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Ticul Alvarez Alvarez-Castañeda

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Susette Castañeda-Rico,Sarah A. Johnson,Scott A. Clement,Robert C. Dowler,Jesús E. Maldonado,Cody W. Edwards

Evolutionary radiations stemming from colonization of archipelagos provide valuable insights into mechanisms and modes of speciation.  For this reason, the fauna inhabiting the Galápagos Islands has been the focus of numerous emblematic ecological an... see more

Rafael Avila-Flores,Ana Lucía Bolaina-Badal,Adriana Gallegos-Ruiz,Wendy S. Sánchez-Gómez

Linear landscape features are used by many species of insectivorous bats as flight routes and foraging zones, as well as for providing protection against environmental factors and predation. However, very little is known about the role that these landscap... see more

Lia Méndez-Rodríguez,Sergio Ticul Álvarez-Castañeda

Some rodents of the family Heteromyidae can survive without drinking water, as they obtain it from food.  All these species have in common that they eat seeds and fruits. The content of trace metals in food varies depending on the local geology and a... see more

Juan Pablo Gallo-Reynoso,Samuel Macías-Sánchez,Veruschka A. Nuñez-Ramos,Aron Loya-Jaquez,Isai David Barba-Acuña,Lucila del Carmen Armenta-Méndez,Jimena J. Guerrero-Flores,Gloria Ponce-García,Alfonso A. Gardea-Bejar

We have identified a scarcely known river otter population from the Upper Río Conchos basin, northern Mexico, finding a well-established population of the Nearctic otter Lontra canadensis.  A pioneer study of these otters at Río San Pedro, a tributar... see more

Robert Owen,Jeremy V. Camp,Colleen B. Jonsson

Few studies have focused on rodent communities at the margins of an ecoregion or the limits of species’ distributions, where the community may be more sensitive to extrinsic variables, both biotic and abiotic. This study evaluates sigmodontine rodent spec... see more

Consuelo Lorenzo,Tamara M. Rioja,Arturo Carrillo-Reyes,Sergio Ticul Álvarez-Castañeda

An outbreak of a highly lethal hemorrhagic fever, caused by an Arenavirus whose reservoir was Peromyscus mexicanus, occurred in the state of Chiapas, Mexico, in June 1967. In order to determine whether any Arenavirus is nowadays present in the same region... see more

Pablo Teta,Guillermo D’Elía

The identification of taxa with small range sizes is important both from an ecological and conservational perspective. As other small mammals, several species of rodents have restricted geographical distributions, a situation that could increase their imm... see more

M. Fernanda Lopez-Berrizbeitia,M. Monica Diaz

Northwestern Argentina (NOA) is one of the least studied areas in Argentina with respect to ectoparasites of the order Siphonaptera; previous investigations, until this study, were scarce and specific.  The objective of this study was to contribute t... see more

Andrea Romero,Mark E. Mort,J. Andrew DeWoody,Robert M. Timm

Genetic studies provide important insights into the evolutionary history and taxonomy of species, allowing us to identify lineages difficult to distinguish morphologically. The relationship among species in the genus Heteromys has been in flux as new spec... see more

William Lidicker

A long-standing belief among humans is that the behaviors we call making music and dancing are thought to be strictly human activities.  Rapidly accumulating evidence, however, tells a different story.  Both music and dance are characterized by ... see more

Luz Adriana Pérez-Solano,Sonia Gallina Tessaro

In desert regions, species have adapted physiologically and behaviorally to the extreme conditions of their environment, such as a lack of water and extreme temperatures. This is the case of the mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus) a species which many aspects... see more

Whitney C Preisser,Jorge Falcón-Ordaz

We present an updated checklist of helminth species infecting cricetid and heteromyid rodents (Rodentia: Cricetidae and Heteromyidae) distributed in Mexico. For each helminth record, we include information on helminth taxonomy, location within the host, l... see more

Marisel Flores-Quispe,Giüseppy Calizaya-Mamani,Gandhy Portugal-Zegarra,Giovanni Aragon Alvarado,Jaime Pacheco-Castillo,Edgardo M. Rengifo

Mormopterus kalinowskii, is an insectivorous species restricted to the Andean western slopes of Peru and Chile, it is rare and has very scarce available information. We evaluated sex ratio, roost use, and relationship between reproductive patterns and mon... see more

Rafael Reyna-Hurtado,David Sima-Pantí,Maria Andrade,Angelica Padilla,Oscar Retana-Guaiscon,Khiavett Sanchez-Pinzón

Baird’s tapir is the largest Neotropical tapir species, and it is considered Endangered by the IUCN.  The Calakmul Biosphere Reserve (CBR) is the largest protected tropical forest in Mexico.  The CBR is at the heart of the Maya Forest, a tri-nat... see more

María Belén Barreto Cáceres,Robert D. Owen

The ecological importance of small mammals includes their role as dispersers of seeds, spores and propagules of plants, fungi and lichens, decomposers of organic matter and controllers of invertebrates as well as prey of a great number of vertebrates. The... see more

Eduardo Mendoza,Angela A Camargo-Sanabria,Juan Basurto-Godoy,Oscar Godínez-Gómez,Manuel Mendoza Ramírez

Fruits reaching the floor of tropical forests constitute an attractive resource for a variety of mammals. Study of the characteristics of the frugivory interaction can help to advance in the understanding of the mechanisms favoring animal’s coexistence. H... see more

Alejandro Flores-Manzanero,Ella Vázquez-Domínguez

Since the term was coined in 2003, landscape genetics (LG) is a field that integrates population genetics, landscape ecology, and spatial analytical techniques to quantify the effects of landscape on microevolutionary processes.  Despite the growing ... see more

Luis Manuel Guevara-Chumacero,Itzel Citlalli Rubio-Gutiérrez,Carlos Alfredo Gordillo Méndez

Tapirella bairdii participates in the dynamics of tropical forests through herbivory and seed dispersal. The objective of the present study was to review and analyze the literature published on T. bairdii in México between 1865 and 2018 aiming to identify... see more

Scott Gardner

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