Browsing FAS Scholarly Articles by Keyword "Mammalogy"
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Contrasting Patterns in Mammal–Bacteria Coevolution: Bartonella and Leptospira in Bats and Rodents
(Public Library of Science, 2014)Background: Emerging bacterial zoonoses in bats and rodents remain relatively understudied. We conduct the first comparative host–pathogen coevolutionary analyses of bacterial pathogens in these hosts, using Bartonella ... -
Molecular and Paleontological Evidence for a Post-Cretaceous Origin of Rodents
(Public Library of Science, 2012)The timing of the origin and diversification of rodents remains controversial, due to conflicting results from molecular clocks and paleontological data. The fossil record tends to support an early Cenozoic origin of ...