Turkey (Türkiye) lies at the nexus of Europe, the Middle East, Central Asia and Africa.
Turkey's location, mountains, and its encirclement by three seas have resulted in high …

Squirrels of the World, written by scientists with more than 100 years of collective experience
studying these popular mammals, is the first comprehensive examination of all 285 species …

The substantial body of research on Holarctic ground squirrels amassed over the past
century documents considerable variability in morphological, cytogenetic, ecological, and …

Iran, lying on the crossroa Although being located ei Oriental region on one both of them as
well. First and coincides with the Further infonnation colle the British Museum ha id 1 of …

In zoological nomenclature, to be potentially valid, nomenclatural novelties (ie, new nomina
and nomenclatural acts) need first to be made available, that is, published in works …

The utility of DNA Barcoding for species identification and discovery has catalyzed a
concerted effort to build the global reference library; however, many animal groups of …

The present study aimed to understand how Anatolian ground squirrels, Spermophilus
xanthoprymnus (Bennett, 1835), have responded to global climate changes through the Late …

Studies linking postcranial morphology with locomotion in mammals are common. However,
such studies are mostly restricted to caviomorphs in rodents. We present here data from …

Spermophilus citellus is a medium-sized sciurid commonly called the European ground
squirrel. The species inhabits grasslands in central and southeastern Europe on a range …

Seventy-four Gram-negative, motile, slightly curved rod-shaped, microaerophilic, oxidase-
positive and catalase-negative isolates, recovered from fecal samples of the Anatolian …