Major category: Biological Sciences Minor category: Medical Sciences Title: Molecular phylogeny of a newfound hantavirus in the Japanese shrew mole (Urotrichus talpoides) Running title: Hantavirus in the Japanese Shrew Mole Authors:

Molecular phylogeny of a newfound hantavirus in the Japanese shrew mole (Urotrichus talpoides).

Recent molecular evidence of genetically distinct hantaviruses in shrews, captured in widely separated geographical regions, corroborates decades-old reports of hantavirus antigens in shrew tissues. Apart from challenging the conventional view that rodents are the principal reservoir hosts, the recently identified soricid-borne hantaviruses raise the possibility that other soricomorphs, notably...

Some nematodes of the Japanese shrew mole, Urotrichus talpoides Temminck.

Parasites of the Japanese shrew mole, Urotrichus talpoides temminck.

Evolutionary Insights from a Genetically Divergent Hantavirus Harbored by the European Common Mole (Talpa europaea)

BACKGROUND The discovery of genetically distinct hantaviruses in shrews (Order Soricomorpha, Family Soricidae) from widely separated geographic regions challenges the hypothesis that rodents (Order Rodentia, Family Muridae and Cricetidae) are the primordial reservoir hosts of hantaviruses and also predicts that other soricomorphs harbor hantaviruses. Recently, novel hantavirus genomes have been...

Further observations on parasites of the Japanese shrew mole, Urotrichus talpoides temminck.

A new lungworm, Angiostrongylus minutus n. sp. (Nematoda: Metastrongylidae), was described from 13 out of 14 specimens of the Japanese shrew mole, Urotrichus talpoides TEMMINCK, which were collected at Yumoto, Nikko and areas near Lakes Saiko and Kawaguchi at the foot of Mt. Fuji. The male of this nematode is characterized by its minute body size, the existence of the gubernaculum, two simple b...