Human-animal interactions and bat coronavirus spillover potential among rural residents in Southern China by Hongying Li, Emma Mendelsohn, Chen Zong, Wei Zhang, Emily Hagan, Ning Wang, Shiyue Li, Hong Yan, Huimin Huang, Guangjian Zhu, Noam Ross, Aleksei Chmura, Philip Terry, Mark Fielder, Maureen Miller, Zhengli Shi, Peter Daszak

“…Nine participants (0.6%) tested positive for bat coronaviruses. 265 (17%) participants reported severe acute respiratory infections (SARI) and/or influenza-like illness (ILI) symptoms in the past year, which were associated with poultry, carnivore, rodent/shrew, or bat contact, with variability by family income and district of residence. …”
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Sentinels in the shadows: Exploring Toxoplasma gondii and other Sarcocystidae parasites in synanthropic rodents and their public health implications by Filippo Maria Dini, Monica Caffara, Alice Magri, Alessia Cantori, Valentina Luci, Antonio Monno, Roberta Galuppi

“…We examined 97 brown rats (Rattus norvegicus), 67 black rats (R. rattus), 47 house mice (Mus musculus), and 1 common shrew (Sorex araneus). PCR tests were conducted on the brain, heart, and tongue tissues. …”
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Evolution of the patella and patelloid in marsupial mammals by Alice L. Denyer, Sophie Regnault, John R. Hutchinson

“…Our results, from sampling about 19% of extant marsupial species-level diversity, include new images and descriptions of the fibrocartilaginous patelloid in Thylacinus cynocephalus (the thylacine or “marsupial wolf”) and other marsupials as well as the ossified patella in Notoryctes ‘marsupial moles’, Caenolestes shrew opossums, bandicoots and bilbies. We found novel evidence of an ossified patella in one specimen of Macropus rufogriseus (Bennett’s wallaby), with hints of similar variation in other species. …”
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Emerging hantaviruses in Central Argentina: First case of Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome caused by Alto Paraguay virus, and a novel orthohantavirus in Scapteromys aquaticus rodent by Carla Bellomo, Daniel Oscar Alonso, Tamara Ricardo, Rocío Coelho, Sebastián Kehl, Natalia Periolo, Viviana Azogaray, Natalia Casas, Mariano Ottonelli, Laura Cristina Bergero, María Carolina Cudós, María Andrea Previtali, Valeria Paula Martinez

“…An increasing number of rodents, bats, shrew and moles have been identified as hantavirus reservoirs. …”
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Mammals of the Dnipro floodplain in Kyiv: current state and changes for the last 100 years by Ivan Parnikoza, Igor Zagorodniuk

“…It is also necessary to take a number of mammal species under the protection of the local council, which is especially important in relation to the European mole, Eurasian water shrew, harvest mouse, forest marten, European badger, common weasel, roe deer, and European water vole. …”
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Intertextuality of the Personosphere as a Factor of Meta-Genre (Clifford Simak “Shakespeare’s Planet”) by Dan Paranyuk, Alyona Tychinina

“…Besides, the personosphere of a fantasy novel with several fictional narratives also includes the classic’s texts, such as “Hamlet”, “Twelfth Night”, “The End Praises the End”, “The Comedy of Errors”, “King Lear”, “Macbeth”, “Othello”, “Pericles”, “The Taming of the Shrew”, “Richard III”, and “Titus Andronicus”. In this case, in Simak’s “Shakespeare’s Planet”, they perform the function of additional (implicit) narratives, and, consequently, as a particular (intertextual) link in the personosphere. …”
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Variability and variation in Rhyncholestes raphanurus Osgood (Paucituberculata, Caenolestidae) by Baltazar González, Federico Brook, Gabriel M. Martin

“…Abstract Background Caenolestids are a group of poorly known South American marsupials with a restricted distribution in Páramo and Subpáramo environments of the Andes from Colombia and western Venezuela to Bolivia (represented by the genera Caenolestes and Lestoros), and Valdivian rainforest in southern Chile (including a separate population in Chiloé Island) and Argentina, where a single species lives: the Long-nosed shrew opossum (Rhyncholestes raphanurus). The objectives of this work were to analyze the intraspecific variability of R. raphanurus, which includes an anatomical description of the skull and dentition, describe its geographic variation, test for sexual dimorphism, and assess potential differences between continental and Island populations. …”
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Morphology and Mitochondrial Lineage Investigations Corroborate the Systematic Status and Pliocene Colonization of <i>Suncus niger</i> (Mammalia: Eulipotyphla) in the Western Ghats... by Shantanu Kundu, Manokaran Kamalakannan, Ah Ran Kim, Vishwanath D. Hegde, Dhriti Banerjee, Won-Kyo Jung, Young-Mog Kim, Hyun-Woo Kim

“…The Indian highland shrew, <i>Suncus niger</i> (Horsfield, 1851), is the least studied soricid species from its original range distribution in Southern India, with several systematics conundrums. …”
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Molecular Identification of Sarcocystis sp. (Apicomplexa, Sarcocystidae) in Offspring of Tengmalm's Owls, Aegolius funereus (Aves, Strigidae) by Ondřej Máca, Ondřej Máca, Marek Kouba, Erkki Korpimäki, David González-Solís

“…Af) is closely related to Sarcocystis strixi in the barred owl (Strix varia Barton, 1799) from the USA and Sarcocystis sp. isolate 5 in the European shrew (Sorex araneus Linnaeus, 1758) from the Czech Republic. …”
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Co-Radiation of <i>Leptospira</i> and Tenrecidae (Afrotheria) on Madagascar by Yann Gomard, Steven M. Goodman, Voahangy Soarimalala, Magali Turpin, Guenaëlle Lenclume, Marion Ah-Vane, Christopher D. Golden, Pablo Tortosa

“…Distinct <i>L. mayottensis</i> lineages were identified in shrew tenrecs (<i>Microgale cowani</i> and <i>Nesogale dobsoni</i>) on Madagascar, and later in an introduced population of spiny tenrecs (<i>Tenrec ecaudatus</i>) on Mayotte. …”
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Chromosomal Evolution of the Talpinae by Larisa S. Biltueva, Nadezhda V. Vorobieva, Natalya A. Lemskya, Polina L. Perelman, Vladimir A. Trifonov, Victor V. Panov, Alexey V. Abramov, Shin-ichiro Kawada, Natalya A. Serdukova, Alexandr S. Graphodatsky

“…Zoo-FISH with sorted chromosomes of the Siberian mole (<i>Talpa altaica)</i> on chromosome sets of the small-toothed mole (<i>E. parvidens)</i>, the small Japanese mole (<i>Mogera imaizumii</i>) from the closely related genus, and the Japanese shrew mole (<i>Urotrichus talpoides)</i> from the tribe <i>Urotrichini</i> made it possible to identify syntenic regions between these species. …”
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Analysis of risk factors for carotid intima-media thickness in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus in Western China assessed by logistic regression combined with a decision tree... by Yuan-Yuan Zhou, Hong-Mei Qiu, Ying Yang, Yuan-Yuan Han

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Host-Dependent Clustering of Campylobacter Strains From Small Mammals in Finland by Satu Olkkola, Mirko Rossi, Mirko Rossi, Anniina Jaakkonen, Maria Simola, Jouni Tikkanen, Marjaana Hakkinen, Pirkko Tuominen, Otso Huitu, Jukka Niemimaa, Heikki Henttonen, Rauni Kivistö

“…Interestingly, all house mouse (Mus musculus) and shrew (Sorex spp.) samples were negative for Campylobacter spp. …”
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Common and specific gene signatures among three different endometriosis subtypes by Li Jiang, Mengmeng Zhang, Sixue Wang, Yuanyuan Han, Xiaoling Fang

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Nernst-Planck-Gaussian modelling of electrodiffusional recovery from ephaptic excitation between mammalian cardiomyocytes by Joshua A. Morris, Oliver J. Bardsley, Samantha C. Salvage, Antony P. Jackson, Hugh R. Matthews, Christopher L-H. Huang, Christopher L-H. Huang

“…Varying a, and DNa and DCl markedly affected recovery time-courses with logarithmic and double-logarithmic relationships, Varying w exerted minimal effects.Conclusion: We thereby characterise the properties of, and through comparing atrial, ventricular and purkinje recovery times with interspecies in vivo background cardiac cycle duration data, (blue whale ∼2000, human∼90, Etruscan shrew, ∼40 ms) can determine physical limits to, electrodiffusive contributions to ephaptic recovery.…”
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Gender clashes and faux pas. the political diaries of Ulla Lindström, Swedish minister in 1954-66 by Gunnel Karlsson

“…She started as the good-looking “pin-up girl” of the Parliament and ended up as the “shrew” of the party, the faux pas queen who was too talkative and thus in need of a muzzle. …”
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Animal models for HCV and HBV studies by Isabelle Chemin

“…The only alternative source of HBV-permissive hepatocytes is the Asian tree shrew Tupaia belangeri. Though experimental infection of these squirrel-like mammals, phylogenetically related to primates, results only in a mild, transient replication, primary hepatocytes isolated from T. belangeri turned out to be a reliable tool for in vitro HBV infection experiments.…”
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