian Academy of Sciences 2019 v.46 no.4 pp. 387-397
ISSN:
1062-3590
Subject:
voles,   etc   ; Microtus; aggression; females; males; mortality; reproduction;     Show all 7 Subjects
Abstract:
... The intraspecific relations of two species of the subgenus Sumeriomys have been studied: the social vole Microtus socialis and the paradox vole M. paradoxus. The relationships between animals same-sex individuals in the experimental groups, are generally amicable, but the cohabitation of two or more females suppresses reproduction. Groups formed from unfamiliar individuals were characterized by in ...
DOI:
10.1134/S1062359019030105

15. Colonisation dynamics during range expansion is poorly predicted by dispersal in the core range

Author:
Morgan, William H.; Cornulier, Thomas; Lambin, Xavier
Source:
Ecography 2019 v.42 no.6 pp. 1142-1151
ISSN:
0906-7590
Subject:
voles,   etc   ; conservation status; ecological function; habitats; prediction;     Show all 5 Subjects
Abstract:
... The potential ranges of many species are shifting due to changing ecological conditions. Where populations become patchy towards the range edge, the realised distribution emerges from colonisation–persistence dynamics. Therefore, a greater understanding of the drivers of these processes, and the spatial scales over which they operate, presents an opportunity to improve predictions of species range ...
DOI:
10.1111/ecog.04180

16. Meadow voles, Microtus pennsylvanicus, can discriminate between scents of individual house cats, Felis catus

Author:
Rohrer, Karl N.; Ferkin, Michael H.
Source:
Ethology 2019 v.125 no.5 pp. 316-323
ISSN:
0179-1613
Subject:
voles,   etc   ; Microtus pennsylvanicus; cats; odors; predation; risk;     Show all 6 Subjects
Abstract:
... Individual discrimination provides animals the opportunity to adjust their exposure and behavior when interacting with other animals, both conspecifics and heterospecifics. Meadow voles, Microtus pennsylvanicus, were exposed to scents of house cats, Felis catus. Our first experiment tested whether meadow voles could discriminate between caudal, interdigital, and facial scents produced by a cat wit ...
DOI:
10.1111/eth.12856

17. Are Northern Harriers (Circus hudsonius) Facultative Specialists on Arvicoline Rodents in Midwestern Agroecosystems?

Author:
Zagorski, Megan E.; Swihart, Robert K.
Source:
TheAmerican midland naturalist 2020 v.184 no.2 pp. 188-204
ISSN:
0003-0031
Subject:
voles,   etc   ; Blarina brevicauda; Circus; Microtus; Peromyscus; Reithrodontomys; agroecosystems; diet; food composition; mice; shrews; small mammals; temporal variation; Indiana;     Show all 14 Subjects
Abstract:
... We assessed geographic and temporal variation in diets of wintering Northern Harriers (Circus hudsonius) in western Indiana, U.S.A., using multivariate regression on counts of prey from pellets collected at communal roosts. Because there is no uniform method for determining the minimum number of individuals (MNI) contained in a pellet, we also assessed whether application of four different countin ...
DOI:
10.1637/0003-0031-184.2.188

18. How does individual variation in sociality influence fitness in prairie voles?

Author:
Sabol, Anne C.; Lambert, Connor T.; Keane, Brian; Solomon, Nancy G.; Dantzer, Ben
Source:
Animal behaviour 2020 v.163 pp. 39-49
ISSN:
0003-3472
Subject:
voles,   etc   ; Microtus ochrogaster; animal behavior; automation; comparative study; evolution; females; intraspecific variation; males; progeny; reproductive success; social behavior; social networks;     Show all 13 Subjects
Abstract:
... Comparative studies aid in our understanding of specific conditions favouring the initial evolution of different types of social behaviours, yet there is much unexplained intraspecific variation in the expression of social behaviour that comparative studies have not yet addressed. The proximate causes of this individual variation in social behaviour within a species have been examined in some spec ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.anbehav.2020.02.009

19. On the geographic genetic variants of the cestode Echinococcus multilocularis with reference to the original descriptions from Bowles et al. (1992) and Bowles and McManus (1993), and their use

Author:
Šnábel, Viliam; Antolová, Daniela; Cavallero, Serena; D'Amelio, Stefano
Source:
Parasitology international 2020 v.75 pp. 102039
ISSN:
1383-5769
Subject:
voles,   etc   ; Echinococcus multilocularis; Pleistocene epoch; echinococcosis; foxes; genetic variation; genotype; larvae; mitochondria; mitochondrial genes; phylogeny; provenance; tapeworms; Alaska; China;     Show all 15 Subjects
Abstract:
... Alveolar echinococcosis, caused by the larval stages of the tapeworm Echinococcus multilocularis (Leuckart, 1863), is of increasing concern in the northern hemisphere. Most cases of alveolar echinococcosis (excluding Alaska) appear to be linked with European and Asian genotypes that highlight the need for a more precise delimiting of their actual distribution and tracing historical episodes of the ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.parint.2019.102039

20. Seroprevalence of Tick-Borne Encephalitis Virus in Three Species of Voles (Microtus spp.) in Poland

Author:
Grzybek, Maciej; Tołkacz, Katarzyna; Alsarraf, Mohammed; Dwużnik, Dorota; Szczepaniak, Klaudiusz; Tomczuk, Krzysztof; Biernat, Beata; Behnke, Jerzy M.; Bajer, Anna
Source:
Journal of wildlife diseases 2020 v.56 no.2 pp. 492-494
ISSN:
0090-3558
Subject:
voles,   etc   ; Microtus; Tick-borne encephalitis virus; adults; antibodies; blood; disease reservoirs; enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay; seroprevalence; Poland;     Show all 10 Subjects
Abstract:
... Rodents play a role as reservoir hosts for tick-borne encephalitis virus (TBEV). We trapped 77 voles of the genus Microtus and tested their blood using an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay for the presence of antibodies against TBEV. We detected TBEV antibodies in three adult individuals (4%). Voles might play a role in the circulation of TBEV. ...
DOI:
10.7589/2019-02-048