[Functional morphogenesis in organ cultures of the middle abdominal specific skin gland of the Djungarian hamster (Phodopus campbelli, Rodentia, Mammalia)].
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Co-occurrence of metacestodes of Echinococcus multilocularis and Taenia taeniaeformis (Cestoda) in Arvicola terrestris (Rodentia) in France.
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[Genogeographic variability and genetic differentiation of the root vole (Microtus oeconomus Pallas, 1776, Cricetidae, Rodentia) from the Kuril Islands].
Electrophoretic analysis of 12 enzyme systems and 3 nonenzyme proteins (in all, 24 interpretable loci) was carried out for Microtus oeconomus from ten Kuril islands, Kamchatka Peninsula, and the vicinity of the city of Magadan. Gene geographic variation was examined and the coefficients of genetic variation and differentiation were estimated. The inter-population allozyme differentiation was low (DNEI, 1972 not higher than 0.053) and caused by variation in the allele frequencies of polymorphic loci. The greatest genetic distances were found between the populations belonging to different subspecies. Allozyme differentiation of Far Eastern M. oeconomus and M. fortis are discussed in relation to the data on the age of the island isolation and paleontological records. Karyological analysis (G-, C-, and NOR-banding) demonstrated the absence of differences between M. oeconomus from Kamchatka and the vicinity of Magadan.
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[Landscape aspects of host-parasite relationships between parasitic arthropods and the narrow-skulled vole Microtus gregalis (Rodentia) in Western Siberia].
Comparative zoogeographic analysis of outcomes accumulated in the course of long-term investigation the parasitic and free-living arthropods (Acarina: Parasitiformes; Insecta: Siphonaptera) associated with three subspecies of the narrow-skulled vole (Microtus gregalis gregalis, M. g. major, M. g. eversmanni) in various landscape zones and subzones in a flat part of Western Siberia, foothills of the Altai-Sayan mountain system and mountains of Southwest Altai. The obtained data, on the one hand, recover specific features of certain parasite communities that reflect ecological peculiarity of a host species living in conditions of concrete landscapes, on the other hand, a high degree of similarity between species set of some ectoparasitic and nidicolous arthropod groups from different subspecies of M. gregalis. The systematic list of ectoparasitic and nidicolous arthropods associated with M. gregalis and representing Gamasoidea mites, ticks and fleas is provided.
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[Allozyme variation of the pygmy wood mouse Sylvaemus uralensis (Rodentia, Muridae) and estimation of the divergence of its chromosome forms].
The genetic divergence between the eastern European, southern European, and Asian chromosome forms of the pygmy wood mouse Sylvaemus uralensis, whose karyotypes differ from one another in the amount of pericentromeric heterochromatin, has been reevaluated using allozyme analysis. In general, Asian S. uralensis living in eastern Kazakhstan, eastern Turkmenistan (the Kugitang Ridge), and Uzbekistan are more monomorphic than European populations of this species. However, the allozyme differences between all chromosome forms of the pygmy wood mouse is comparable with the interpopulation differences within each form and are an order of magnitude smaller than those between "good" species of the genus Sylvaemus. Thus, the chromosome forms of S. uralensis cannot be considered to be separate species. The concept of races as large population groups that have not diverged enough to regard them as species but differ from one another in some genetic characters is used to describe the differentiation of S. uralensis forms more adequately. The currently available evidence suggests the existence of two S. uralensis races, the Asian and the European ones, and two chromosome forms (eastern and western) of the European race. The possible historical factors that have determined the formation of the races of the pygmy wood mouse are considered. According to the most plausible hypothesis, the shift and fragmentation of the broad-leaved forest zone during the most recent glacial period (late Pleistocene) were the crucial factors of the formation of these races, because they resulted in a prolonged isolation of the European and Asian population groups of S. uralensis from each other.
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[An input of heterochronies to the formation of interspecific differences in wood mice, Sylvaemus (Rodentia)].
Difference in adult size and body shape among the closely related species is the result of diversification in morphogenetic processes. We examined age variation in various external and craniometric characters of four Sylvaemus species from Ukrane fauna, S. uralensis, S. arianus, S. sylvaticus, and S. tauricus, using cross-sectional techniques. The intensive growth period occurred to be different in various species. Rapid growth of S. tauricus continues during all life span, while in other species growth rate becomes slower at different stages. This peculiarity of S. tauricus may be the result of prolonged and more intensive production of somatotropin by adenohypophysis. Side effects of adenohypophysis activation are resulted from changes in S. tauricus skull shape and more intensive pigmentation in comparison with three other species. Prolongation of growth could be developmental mechanism for size increasing in evolution of S. tauricus. The independence of body size and pigmentation is principally the same at interspecific and intraspecific level.
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Intra individual variation in the number of B chromosomes in the yellow-necked mouse, Apodemus flavicollis (Mammalia, Rodentia).
The yellow-necked mouse, Apodemus flavicollis, is characterized by a frequent occurrence of B chromosomes. The frequency of intra individual mosaicism of Bs was studied in 995 animals collected at six localities in Serbia. It was found that 329 (33.06%) possessed B chromosomes. Among these, 87 animals (26.44%) were mosaics. A total of 32 mosaic animals with more than one B chromosome were analyzed for distribution of Bs which was found to be quite different between groups of animals with different numbers of Bs and increases with their number. The frequency of mosaics differs between localities and ranges from 0.22 to 0.55.
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[Variability in size of the nuclear genome in pygmy wood mouse Sylvaemus uralensis (Rodentia, Muridae)].
Earlier, in an integral genetic study, the Asian and European races were distinguished within the species Sylvaemus uralensis (pygmy wood mouse) and the European race was divided into the East European and South European forms. Each of these groups differed from the others, in particular, in the quantity of the centromeric heterochromatin in karyotypes of the animals. To establish the pattern of its changes in S. uralensis, in the present study the DNA content in splenocyte nuclei in all races and forms of pygmy wood mice was assessed using DNA flow cytometry. The heterochromatin amount in karyotypes and genome size were shown to be correlated. The East European chromosomal race of S. uralensis (Central Chernozem and Non-Chernozem regions of Russia, Crimea Peninsula, Middle Volga region, and Southern Ural) and the Asian race of this species (East Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and East Turkmenistan), which have respectively the highest and the lowest amounts of centromeric heterochromatin in the karyotype, exhibit the greatest difference in the DNA content in the genome. On average, the difference is approximately 8% in males and 6.7% in females; in both cases, the ranges of variability were distinctly different. Against the general background of the trait variation, the Asian race, whose members have the smallest DNA amount in their cells, looks homogeneous. The genome of the South European chromosomal form of S. uralensis (Caucasus, Transcaucasia, Carpathians, and Balkan Peninsula), which exhibits an intermediate content of the centromeric heterochromatin in the karyotype, is smaller that the genome of the East European race (by 3.2% in the group of males and by 1.9%, in the group of females), but larger than that of the Asian race (by 5% in either sex). Thus, the variability of size of centromeric C-blocks in pygmy wood mouse is likely to be associated with elimination (or, conversely, an increase in the amount) of the genetically inert chromatin. It is suggested that a significant contribution to the variability of genome size in S. uralensis is made by heterochromosomes, or, more precisely, their variable regions, which seem to be largely heterochromatic.
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Phylogenetic and environmental components of morphological variation: skull, mandible, and molar shape in marmots (Marmota, Rodentia).
The phenotype is a product of its phylogenetic history and its recent adaptation to local environments, but the relative importance of the two factors is controversial. We assessed the effects of diet, habitat, elevation, temperature, precipitation, body size, and mtDNA genetic divergence on shape variation in skulls, mandibles, and molars, structures that differ in their genetic and functional control. We asked whether these structures have adapted to environment to the same extent and whether they retain the same amount of phylogenetic signal. We studied these traits in intra- and interspecific populations of Eurasian marmots whose last common ancestor lived 2-5 million years ago. Path Analysis revealed that body size explained 10% of variation in skulls, 7% in mandibles, and 15% in molars. Local vegetation explained 7% of variation in skulls, 11% in mandibles, and 12% in molars. Dietary category explained 25% of variation in skulls, 11% in mandibles, and 9% in molars. Cyt b mtDNA divergence (phylogeny) explained 15% of variation in skulls, 7% in mandibles, and 5% in molars. Despite the percentages of phylogenetic variance, maximum-likelihood trees based on molar and skull shape recovered most phylogenetic groupings correctly, but mandible shape did not. The good performance of molars and skulls was probably due to different factors. Skulls are genetically and functionally more complicated than teeth, and they had more mathematically independent components of variation (5-6-in skulls compared to 3-in molars). The high proportion of diet-related variance was not enough to mask the phylogenetic signal. Molars had fewer independent components, but they also have less ecophenotypic variation and evolve more slowly, giving each component a proportionally stronger phylogenetic signal. Molars require larger samples for each operational taxonomic unit than the other structures because the proportion of within-taxon to between-taxon variation was higher. Good phylogenetic signal in quantitative skeletal morphology is likely to be found only when the taxa have a common ancestry no older than hundreds of thousands or millions of years (1% to 10% mtDNA divergence)--under these conditions skulls and molars provide stronger signal than mandibles.
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[Heterochromatin as a factor influencing X-chromosome inactivation in hybrids of the common vole (Microtinae, Rodentia)].
Expression of X-linked genes for G6PD and alpha-GAL was studied in female interspecific hybrids of Microtus. The G6PD and alpha-GAL isozymes of Microtus arvalis were found to predominate in all cases when a species carrying a heterochromatin block on the X-chromosome served as one partner of hybridization and M. arvalis containing no heterochromatin block served as another. The proportions of G6PD and alpha-GAL parental forms were approx. equal in hybrid females when both species participating in hybridization contained heterochromatin blocks on X-chromosomes. Cytological analysis for revealing active and nonactive X-chromosomes on metaphase spreads of hybrid females supports the biochemical data. Non-random inactivation of X-chromosomes carrying the heterochromatin blocks in the interspecific hybrids with M. arvalis and a random one, when both parents contain heterochromatin blocks on the X-chromosomes are supposed to be the cause for the phenomenon observed. The study provided data supporting our previous hypothesis that heterochromatin affects the X-chromosome inactivation process in interspecific hybrid voles.
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[Evolutionary relationships among narrow-headed rats (genus Stenocephalemys, Muridae, Rodentia) inferred from complete cytochrome b gene sequences].
Using the data on complete sequences of cytochrome b gene, phylogenetic relationships were studied among the Stenocephalemys s. lat. (Stenocephalemys ssp. + Praomys albipes) murine rodents, inhabiting adjacent altitudinal belts of the isolated Ethiopian mountain massifs, and among the related Praomys s. lat. species. Extremely low resolution of the relationships among the main Praomys s. lat. lineages hampered identification of the nearest sister group for the Stenocephalemys s. lat. "Ethiopian" clade, monophyly of which was strongly supported. Sister relationships between P. albipes and S. griseicauda (implying "accelerated" morphological and chromosomal evolution upon the formation of the former species), as well as between S. albocaudata and the recently described novel chromosomal form of Stenocephalemus sp. A (2n = 50; NFa = 56) were demonstrated. Definite discordance between the rates of their molecular, chromosomal, and morphological evolution was revealed. Based on phylogenetic reconstructions and the estimates of the divergence time, obtained by use of molecular clock method, an attempt to draw a phylogenetic scenario for the group examined was made. The obtained data were compared to those for analogous Sigmodontinae species complexes, distributed across a marked altitudinal gradient on the Andean slopes. It was shown that molecular genetic data on the rodents from mountain tropics did not support the gradient model of diversification, based on the possibility of morphological diversification prior to their achievement of the species status (without interruption of the gene flow between the forms) due to differently directed selection across a strong environmental gradient.
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Demodex spp. (Acari: Demodecidae) in brown rat (Rodentia: Muridae) in Poland.
The study on the demodecid fauna of the brown rat (Rattus norvegicus) revealed the presence of three species: Demodex nanus, D. norvegicus, and D. ratti, all three new for the fauna of Poland.
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[Karyological and allozyme variability of far eastern voles Microtus fortis Büchner, 1889 (Cricetidae, Rodentia) from the Russian Far East].
Karyological (G-, C-, and NOR-banding) and allozyme analyses were carried out for island and continental populations of the vole Microtus fortis from the Far East of Russia. Variability of the autosome pair 7 was found. The presence of variation in the number of telomere heterochromatin blocks in the populations of Far Eastern voles was confirmed. NOR-staining of the Far Eastern vole chromosomes was carried out, showing stability of the number and the positions of the nucleolus organizer regions. Ten enzyme systems and three non-enzyme proteins (controlled in total by 25 interpretable loci) were examined in the Far Eastern vole from the island and continental populations. All of the loci were shown to be monomorphic, except for one esterase locus, which exhibited polymorphism at the intrapopulation and interpopulation levels. The issue of distribution of the Far Eastern vole subspecies is discussed. It is suggested that M. fortis pelliceus occurs not only in the Russian Far East, but also in Northern Transbaikalia.
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[Morphological variability of Microtus oeconomus pallas (Rodentia, Rrvicolidae) from Baikal region].
The analysis of morphological variability of the ten samples of Microtus oeconomus from islands of Baikal and adjacent regions gas shown, that island samples differ from continental ones by complex of parameters, defining proportions of a skuul, mainly, proportions of an auditory region. Island samples also differ higher indexes of complexity and asymmetry of morphotypes of the third upper molar. An environment of the Baikal islands differ absence of the damp habitats preferred Microtus oeconomus, and also colder microclimate that has caused forming original morphological character of island micropopulations.
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[Genetic divergence and allozymic variability in mice of the genus Apodemus s. lato (Muridae, Rodentia)].
Genetic variability of 36 presumed loci was examined in 5 species of subgenus Sylvaemus (sylvaticus, flavicollis, microps, falzfeini, ponticus) and in 3 species of the subgenus Apodemus s. str. (agrarius, peninsulae, speciosus) from different geographic regions of the USSR. Taxonomic status and species affiliation of A. s. chorassanicus from Turkmenia and A. s. tscherga from Altay have been established: the former is identical to A. falzfeini from the Ukraine, the latter is identical to A. microps. Genus Apodemus s. lato can be divided into two different geni (Apodemus s. str. and Sylvaemus) on the basis of genetic distance between them (D = 1,518). Genetic differentiation within subgenus Sylvaemus is 0.311, within subgenus Apodemus s. str. is 1,011. The observed differences in genetic heterozygosity between species (H varies from 0 to 0.067) are, probably, due to the historical events which take place in the formation of areas of these species.
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Distinct centric fusions in different populations of Deltamys kempi (Rodentia, Cricetidae) from South America.
Chromosome studies on 28 specimens collected in two Brazilian populations of the rodent species Deltamys kempi disclosed seven different karyotypes, due to two autosome centric fusions (2;3 and 9;15) in homozygous and heterozygous states, and a Y-autosome translocation present in all males. These results, plus those obtained previously in a population from Argentina and another from Brazil, show that this species has 44% of carriers of four autosome centric fusions, and each rearrangement is restricted to a distinct locality.
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[Wild rodents as experimental models of schistosomiasis mansoni: Akodon arviculoides (Rodentia: Cricetidae)].
The experimental infection of A. arviculoides through different routes of penetration of Schistosoma mansoni cercariae (Transcutaneous and subcutaneous) was studied by the kinetics of egg elimination in stools, by the recovery and localization of adult worms (in the portal system and the mesenteric veins) and through the quantitative egg count. It was shown that A. arviculoides infection is similar to the albino mice which served as control in relation to the efficiency of penetration routes, to the adult worms habitat and the egg count. These results suggest that other aspects of the host-parasite relationship should be evaluate so that A. arviculoides may be indicated as an alternative experimental model in schistosomiasis studies.
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[Additional sacculi in the orifice of the cheek pouches of Campbell's hamster (Phodopus campbelli Thomas, 1905; Cricetidae, Rodentia)].
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