A genomic perspective on the shortcomings of mitochondrial DNA for “barcoding” identification

D Rubinoff, S Cameron, K Will - Journal of heredity, 2006 - academic.oup.com
Approximately 600-bp sequences of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) have been designated as
“DNA barcodes” and have become one of the most contentious and animated issues in the …

Clade age and not diversification rate explains species richness among animal taxa

MA McPeek, JM Brown - The American Naturalist, 2007 - journals.uchicago.edu
Animal taxa show remarkable variability in species richness across phylogenetic groups.
Most explanations for this disparity postulate that taxa with more species have phenotypes …

Annotated checklist, taxonomy and distribution of rodents in Ethiopia

J Bryja, Y Meheretu, R Šumbera, LA Lavrenchenko - Folia zoologica, 2019 - BioOne
We provide an annotated checklist of rodents of Ethiopia. For each species we show a
distributional map based on critically revised data from:(1) published literature;(2) museum …

Diversity and conservation of Ethiopian mammals: what have we learned in 30 years?

LA Lavrenchenko, A Bekele - Ethiopian journal of biological …, 2017 - ejol.ethernet.edu.et
For over thirty years, the Mammal Research Group of Joint Ethio-Russian Biological
Expedition (JERBE) studied diversity and evolution of Ethiopian mammals. The goal of the …

Complex reticulate evolution of speckled brush‐furred rats (Lophuromys) in the Ethiopian centre of endemism

VA Komarova, DS Kostin, J Bryja, O Mikula… - Molecular …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The Ethiopian highlands represent a remarkable biodiversity 'hot spot'with a very high
number of endemic species, even among vertebrates. Ethiopian representatives of a …

Diversity and evolution of African Grass Rats (Muridae: Arvicanthis)—From radiation in East Africa to repeated colonization of northwestern and southeastern …

J Bryja, P Colangelo, LA Lavrenchenko… - Journal of Zoological …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract African Grass Rats of the genus Arvicanthis Lesson, 1842, are one of the most
important groups of rodents in sub‐Saharan Africa. They are abundant in a variety of open …

Integrative taxonomic revision of the Ethiopian endemic rodent genus Stenocephalemys (Muridae: Murinae: Praomyini) with the description of two new species

D Mizerovská, O Mikula, Y Meheretu… - Journal of Vertebrate …, 2020 - BioOne
Ethiopian rats (genus Stenocephalemys) represent a monophyletic group of Ethiopian
endemic rodents that diverged in the Ethiopian Highlands during the Pleistocene. Because …

Ethiopian highlands as a cradle of the African fossorial root-rats (genus Tachyoryctes), the genetic evidence

R Šumbera, J Krásová, LA Lavrenchenko… - Molecular Phylogenetics …, 2018 - Elsevier
Root-rats of the genus Tachyoryctes (Spalacidae) are subterranean herbivores occupying
open humid habitats in the highlands of Eastern Africa. There is strong disagreement about …

Genomic diversity, evolutionary history, and species limits of the endemic Ethiopian laminate-toothed rats (genus Otomys, Rodentia: Muridae)

D Mizerovská, AA Martynov, O Mikula… - Zoological Journal of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The Ethiopian Highlands represent one of the most important centres of endemism
on Earth. Six endemic species of laminate-toothed rats have been reported from Ethiopia in …

Rodents of Choke Mountain and surrounding areas (Ethiopia): the Blue Nile gorge as a strong biogeographic barrier

DS Kostin, AA Martynov, VA Komarova… - Journal of Vertebrate …, 2020 - BioOne
Faunal studies of rodent assemblages from the areas on and around Choke Mountain (north-
western Ethiopia) were conducted during two field seasons in 2012 and 2018. Here we …