| mitochondrial dna reveals a strong phylogeographic structure in the badger across eurasia. | the badger, meles meles, is a widely distributed mustelid in eurasia and shows large geographic variability in morphological characters whose evolutionary significance is unclear and needs to be contrasted with molecular data. we sequenced 512 bp of the mitochondrial dna control region in 115 eurasian badgers from 21 countries in order to test for the existence of structuring in their phylogeography, to describe the genetic relationships among their populations across its widespread geographic r ... | 2006 | 16599963 |
| the taxonomic status of badgers (mammalia, mustelidae) from southwest asia based on cranial morphometrics, with the redescription of meles canescens. | the eurasian badgers (meles spp.) are widespread in the palaearctic region, occurring from the british islands in the west to the japanese islands in the east, including the scandinavia, southwest asia and southern china. the morphometric variation in 30 cranial characters of 692 skulls of meles from across the palaearctic was here analyzed. this craniometric analysis revealed a significant difference between the european and asian badger phylogenetic lineages, which can be further split in two ... | 2013 | 25232583 |
| phylogenetic relationship of asian badger meles leucurus amurensis revealed by complete mitochondrial genome. | the asian badger (meles leucurus amurensis) is widely distributed throughout the northeast of china, and plays an important role in regulating the prey population stability of forest eco-system as mesopredators. we first determined and annotated the whole mtdna genome of the asian badger meles leucurus amurensis to better understand the evolutionary relationship of this subspecies. the complete mitogenome is 16 497 bp in length, includes 13 protein-coding genes, 22 trna genes, 2 rrna genes and 1 ... | 2017 | 26714063 |
| replacement of the european badger (meles meles l., 1758) by the asian badger (meles leucurus hodgson, 1847) at the boundary between europe and asia in the holocene epoch. | | 2016 | 20665161 |
| brucella melitensis in asian badgers, northwestern china. | we isolated brucella melitensis biovar 3 from the spleen of an asian badger (meles leucurus) in nilka county, northwestern china. our investigation showed that this isolate had a common multilocus variable-number tandem-repeat analysis 16 genotype, similar to bacterial isolates from local aborted sheep fetuses. | 2020 | 32187504 |
| flea surveillance on wild mammals in northern region of xinjiang, northwestern china. | flea distribution in northern region of xinjiang uygur autonomous region (xuar) and fluctuations of the annual fleas index in alataw pass were investigated. during a 4-year (2015-2018) study, 5789 fleas were collected directly from 15 mammals at eight counties in northern xuar of northwestern china. nineteen flea species, belonging to sixteen genera and seven families, were further confirmed by four genetic markers (18s rdna, 28s rdna, coi and coii) after morphological observation. pulex irritan ... | 2020 | 31879590 |
| soboliphyme baturini (nematoda: soboliphymatidae) recovered from stomach of asian badger, meles leucurus, in geochang-gun, gyeongsangnam-do, korea. | we are going to describe the female soboliphymid nematodes, which were recovered from the stomach of a asian badger, meles leucurus (mammalia: mustelidae), in geochang-gun, gyeongsangnam-do, korea. in february 1998, we found 2 peculiar nematodes with a cup-like organ in the anterior end from the stomach of badger. recovered worms were fixed with 10% formalin, cleared in glycerin-alcohol solution and observed under a light microscope with a micrometer. they were 34.46 (33.43-35.50) mm long by 2.1 ... | 2019 | 31715694 |
| tick distribution in border regions of northwestern china. | ticks are important vectors of emerging and re-emerging pathogens. the aim of this study was to determine tick species occurring in xinjiang uygur autonomous region (xuar), especially on border regions. a total of 22,994 ticks (including 22,629 adults, 365 larvae and nymphs), belonging to six tick genera (i.e. dermacentor, hyalomma, rhipicephalus, haemaphysalis, ixodes and argas) and fourteen tick species, were collected from ten animal hosts in thirty-five counties (cities) in xuar during 2011 ... | 2019 | 30833199 |