Hystrix-Italian Journal of Mammalogy最新文献

{"title":"Assessing a potential non-invasive method for viral diagnostic purposes in European squirrels.","authors":"D. Everest, Dannielle Amber Rose Tolhurst-Cherriman, H. Davies, A. Dastjerdi, A. Ashton, T. Blackett, A. Meredith, E. Milne, A. Mill, C. Shuttleworth","doi":"10.4404/HYSTRIX-00128-2018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4404/HYSTRIX-00128-2018","url":null,"abstract":"Viral infections globally threaten wild and captive mammal populations, with surveillance options limited by a lack of non-invasive diagnostics; especially when infection is asymptomatic in nature. We explored the potential for hair samples collected from red (Sciurus vulgaris) and grey (Sciurus carolinensis) squirrels to provide a means of screening for adenovirus (ADV) and squirrelpox virus (SQPV) using evolving polymerase chain reaction (PCR) assays. An initial pilot study phase utilised samples opportunistically harvested from grey squirrels controlled in Gwynedd, United Kingdom (UK). The screening of 319 grey squirrel carcasses revealed 58% spleen ADV DNA qPCR and 69% SQPV antibody enzyme linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) positives. We developed new nested ADV and SQPV qPCRs and examined tail hair samples from a sub-set of 80 of these 319 sampled squirrels and these assays amplified ADV and SQPV DNA in a higher proportion of animals than the original qPCR (94% and 21% respectively). Tail hair samples obtained from six Cumbrian red squirrels which had died from squirrelpox disease also revealed 100% SQPV and 50% ADV DNA positive by the nested qPCR assays. These findings indicate enhanced sensitivity for the new platform. The integration of this non-invasive approach in assessing viral infection has wide application in epidemiological studies of wild mammal populations, in particular, during conservation translocations, where asymptomatic infections are of concern.","PeriodicalId":55036,"journal":{"name":"Hystrix-Italian Journal of Mammalogy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2019-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76506998","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Ecological character displacement in mandibular morphology of three sympatric horseshoe bats","authors":"Anca Dragu, G. Csorba, R. Băncilă","doi":"10.4404/HYSTRIX-00120-2018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4404/HYSTRIX-00120-2018","url":null,"abstract":"1King’s College London, Randall Division of Cell and Molecular Biophysics, London, United Kingdom 2Department of Zoology, Hungarian Natural History Museum, Baross u. 13., Budapest, Hungary 3University Ovidius Constanţa, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Al. Universităţii, corp B, Constanţa, Romania 4Institute of Speleology “Emil Racoviţǎ” of Romanian Academy, Calea 13 Septembrie, No. 13, 050711, Bucharest, Romania","PeriodicalId":55036,"journal":{"name":"Hystrix-Italian Journal of Mammalogy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2019-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73825689","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The role of autumnal swarming behaviour and ambient air temperature in the variation of body mass in temperate bat species","authors":"Maurycy Ignaczak, T. Postawa, G. Lesiński, Iwona Gottfried","doi":"10.4404/HYSTRIX-00104-2018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4404/HYSTRIX-00104-2018","url":null,"abstract":"1Polish Society for Bat Protection, Baczyńskiego 6/13, 98-220 Zduńska Wola, Poland 2Institute of Systematics and Evolution of Animals, Polish Academy of Sciences, Sławkowska 17, 31-016 Kraków, Poland 3Department of Zoology, Faculty of Animal Science, Warsaw University of Life Sciences (SGGW), Ciszewskiego 8, 02-787 Warsaw, Poland 4Department of Behavioral Ecology, University of Wroclaw, ul. Sienkiewicza 21, 50-335 Wrocław, Poland","PeriodicalId":55036,"journal":{"name":"Hystrix-Italian Journal of Mammalogy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2019-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80491498","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Diet of the Notch-Eared Bat (Myotis emarginatus) across the Iberian Peninsula analysed by Amplicon Metabarcoding","authors":"N. Vallejo, J. Aihartza, U. Goiti, Aitor Arrizabalaga-Escudero, Carles Flaquer, Xavier Puig, Miren Aldasoro, Unai Baroja, I. Garin","doi":"10.4404/HYSTRIX-00189-2019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4404/HYSTRIX-00189-2019","url":null,"abstract":"Myotis emarginatus is one of the few bats known to feed mostly on spiders. In order to study the importance of this type of prey, we analysed the species’ diet in five colonies across the Iberian Peninsula using amplicon metabarcoding in order to describe its composition at the species level, and analyse its geographic variability within the peninsula. We identified 138 prey species, belonging to 11 different arthropod orders. Among them, 45 species of spiders were identified, mostly of the orb-web building guild, as consumed by 82 out of 106 studied bats, corresponding to every colony and season sampled. Besides, lepidopterans and dipterans were also consumed in every colony. Among the latter, the stable fly Stomoxys calcitrans was especially important in two of the colonies, showing thatM. emarginatus can also opportunistically exploit different resources or foraging grounds, such as cattle sheds, which affects the composition of its diet also at ordinal level of prey.","PeriodicalId":55036,"journal":{"name":"Hystrix-Italian Journal of Mammalogy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2019-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74014556","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Health survey on the wolf population in Tuscany, Italy","authors":"C. Ambrogi, C. Ragagli, N. Decaro, E. Ferroglio, M. Mencucci, M. Apollonio, A. Mannelli","doi":"10.4404/HYSTRIX-00100-2018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4404/HYSTRIX-00100-2018","url":null,"abstract":"1Comando Unità Tutela Forestale Ambientale Agroalimentare Carabinieri 2Dipartimento di Medicina Veterinaria, Strada Provinciale per Casamassima 3, 70010 Valenzano (Ba) 3Dipartimento di Scienze Veterinarie, Largo Paolo Braccini 2, 10095 Grugliasco (TO) 4Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Sassari, Sassari, Sardinia, Italy 5Dipartimento di Scienze Veterinarie, Largo Paolo Braccini 2, 10095 Grugliasco (TO)","PeriodicalId":55036,"journal":{"name":"Hystrix-Italian Journal of Mammalogy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2019-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77589726","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Eastern cottontail ( Sylvilagus floridanus ) in Tuscany (Central Italy): weak evidence for its role as a host of EBHSV and RHDV","authors":"Alessio D' Angelo, J. Cerri, P. Cavadini, A. Lavazza, L. Capucci, M. Ferretti","doi":"10.4404/HYSTRIX-00146-2018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4404/HYSTRIX-00146-2018","url":null,"abstract":"1Scuola di Agraria, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Piazzale delle Cascine 18, 50144 Firenze, Italy 2Istituto di Management, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Piazza Martiri della Libertà, 56127 Pisa, Italy 3Istituto Superiore per la Protezione e la Ricerca Ambientale (ISPRA), Piazzale dei Marmi 12, 57123 Livorno, Italy 4Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale della Lombardia e dell’Emilia-Romagna “Bruno Ubertini”, Via Bianchi 7/9, 25124 Brescia, Italy 5Regione Toscana, Corso Gramsci 110, 51100 Pistoia, Italy","PeriodicalId":55036,"journal":{"name":"Hystrix-Italian Journal of Mammalogy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2019-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84830167","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Habitat type and seasonality influence the isotopic trophic niche of small mammals in a neotropical savanna","authors":"J. F. Ribeiro, A. Guaraldo, G. B. Nardoto, Guilherme Santoro, E. M. Vieira","doi":"10.4404/HYSTRIX-00150-2018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4404/HYSTRIX-00150-2018","url":null,"abstract":"Acknowledgements While conducting this research, EMV received a personal research grant from the Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico CNPq; No. 308992/2013-0), JFR received a scholarship from the CNPq, and ACG received a post-doctoral Fellowship from the Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior – CAPES (Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel; CAPES/PNPD No. 1459754). Additional financial support was provided by a research grant from Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico—CNPq (Rede Sisbiota – ComCerrado, Grant no. 563134/2010-0, project coordinated by Dr. Mercedes Bustamante). Abstract","PeriodicalId":55036,"journal":{"name":"Hystrix-Italian Journal of Mammalogy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2019-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86200780","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Coming back home: recolonisation of abandoned dens by crested porcupines Hystrix cristata and European badgers Meles meles after wood-cutting and riparian vegetation mowing events","authors":"E. Mori, G. Assandri","doi":"10.4404/HYSTRIX-00176-2019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4404/HYSTRIX-00176-2019","url":null,"abstract":"Semifossorial species excavate dens and are considered as landscape engineers, often responsible for soil oxygenation, shuffling, landslides and floods. The crested porcupine and the European badger are semifossorial mammals sharing dens in central Italy. Both species localise their setts mainly in densely vegetated areas, providing them with cover and protection from local predators and poachers. This is particularly evident for the porcupine, widely poached in central and southern Italy, whereas badgers may locally exploit burrows also in open and periurban areas. Wood-cutting and mowing of riparian vegetation surrounding den setts force both porcupines and badgers to leave their burrows. We evaluated the probability of den re-occupancy in the years following the vegetation removal, through intensive camera-trapping at 14 den setts monitored for 9 years. We performed GLMMs to test the annual probability of sett occupancy by the two species after vegetation disturbance events. The probability of re-occupying the burrow by porcupines increased with increasing time from the disturbance cessation. A similar pattern was also observed for the badger, which probability of den occupancy was also negatively correlated with the porcupine presence at the same den, confirming the aggressive behavior of this rodent. We also tested whether, since the first year after vegetation removal, the proportion of years of occupation by porcupines on the total of years has been affected by the disturbance repetition. This effect was found to be significant only for the badger. The crested porcupine, protected by international and national laws, is more sensitive than the badger, protected according to the Italian national law, to vegetation removal. A single disturbance event is sufficient to force it to abandon the den sett, followed by a slow recolonisation with growing vegetation. Conversely, the badger is sensitive to continuous vegetation removal whereas it can colonise porcupine dens abandoned after single disturbances.","PeriodicalId":55036,"journal":{"name":"Hystrix-Italian Journal of Mammalogy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2019-05-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81359560","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Ethanol versus swabs: what is a better tool to preserve faecal samples for non-invasive genetic analyses?","authors":"Edoardo Velli, E. Fabbri, M. Galaverni, F. Mattucci, L. Mattioli, Luigi Molinari, R. Caniglia","doi":"10.4404/HYSTRIX-00183-2019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4404/HYSTRIX-00183-2019","url":null,"abstract":"Acknowledgements We are particular grateful to E. Bottero (University of Sassari), D. Passilongo (University of Sassari), S. Luccarini (University of Sassari), F. Morimando (Univeristy of Siena), D. Berzi (Ischetus), M. Canestrini (Wolf Apennine Center) and all the students, apprentices and volunteers, for sample collection, and to N. Mucci (ISPRA), E. Randi (University of Bologna), M. Apollonio (University of Sassari), M. Scandura (University of Sassari), A. Canu (University of Sassari), W. Reggioni (Wolf Apennine Center), F. Moretti (Wolf Apennine Center) and P. Ciucci (Univeristy of Rome La Sapienza), for their useful suggestions on the manuscript. We are indebted with the Editor in Chief, the Associate Editor and two anonymous referees for their constructive comments and insightful ideas that deeply improved the manuscript.","PeriodicalId":55036,"journal":{"name":"Hystrix-Italian Journal of Mammalogy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2019-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82316998","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The earliest Hystrix refossa : a new Early Villafranchian record from Milia (Grevena, Macedonia, Greece)","authors":"G. Lazaridis, E. Tsoukala, L. Maul","doi":"10.4404/HYSTRIX-00140-2018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4404/HYSTRIX-00140-2018","url":null,"abstract":"Acknowledgements We thank Professor emeritus G.D. Koufos (Thessaloniki, Greece) for providing access to the Gerakarou material, S. Rhodes (Tübingen, Germany) for improving the English and fruitful discussion, and L. van den Hoek Ostende (Leiden) for critical remarks that considerably improved the text. Also the anonymous reviewers who contributed to the improvement of the text are deeply thanked. Abstract","PeriodicalId":55036,"journal":{"name":"Hystrix-Italian Journal of Mammalogy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2019-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82798750","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}