{"pk":39810,"title":"Mice on the borders: genetic determinations of rat and house mouse species in Lampedusa and Pantelleria islands (Southern Italy)","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Biogeography and the occurrence of small mammals are usually hard to investigate due to the small size and secretive habits of these mammals. Available data are particularly insufficient on minor islands and at national borders, where research efforts are usually scarce. Here we briefly updated the knowledge on murid rodents on two remote Italian small islands (Lampedusa and Pantelleria) at the southernmost Italian borders. During summer 2019, house mice and rats were sampled in Lampedusa and Pantelleria and molecular markers were sequenced for species identification. The new sequences of \nMus domesticus\n were also compared with samples from previous works collected in Lampedusa, Pantelleria, and several localities in the Mediterranean basin. Moreover, our analyses provided the first genetic evidence of the occurrence of \nRattus norvegicus \nin Lampedusa. To conclude, \nR. rattus \nwas confirmed to be present in Pantelleria. The newly collected haplotype of \nM. domesticus\n from Pantelleria is similar to those currently known for Sicily, whereas the new haplotype from Lampedusa partially diverges from the ones previously described, and clusters with haplotypes from North Africa and the Middle East.","language":"en","license":{"name":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0","short_name":"CC BY 4.0","text":"Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\n\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0"},"keywords":[{"word":"alien species"},{"word":"house mouse"},{"word":"island ecosystems"},{"word":"Mammalia"},{"word":"Muridae"},{"word":"rats"}],"section":"Articles","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2nv5259q","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Chiara","middle_name":"","last_name":"Sciandra","name_suffix":"","institution":"CREA-DC Firenze","department":"None"},{"first_name":"Emiliano","middle_name":"","last_name":"Mori","name_suffix":"","institution":"CNR - IRET Sesto Fiorentino (FI)","department":"None"},{"first_name":"Emanuela","middle_name":"","last_name":"Solano","name_suffix":"","institution":"Università di Roma \"La Sapienza\", Roma, Italy","department":"None"},{"first_name":"Giuseppe","middle_name":"","last_name":"Mazza","name_suffix":"","institution":"CREA - Firenze","department":"None"},{"first_name":"Andrea","middle_name":"","last_name":"Viviano","name_suffix":"","institution":"CNR - IRET Sesto Fiorentino","department":"None"},{"first_name":"Manuel","middle_name":"","last_name":"Scarfò","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Turin, Italy","department":"None"},{"first_name":"Fabio","middle_name":"","last_name":"Bona","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Milan, Italy","department":"None"},{"first_name":"Flavia","middle_name":"","last_name":"Annesi","name_suffix":"","institution":"Università di Roma \"La Sapienza\", Roma, Italy","department":"None"},{"first_name":"Riccardo","middle_name":"","last_name":"Castiglia","name_suffix":"","institution":"Università di Roma \"La Sapienza\", Roma, Italy","department":"None"}],"date_submitted":"2021-12-16T13:13:34Z","date_accepted":"2021-12-16T13:13:34Z","date_published":"2022-01-26T08:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/biogeographia/article/39810/galley/29984/download/"}]}