Common Voles of the Microtus arvalis Group in the Urals: Genome Instability and Chromosomal Polymorphism

Differentiating sibling species in the Quaternary fossil record: a comparison of morphological and molecular methods to identifyMicrotus arvalisandM. rossiaemeridionalis(Arvicolinae, Rodenia)

“…Fossil remains of M. arvalis sensu lato (the common vole or East European vole, which are not yet identified to species level) are known in the Ural region back to the first half of the Late Pleistocene, being especially abundant in Holocene deposits of Atlantic and Subatlantic age Smirnov 1993 (Gileva et al 2000(Gileva et al , 2005.…”

Concentrations of Selected Heavy Metals in Bones and Femoral Bone Structure of Bank (Myodes glareolus) and Common (Microtus arvalis) Voles from Different Polluted Biotopes in Slovakia

“…This species has been used to monitor environmental pollution from a variety of technogenic sources (Milton and Johnson 1999; Milton et al 2003; Topolska et al 2004). The common vole ( Microtus arvalis ) is the species that has drawn the attention of cytogeneticists for many years, and currently it is one of the most karyologically studied free-living mammals in Europe (Topashka-Ancheva et al 2003; Moska et al 2004; Gileva et al 2005). These voles feed mainly on leaves, stems, and roots of grasses and other plants and seem to preferentially feed on plants with high nitrogen content (Macdonald and Tattersall 2001).…”

New record of Microtus mystacinus in eastern Kazakhstan: phylogeographical considerations

“…It prefers to live in places with high and dense herbaceous or grassy vegetation, hedgerows, and stands of reeds and it avoids short-grass meadows and dry areas ( Kryštufek and Vohralík 2005 ; Aulagnier et al 2009 ; Kryštufek 2017 ). The distribution range of the Eastern European vole, to date, extends from southern Finland, the Baltic eastwards to western Siberia with patches in the southern Urals, the Novosibirsk suburbs to the southwest margin of Lake Baikal and Buryatia, the southern Caucasus, northern Iran to Turkey, connecting to Greece and the majority of the Balkan Peninsula to Ukraine ( Baskevich 1996 ; Gileva et al 1996 ; Yakimenko and Kryukov 1997 ; Musser and Carleton 2005 ; Shenbrot and Krasnov 2005 ; Pavlova and Tchabovsky 2011 ; Ghorbani et al 2015 ; Baskevich et al 2016 ; Kryštufek 2017 ; Moroldoev et al 2017 ).…”