Food safety and quality are nowadays a major concern. Any case of food alteration,
especially when reported by the media, has a great impact on public opinion. There is an …

The need for accurate and reliable methods for animal species identification has steadily
increased during past decades, particularly with the recent food scares and the overall crisis …

" Rather than favoring only one approach, Juan J. Morrone proposes a comprehensive
treatment of the developments and theories of evolutionary biogeography. Evolutionary …

The family Cervidae includes 40 species of deer distributed throughout the northern
hemisphere, as well as in South America and Southeast Asia. Here, we examine the …

Systematic relationships of cervids have been controversial for decades. Despite new input
from molecular systematics, consensus could only be partially reached. The initial, gross …

The phylogenetic pattern and timing of the radiation of Old World deer was determined
based on the complete mitochondrial cytochrome b gene from 33 Cervinae taxa. Using …

We perform Bayesian phylogenetic analyses on cytochrome b sequences from 264 of the
290 extant cetartiodactyl mammals (whales plus even-toed ungulates) and two recently …

The increasing number of deer–vehicle-accidents (DVAs) and the resulting economic costs
have promoted numerous studies on behavioural and environmental factors which may …

Aim To investigate the phylogeographical patterns of red deer (Cervus elaphus) in Europe,
and to disentangle the influence of ancient (eg Pleistocene ice ages) from more recent …

Coxiella burnetii is a multi‐host bacterium that causes Q fever in humans, a zoonosis that is
emerging worldwide. The ecology of C. burnetii in wildlife is still poorly understood and the …