Islands are natural laboratories for the study of speciation mechanisms, such as allopatric
diversification and adaptive radiation. Our study focuses on the long northern arm of …

The striped-back shrew group demonstrates remarkable variation in skull and body size, tail
length, and brightness of the dorsal stripe; and karyotypic and DNA variation has been …

The hyperdiverse shrew genus Crocidura is one of few small mammal genera distributed
across Sundaland and all of its boundaries. This represents a rare opportunity to study the …

The Pleistocene was characterized by climate fluctuations with rapid transitions between
glacial and interglacial periods. East Asia's land bridge dynamics and monsoon system …

The genus Scotophilus contains 21 currently recognized species ranging throughout Africa
and Southeast Asia. Among the 13 species recognized from continental Africa, systematic …

Understanding intra-island patterns of evolutionary divergence, including cases of cryptic
diversity, is a crucial step towards deciphering speciation processes. Cyprus is an oceanic …

After nearly a decade of field inventories in which we preserved voucher specimens of the
small terrestrial mammals of Sulawesi, we combined qualitative and quantitative analyses of …

In this study we compared the phylogeographic patterns of two Rusa species, Rusa unicolor
and Rusa timorensis, in order to understand what drove and maintained differentiation …

Complex geological processes often drive biotic diversification on islands. The islands of
Sumatra and Java have experienced dramatic historical changes, including isolation by …

Background Crocidura, the most speciose mammalian genus, occurs across much of Asia,
Europe and Africa. The taxonomy of Chinese representatives has been studied primarily …