| historical biogeography at the crossroads of the northern continents: molecular phylogenetics of red-backed voles (rodentia: arvicolinae). | evolutionary relationships of red-backed voles and their relatives were examined and used to test biogeographic hypotheses. sequences of the mitochondrial cytochrome b gene were obtained for 25 individuals representing alticola macrotis, clethrionomys californicus, c. gapperi, c. glareolus, c. rutilus, and c. rufocanus. these were combined with 21 partial sequences from genbank for c. regulus, c. rex, c. rufocanus, c. rutilus, eothenomys imaizumii, e. melanogaster, phaulomys andersoni, and p. sm ... | 2004 | 15012954 |
| broadening diversity in the arostrilepis horrida complex: arostrilepis kontrimavichusi n. sp. (cyclophyllidea: hymenolepididae) in the western red-backed vole myodes californicus (merriam) (cricetidae: arvicolinae) from temperate latitudes of the pacific northwest, north america. | specimens originally identified provisionally as hymenolepis horrida (linstow, 1901) [later arostrilepis horrida (linstow, 1901)] in myodes californicus (merriam) from near the pacific coastal zone of southern oregon are revised. specimens in western red-backed voles represent an undescribed species of arostrilepis mas coma & tenora, 1997, contributing to recognition and resolution of a broadening complex encompassing cryptic diversity for these hymenolepidid tapeworms distributed across the hol ... | 2016 | 27221000 |
| mycophagy by small mammals in the coniferous forests of north america: nutritional value of sporocarps of rhizopogon vinicolor, a common hypogeous fungus. | we evaluated the nutritional value of sporocarps of rhizopogon vinicolor, a common hypogeous fungus in the coniferous forests of north america, for two small mammal species: the californian red-backed vole (clethrionomys californicus) and the northern flying squirrel (glaucomys sabrinus). although the nitrogen concentration of sporocarps was high, much of it was in non-protein form or associated with cell walls, suggesting that it may be of low nutritional value or protected from mammalian diges ... | 1999 | 10335615 |
| insights into recently fragmented vole populations from combined genetic and demographic data. | we combined demographic and genetic data to evaluate the effects of habitat fragmentation on the population structure of the california red-backed vole (clethrionomys californicus). we analysed variation in the mitochondrial dna (mtdna) control region and five nuclear microsatellite loci in small samples collected from two forest fragments and an unfragmented control site in 1990-91. we intensively sampled the same forest fragments and two different control sites in 1998 and 1999. vole abundance ... | 2002 | 11972758 |