| [blood parasites of small wild mammals in czechoslovakia]. | the author investigated 4,853 specimens of wild living small mammals (43 species: insectivora, chiroptera, lagomorpha, rodentia, carnivora) from czechoslovakia for blood parasites. trypanosomes were found in talpa europaea, sorex alpinus, crocidura suaveolens, myotis myotis, apodemus sylvaticus, apodemus flavicollis, mus musculus, rattus norvegicus, clethrionomys glareolus and microtus agrestis. babesia was detected in myotis emarginatus, myotis myotis, clethrionomys glareolus, microtus arvalis ... | 1975 | 1158292 |
| [small mammals at community refuse dumps as reservoirs of pathogens and parasites]. | five-year studies (1981-1986) were performed to investigate a total number of 2589 small mammals of 18 species. refuse dumps are marked for highly specific conditions. the difference between refuse dumps and natural habitats consists in more sufficient quantity of food, better sheltering possibilities and in highly specific microclimate particularly. as a result of aerobic and anaerobic decompositions of organic materials, temperature in dumps is approximately 50 degrees c. from ecological point ... | 1991 | 1807042 |
| the autecology of small rodents and insectivores of the tribec mountain range. | small rodents and insectivores have become the main reservoirs of tick-borne encephalitis virus. in order, therefore, to demonstrate the dynamic and structural changes occurring in a natural focus of tick-borne encephalitis, information has been collected on the distribution, habitat, life-cycle, population density and extent of tick infestation of the rodents and insectivores that inhabit the tribec region and adjacent parts of the hronský inovec mountains. the following mammals are discussed: ... | 1967 | 5298539 |
| comparative phylogeography and postglacial colonization routes in europe. | the quaternary cold periods in europe are thought to have heavily influenced the amount and distribution of intraspecific genetic variation in both animals and plants. the phylogeographies of 10 taxa, including mammals (ursus arctos, sorex spp., crocidura suaveolens, arvicola spp.), amphibians (triturus spp.), arthropods (chorthippus parallelus), and plants (abies alba, picea abies, fagus sylvatica, quercus spp.), were analysed to elucidate general trends across europe. only a small degree of co ... | 1998 | 9628000 |
| emmonsiosis of wild rodents and insectivores in czechland. | adiaspores of the fungus emmonsia crescens were detected microscopically in the lung tissue of 13% of 10.081 small mammals belonging to 24 species examined in 14 areas of the czech republic between 1986 and 1997; 441/1.934 (23%) clethrionomys glareolus, 1/6 (17%) arvicola terrestris, 357/2.172 (16%) apodemus flavicollis, 220/1.981 (11%). a sylvaticus, 23/265 (9%) a. microps, 11/81 (14%) microtus subterraneus, 93/1.275 (7%) m. arvalis, 98/1.439 (7%) m. agrestis, 1/3 (33%) ondatra zibethicus, 1/1 ... | 1999 | 10231750 |
| nmr spectroscopy based metabonomic studies on the comparative biochemistry of the kidney and urine of the bank vole (clethrionomys glareolus), wood mouse (apodemus sylvaticus), white toothed shrew (crocidura suaveolens) and the laboratory rat. | the metabolic profiles of three wild mammals that vary in their trophic strategies, the herbivorous bank vole (clethrionomys glareolus), the granivorous wood mouse (apodemus sylvaticus), and the insectivorous white-toothed shrew (crocidura suaveolens), were compared with that of a widely used strain of laboratory rat (sprague dawley). in conjunction with nmr spectroscopic investigations into the urine and blood plasma composition for these mammals, high resolution magic angle spinning (hrmas) 1h ... | 2000 | 11126766 |
| findings of mycobacteria in insectivores and small rodents. | the organs of 30 insectivorous mammals and 62 rodents from areas inhabited by people or livestock where cattle paratuberculosis or mycobacterial infections of swine had been found to occur were examined by cultivation during the monitoring of occurrence and spread of mycobacterioses in cattle and swine. mycobacteria were found in the organs of 3 insectivores (10%) and 6 rodents (9.7%). mycobacterium chelonae was isolated from the organs of the lesser white-toothed shrew (crocidura suaveolens) an ... | 2000 | 11271823 |
| epidemiological studies on host animals of scrub typhus of the autumn-winter type in shandong province, china. | in order to elucidate the host animals of scrub typhus in shandong province, epidemiological studies on host rodents of the autumn-winter type scrub typhus were carried out from 1995 to 2002 at four localities in the shandong province. based upon ecological observations of the composition, seasonal fluctuation of animal hosts, isolation of orientia tsutsugamushi, detection and identification of serotypes of antibodies to o. tsutsugamushi were conducted. two thousand eight hundred and eighty-four ... | 2003 | 15115095 |
| seroepidemiology of borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato and anaplasma phagocytophilum in wild mice captured in northern turkey. | an expedition across the asian part of the black sea coast and national parks of northern turkey was organized in the summer of 2001 to investigate the presence of borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato (s.l.), lyme borreliosis agent, and anaplasma phagocytophilum, human granulocytic ehrlichiosis, agent, in wild mice. a total of 65 apodemus flavicollis, apodemus sylvaticus, microtus epiroticus, crocidura suaveolens and mus macedonicus, were captured. two out of 22 apodemus sylvaticus specimens were ser ... | 2005 | 15816159 |
| pliocene and pleistocene diversification and multiple refugia in a eurasian shrew (crocidura suaveolens group). | we sequenced 998 base pairs (bp) of mitochondrial dna cytochrome b and 799 bp of nuclear gene brca1 in the lesser white-toothed shrew (crocidura suaveolens group) over its geographic range from portugal to japan. the aims of the study were to identify the main clades within the group and respective refugia resulting from pleistocene glaciations. analyses revealed the asian lesser white-toothed shrew (c. shantungensis) as the basal clade, followed by a major branch of c. suaveolens, subdivided se ... | 2006 | 16426868 |
| geographic variation in body size: the effects of ambient temperature and precipitation. | latitudinal trends in body size have been explained as a response to temperature- or water-related factors, which are predictors of primary production. we used the first principal component calculated from three body parameters (weight, body length and the greatest length of the skull) of a sample of mammals from israel and sinai to determine those species that vary in size geographically, and whether such variation is related to annual rainfall, average minimum january temperature and average m ... | 2006 | 16525785 |
| lawsonia intracellularis in rodents from pig farms with the occurrence of porcine proliferative enteropathy. | lawsonia intracellularis is an obligate intracellular bacterium causing proliferative enteropathy in certain species of domestic, laboratory and captive animals. the aim of our study was to detect l. intracellularis in free-living rodents from pig farms in the czech republic. | 2008 | 18673433 |
| prevalence of hantavirus infection in wild rodents from five provinces in korea, 2007. | hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (hfrs) is an infectious disease caused by hantaviruses of the family bunyaviridae. among them, hantaan virus (htnv) is most widely distributed in korea. the striped field mouse, apodemus agrarius, is the natural host of htnv in rural korea. we trapped 766 small mammals of three species (1 eothenomys regulus, 13 crocidura suaveolens, and 752 apodemus agrarius) in five provinces in korea from january to december 2007. we tested 542 rodent sera for htnv antibod ... | 2011 | 21441196 |
| normal and aberrant mesocestoides tetrathyridia from crocidura spp. (soricimorpha) in corsica and spain. | abstract tetrathyridia of mesocestoides sp. were collected from the body cavities of the shrews (soricimorpha), crocidura russula in valencia, spain, and crocidura suaveolens on the mediterranean island of corsica, france. specimens were processed by routine microscopical and histological techniques, including examination with brightfield, phase-contrast, and differential-interference-contrast optics. most tetrathyridia occurred both clustered together inside host-derived fibrotic capsules, but ... | 2011 | 21612421 |
| xenoma-like formations induced by soricimyxum fegati (myxosporea) in three species of shrews (soricomorpha: soricidae), including records of new hosts. | in south bohemia, czech republic, 178 shrews, including 98 common shrews, sorex araneus l., 70 pygmy shrews, sorex minutus l., and 10 lesser white-toothed shrews, crocidura suaveolens (pallas), were examined for soricimyxum fegati prunescu, prunescu, pucek et lom, 2007 infections, using squash preparations of unfixed tissues, histological sections and molecular methods. the infection was found in 51 (52%) s. araneus, 14 (20%) s. minutus and 1 (10%) c. suaveolens. the records of the latter two sp ... | 2011 | 22263306 |
| complete mitochondrial genome of an asian lesser white-toothed shrew, crocidura shantungensis (soricidae). | the complete mitochondrial genome was sequenced and annotated newly from an individual of crocidura shantungensis (soricidae) from korea. the total length of the c. shantungensis genome is 17,160 bp, with a base composition of 32.5% a, 32.7% t, 21.6% c, and 13.1% g. | 2012 | 23688267 |
| the electrocardiogram of european shrews. | a recording method of electrocardiograms in resting animals is described. the electrocardiograms of crocidura russula, crocidura leucodon, crocidura suaveolens, neomys fodiens and sorex araneus are similar to those of other small mammals. t-wave directly follows the qrs-complex. the duration of electrocardiograms depends on heart mass and body temperature. heart rate shows no influence on the duration of electrocardiograms. | 2007 | 2870871 |
| detection of anaplasma phagocytophilum and anaplasma bovis in small wild mammals from taichung and kinmen island, taiwan. | a total of 138 animals from 7 species (apodemus agrarius, bandicota indica, crocidura suaveolens, mus caroli, mus formosanus, rattus losea, and suncus murinus) captured in taichung, located in central taiwan, and kinmen island, an island off the shore of china, were examined for the presence of anaplasma phagocytophilum. the presence of the bacteria, which causes human granulocytic anaplasmosis, was examined by nested pcr targeting the16s rdna. twelve animals (8.7%) from m. caroli and r. losea, ... | 2014 | 24647253 |
| rickettsia species in fleas collected from small mammals in slovakia. | epidemiological and epizootiological studies of rickettsia felis and other rickettsia spp. are very important, because their natural cycle has not yet been established completely. in total, 315 fleas (siphonaptera) of 11 species of ceratophyllidae, hystrichopsyllidae and leptopsyllidae families were tested for the presence of rickettsia species and coxiella burnetii with conventional and specific quantitative real-time pcr assays. fleas were collected from five rodent hosts (myodes glareolus, ap ... | 2015 | 26346455 |
| [paracrenosoma kontrimavichusi n. sp. (nematoda: metrastongyloidea) from the lungs of crocidura leucodon hermann, 1780 and crocidura suaveolens pallas, 1811 in bulgaria (author's transl)]. | | 2006 | 742805 |
| heart and lung adaptations to pregnancy and lactation in a crocidurine shrew. | heart and lung mass, rate of oxygen consumption (vo2), respiration rate (fr), tidal volume (vt), and heart rate (fh), were measured at rest and thermoneutrality in the shrew crocidura russula monacha [(this shrew is claimed to be crocidura suaveolens (catzeflis, f., t. maddalena, s. hellwing and p. vogel (1985). unexpected findings on the taxonomic status of east mediterranean crocidura russula auct. (mammalia, insectivora). zeitschrift fur saugetierkunde 50: 185-201)] in nullipar (n), pregnant ... | 1995 | 8904018 |
| demodex foveolator sp. n. (acari: demodicidae), a new epidermis-dwelling parasite of crocidura suaveolens (pallas, 1821). | a new species, demodex foveolator, is described in all stages of the life cycle from the lesser white-toothed shrew, crocidura suaveolens (pallas, 1821). the species inhabits epidermal pits and apparently is a low-grade pathogen. a suggested trait of structural adaptations of epithelia-dwelling demodicids to their habitats is briefly discussed. | 1984 | 6714845 |
| rodents as a reservoir of infection caused by multiple zoonotic species/genotypes of c. parvum, c. hominis, c. suis, c. scrofarum, and the first evidence of c. muskrat genotypes i and ii of rodents in europe. | cryptosporidium spp. is an important causative agent of intestinal parasitoses-induced diarrhoea in humans and animals worldwide. rodents (small mammals), the main reservoir of infections, are globally expanded and overpopulated, which increases the risk of transfer of human and zoonotic pathogens from the genus cryptosporidium. in this study, cryptosporidium was detected in wild immunocompetent asymptomatic small mammals. altogether 262 fecal samples were collected from five areas in eastern sl ... | 2017 | 28433573 |
| ticks (acari: ixodidae) infesting some small mammals from northern turkey with new tick-host associations and locality records. | ticks are obligate ectoparasites of a vast range of terrestrial vertebrates which may play an important role in the transmission of many zoonotic pathogens to humans and animals. in the current study, we performed an investigation on ticks infesting some small mammals captured from samsun and tokat provinces, northern turkey. one hundred forty-five mammalian samples belonging to four species, namely cricetulus migratorius (n = 1), apodemus flavicollis (n = 17), crocidura suaveolens (n = 102) and ... | 2017 | 29110169 |
| divergent ancestral lineages of newfound hantaviruses harbored by phylogenetically related crocidurine shrew species in korea. | spurred by the recent isolation of a novel hantavirus, named imjin virus (mjnv), from the ussuri white-toothed shrew (crocidura lasiura), targeted trapping was conducted for the phylogenetically related asian lesser white-toothed shrew (crocidura shantungensis). pair-wise alignment and comparison of the s, m and l segments of a newfound hantavirus, designated jeju virus (jjuv), indicated remarkably low nucleotide and amino acid sequence similarity with mjnv. phylogenetic analyses, using maximum ... | 2012 | 22230701 |
| morphometric geographic variation in the asian lesser white-toothed shrew crocidura shantungensis (mammalia, insectivora) in east asia. | this study investigated geographic variation in the asian lesser white-toothed shrew, crocidura shantungensis miller, 1901, among a number of localities in east asia, including the korean peninsula, tsushima island, cheju island, and taiwan, using univariate and multivariate analyses of cranial morphometric characters. sexual differences were found in taiwanese shrews, but were not evident in those from korea or tsushima. the samples from taiwan had a larger overall cranial size than those from ... | 2003 | 12832832 |
| phylogeography of the asian lesser white-toothed shrew, crocidura shantungensis, in east asia: role of the korean peninsula as refugium for small mammals. | many peninsulas in the temperate zone played an important role as refugia of various flora and fauna, and the southern korean peninsula also served as a refugium for many small mammals in east asia during the pleistocene. the asian lesser white-toothed shrew, crocidura shantungensis, is a widely distributed species in east asia, and is an appropriate model organism for exploring the role of the korean peninsula as a refugium of small mammals. here, we investigated phylogenetic relationships and ... | 2018 | 29441472 |
| vocal development during postnatal growth and ear morphology in a shrew that generates seismic vibrations, diplomesodon pulchellum. | the ability of adult and subadult piebald shrews (diplomesodon pulchellum) to produce 160hz seismic waves is potentially reflected in their vocal ontogeny and ear morphology. in this study, the ontogeny of call variables and body traits was examined in 11 litters of piebald shrews, in two-day intervals from birth to 22 days (subadult), and ear structure was investigated in two specimens using micro-computed tomography (micro-ct). across ages, the call fundamental frequency (f0) was stable in squ ... | 2015 | 26112702 |
| mediterranean populations of the lesser white-toothed shrew (crocidura suaveolens group): an unexpected puzzle of pleistocene survivors and prehistoric introductions. | an earlier study revealed the strong phylogeographical structure of the lesser white-toothed shrew (crocidura suaveolens group) within the northern palaearctic. here, we aim to reconstruct the colonization history of mediterranean islands and to clarify the biogeography and phylogeographical relationships of the poorly documented middle east region with the northern palaearctic. we performed analyses on 998-bp-long haplotypes of the mitochondrial cytochrome b gene of 143 samples collected around ... | 2007 | 17688544 |
| comparative fine structure of the epididymal spermatozoa from three korean shrews with considerations on their phylogenetic relationships. | this study examined the fine structures of epididymal spermatozoa on the lesser white-toothed shrew (crocidura suaveolens), the japanese white-toothed shrew (c. dsinezumi) and the big white-toothed shrew (c. lasiura) belonging to the subfamily crocidurinae living in korea. in the spermatozoa of c. suaveolens, the head has a large acrosome, a smooth inner acrosomal membrane and a wavy, finger-like, electron-dense apical body. the neck has a solid proximal centriole that is filled with electron-de ... | 2006 | 16972552 |
| [arthropods of crocidura suaveolens (pall.), (mammalia, insectivora) in poland with special reference to urban agglomeration]. | | 1984 | 6531932 |
| [population of hair cells in the corti's organ of shrews]. | in shrews (family soricidase) the organ of corti was examined by means of the surface specimen technique. the analysis of the qualitative deviations from the normal cellular pattern of corti organ was based on more than 160 ears of shrews (sorex araneus, s. minutus, neomys fodiens, and crocidura suaveolens). the dislocation, rotation, malformation of hair cells, and one finding of the giant outer hair cell are described. the quantitative analyses of the population of hair cells are based on 61 e ... | 1978 | 751340 |
| the fine structure of the outer capsule of the snout muscle spindle in the japanese lesser shrew-mole. | the fine structure of the outer capsule of the snout muscle spindles of the japanese lesser shrew-mole (42 spindles from 9 animals) was described electron microscopically. the capsule of the snout muscle spindle is composed of 5 to 6 layers of the so-called capsule cells derived from the perineural epithelium of the peripheral nerve which supplies the spindle. the capsule cells revealed the presence of numerous pinocytotic vesicles, granular endoplasmic reticulum, abundant ribosomes, mitochondri ... | 1976 | 136218 |
| muscle spindle supply to the snout musculature in moles (talpidae). | to define the anatomical background of the neuromuscular mechanism involved in the movement of the snout of the moles (talpidae) the present histological study was carried out on the snout muscles of this family including the japanese shrew-mole (urotrichus talpoides), japanese lesser shrew-mole (dymecodon pilirostris) and temminck's mole (mogera wogura). the snout musculature consists of five muscles: a) zygomaticus major, b) levator labii superioris, c) levator alae nasi superioris, d) levator ... | 1975 | 132307 |
| anatomical and histological studies of an intersexual lesser shrew (sorex minutus l.), with special reference to the effects of the male hormones on the uterus and vagina. | | 1936 | 17104595 |
| small terrestrial mammals of albania: distribution and diversity (mammalia, eulipotyphla, rodentia). | in this paper new records are reported for 23 species of small terrestrial mammals (stm) of albania collected during the field work campaigns organised in the framework of the project "strengthening capacity in national nature protection - preparation for natura 2000 network" (natural) in albania during the summer and autumn of 2016 and 2017 data on small mammals were primarily collected through sherman live-trapping campaigns in six high priority protected areas of albania: korab-koritnik, bred ... | 2018 | 29670434 |
| molecular survey of tularemia and plague in small mammals from iran. | introduction: plague and tularemia are zoonoses and their causative bacteria are circulating in certain regions of iran. this study was conducted to investigate potential disease reservoirs amongst small wildlife species in different regions of iran. methods: rodents, insectivores and hares from 17 different provinces of the country were collected in 2014 and 2015. samples were taken from the spleens of the animals and real-time pcr was applied to detect nucleic acid sequences that are specific ... | 2018 | 30042927 |
| demodex foveolator (acariformes: demodecidae) from crocidura suaveolens (soricomorpha: soricidae) – the second observation worldwide, and a checklist of the demodecid mites of soricomorphs | thus far, only six species of parasitic mites of the demodecidae family have been recorded in hosts from the soricomorpha: two from the common shrew (sorex araneus), two from the mediterranean water shrew (neomys anomalus), one from the lesser white-toothed shrew (crocidura suaveolens) and one from the european mole (talpa europaea). the present study describes the identification of demodex foveolator in c. suaveolens from the area of poland (the wielkopolska region). this is only the second rec ... | 2019 | 32191421 |
| new records for anaplasma phagocytophilum infection in small mammal species. | tick-borne diseases pose a major threat in public health. the epidemiological dynamics of these diseases depends on the tick vector species and their hosts, as well as the geographical distribution and ecology of both. among many possible hosts for ticks, small mammals have a major role in the development of immature stages of several tick species. small mammals are also important reservoir hosts for several pathogenic agents and possible reservoirs for anaplasma phagocytophilum. in this context ... | 2018 | 29558990 |
| molecular evidence and diversity of the spotted-fever group rickettsia spp. in small mammals from natural, suburban and urban areas of eastern slovakia. | rickettsiae of the spotted fever group are considered as emerging pathogens; ticks, fleas and mites are known to be their vectors. however, the prevalence and species diversity of rickettsiae in small mammals and the role of these hosts in the circulation of bacteria are much less studied. during 2014-2016, a total of 250 small mammals (apodemus agrarius, apodemus flavicollis, apodemus uralensis, myodes glareolus, crocidura leucodon, crocidura suaveolens, micromys minutus, microtus arvalis, micr ... | 2018 | 30207272 |
| chromosomal differentiation in genetically isolated populations of the marsh-specialist crocidura suaveolens (mammalia: soricidae). | the genus crocidura represents a remarkable model for the study of chromosome evolution. this is the case of the lesser white-toothed shrew (crocidura suaveolens), a representative of the palearctic group. although continuously distributed from siberia to central europe, c. suaveolens is a rare, habitat-specialist species in the southwesternmost limit of its distributional range, in the gulf of cádiz (iberian peninsula). in this area, c. suaveolens is restricted to genetically isolated populatio ... | 2020 | 32131436 |