In 2018–2020, we performed a country-wide study of small mammals in commercial orchards and berry plantations with the aim determining whether common vole (Microtus arvalis) is more suitable focal species than field (M. agrestis) risk assessment plant protection products Lithuania (country Northern Zone). Common was present 75% 80% control habitats, accounting for 30% all trapped individuals. T...

Simultaneous determinations of DNA content in cell nuclei and condensed chromatin bodies formed by heterochromatized regions of sex chromosomes (gonosomal chromatin bodies, GCB) have been performed in two trophoblast cell populations of the East-European field vole Microtus rossiaemeridionalis: in the proliferative population of trophoblast cells of the junctional zone of placenta and in the se...