The black rhinoceros is again on the verge of extinction due to unsustainable poaching in its
native range. Despite a wide historic distribution, the black rhinoceros was traditionally …

Within southern Africa, a link between past climatic changes and faunal diversification has
been hypothesized for a diversity of taxa. To test the hypothesis that evolutionary …

In order to evaluate the contribution of geological, environmental, and climatic changes to
the spatial distribution of genetic variation of Mastomys natalensis, we analysed cytochrome …

Background Intraspecific genetic variation of African fauna has been significantly affected by
pronounced climatic fluctuations in Plio-Pleistocene, but, with the exception of large …

The cat flea, Ctenocephalides felis, is an obligate haematophagous ectoparasite of wildlife
and domestic cats and dogs worldwide. Since cat fleas can affect the health of humans and …

Abstract Aim Species living in East African montane forests have highly fragmented
distributions. P lio‐P leistocene climatic cycles, however, may have allowed temporary …

Modelling of anthropogenic induced climate suggests more frequent and severe heatwaves
in the future, which are likely to result in the mass die-off of several species of organisms …

African mole-rats (Bathyergidae) are an intensively studied family of subterranean rodents
including three highly social and three solitary genera. Although their phylogenetic …

We conducted a survey for group-specific indirect immunofluorescence antibody to
mammarenaviruses by using Lassa fever and Mopeia virus antigens on serum specimens of …

Rodents are a speciose group of mammals with strong zoonotic potential. Some parts of
Africa are still underexplored for the occurrence of rodent-borne pathogens, despite this high …