| the palaeolithic cave of kalamakia (mani peninsula), greece: new insights on the palaeoenvironment using microvertebrates and mesowear analysis of ruminant teeth. | in the present study, results from the examination of mammalian teeth from the cave of kalamakia with modern techniques, as well as a qualitative overview of the microvertebrate and lithic material, are presented together with a revision of previous related work done for the site, in order to assess the palaeoenvironmental conditions in the area and the role they played in the neanderthal's repeated occupation of the cave. geometric morphometrics analyses performed on the first lower molars of m ... | 2020 | 32490227 |
| 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 |
| a new pericentromeric repeated dna sequence in microtus thomasi. | several karyotypic forms have been previously described in populations of the vole species microtus thomasi from greece. in particular, the karyomorphs microtus thomasi 'thomasi' and 'atticus' differ in x chromosome morphology, being acrocentric and subtelocentric, respectively. furthermore, remarkable heterochromatin content variability has been described in sex chromosomes of both karyomorphs. genomic dna digestion with alui allowed us to clone an 884 bp long repeated dna sequence (mth-alu900) ... | 2009 | 19372666 |
| molecular and physical characterization of the complex pericentromeric heterochromatin of the vole species microtus thomasi. | a new repeated dna from microtus thomasi, mth-alu2.2, was cloned and characterized and is presented here for the first time. digestion of genomic dna from m. thomasi with alui restriction enzyme revealed a 2.2-kb repetitive dna sequence with a high at content (69%). this sequence consists of a tandemly repeated nonanucleotide of the consensus sequence cacaatgta, which constitutes approximately 93-95% of the total unit length. the location of the mth-alu2.2 sequence in the karyotype was determine ... | 2014 | 25402553 |
| extensive sex chromosome polymorphism of microtus thomasi/microtus atticus species complex associated with cryptic chromosomal rearrangements and independent accumulation of heterochromatin. | the sibling species microtus thomasi and m. atticus represent probably the highest karyotypic diversity within the genus microtus and are an interesting model for chromosomal evolution studies. in addition to variation in autosomes, they show a high intraspecific variation in the size and morphology of both sex chromosomes. we analyzed individuals with different sex chromosome constitutions using 3 painting probes, 2 from y chromosome variants and 1 from the small arm of the submetacentric x chr ... | 2017 | 28571006 |