identifier	taxonID	type	CVterm	format	language	title	description	additionalInformationURL	UsageTerms	rights	Owner	contributor	creator	bibliographicCitation
03FA502DFFC159027021F1EF39C8FDE4.text	03FA502DFFC159027021F1EF39C8FDE4.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Fukomys darlingi (Thomas 1895)	<div><p>Karyotype of F. darlingi from Nsanje</p> <p>The karyotype of F. darlingi from the Nsanje population was established from a blood sample taken from one male kept at the University of Duisburg-Essen (F2 offspring of wild-caught mole-rats). Lymphocytes in whole blood cultures were stimulated to enter the cell cycle using phytohemagglutinin L (PAN Biotech, 3 μg/mL) for 2 days at 37 ° C. Mitotic cells were arrested using colcemid (Ciba, 80 ng / mL). Preparation and Giemsa staining followed standard protocols. Chromosomes in C-metaphases were examined. Altogether, 12 mitotic cells were analysed.</p> </div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FA502DFFC159027021F1EF39C8FDE4	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Šumbera, R.;Uhrová, M.;Begall, S.;Caspar, K. R.;Jerkovičová, D.;Daele, P. Van;Chitaukali, W. N.;Faulkes, C. G.;Bennett, N. C.;Johannes, C.;Burda, H.;Mikula, O.	Šumbera, R., Uhrová, M., Begall, S., Caspar, K. R., Jerkovičová, D., Daele, P. Van, Chitaukali, W. N., Faulkes, C. G., Bennett, N. C., Johannes, C., Burda, H., Mikula, O. (2023): The biology of an isolated Mashona mole-rat population from southern Malawi, with implications for the diversity and biogeography of the genus Fukomys. Organisms Diversity & Evolution (New York, N. Y.) 23 (3): 603-620, DOI: 10.1007/s13127-023-00604-z, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13127-023-00604-z
03FA502DFFC059037399F3A03C66FC3C.text	03FA502DFFC059037399F3A03C66FC3C.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Fukomys darlingi (Thomas 1895)	<div><p>Wild-caught F. darlingi from Nsanje</p> <p>Wild-caught mole-rats were of dark grey colour and displayed relatively large white head spots of different sizes and shapes (see Fig. 2). Males were larger than females (Table 1) and one of the females was pregnant with three foetuses. Other information on morphology and reproductive condition of free-living individuals can be found in Supplementary Information 1.</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FA502DFFC059037399F3A03C66FC3C	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Šumbera, R.;Uhrová, M.;Begall, S.;Caspar, K. R.;Jerkovičová, D.;Daele, P. Van;Chitaukali, W. N.;Faulkes, C. G.;Bennett, N. C.;Johannes, C.;Burda, H.;Mikula, O.	Šumbera, R., Uhrová, M., Begall, S., Caspar, K. R., Jerkovičová, D., Daele, P. Van, Chitaukali, W. N., Faulkes, C. G., Bennett, N. C., Johannes, C., Burda, H., Mikula, O. (2023): The biology of an isolated Mashona mole-rat population from southern Malawi, with implications for the diversity and biogeography of the genus Fukomys. Organisms Diversity & Evolution (New York, N. Y.) 23 (3): 603-620, DOI: 10.1007/s13127-023-00604-z, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13127-023-00604-z
03FA502DFFC059037021F1EF38AFFE5B.text	03FA502DFFC059037021F1EF38AFFE5B.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Fukomys darlingi (Thomas 1895)	<div><p>Karyotype of F. darlingi from Nsanje</p> <p>The diploid chromosome number of F. darlingi from Nsanje was 2n = 54 with 23 metacentric chromosomes (including the single X chromosome in males) and 31 acro/ telocentric chromosomes (including the single Y chromosome in males). The fundamental number was 78 with the autosomal fundamental number (aFN) being 76 (Fig. 3).</p> </div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FA502DFFC059037021F1EF38AFFE5B	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Šumbera, R.;Uhrová, M.;Begall, S.;Caspar, K. R.;Jerkovičová, D.;Daele, P. Van;Chitaukali, W. N.;Faulkes, C. G.;Bennett, N. C.;Johannes, C.;Burda, H.;Mikula, O.	Šumbera, R., Uhrová, M., Begall, S., Caspar, K. R., Jerkovičová, D., Daele, P. Van, Chitaukali, W. N., Faulkes, C. G., Bennett, N. C., Johannes, C., Burda, H., Mikula, O. (2023): The biology of an isolated Mashona mole-rat population from southern Malawi, with implications for the diversity and biogeography of the genus Fukomys. Organisms Diversity & Evolution (New York, N. Y.) 23 (3): 603-620, DOI: 10.1007/s13127-023-00604-z, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13127-023-00604-z
03FA502DFFCE590D7399F200397FFF32.text	03FA502DFFCE590D7399F200397FFF32.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Cryptomys hottentotus (Ansell & Dowsett 1988)	<div><p>How many Fukomys species inhabit Malawi?</p> <p>Although it was originally suggested that common mole-rats in Malawi belong to a single species, which was referred to as Cryptomys hottentotus (Ansell &amp; Dowsett, 1988), it becomes clear that the country is home to at least four well-defined lineages of Fukomys, most likely distinct species (Figs. 1, 4, and 5). The northern parts of Malawi are occupied by F. whytei, whereas in the southernmost regions of Malawi, F. darlingi is present. Two other lineages provisionally named “Ndawambe” and “Viphya” occur in the central part of the country. Whereas mole-rats from Viphya seem to be related to F. whytei in both the CYTB and nuclear dataset, the position of those from Ndawambe is not clear (Figs. 4 and 5). Mole-rats from Mzuzu in northern Malawi (see Faulkes et al., 2010) seem to be almost identical to the animals from Viphya according to our unpublished CYTB data. For sure, these relatively isolated lineages deserve further study. Ansell and Dowsett (1988) proposed that F. mechowii (Peters, 1881), the giant mole-rat, which is abundant in northern Zambia, also occurs in northern Malawi. However, the single specimen that this assumption was based on exhibited a head spot, which is typically absent in this species (Caspar et al., 2021b). No further records of F. mechowii from Malawi have been noted since then, and it appears that the species’ eastern range is limited by the Zambian Muchinga Escarpment and the Luangwa River system (see Caspar et al., 2021b). Thus, its range should not extend into Malawi. In case F. mechowii is indeed absent from Malawi and the mole-rat populations from Ndawambe and Viphya are recognised as species in future analyses, the bathyergid fauna of the country will consist of five species: four social Fukomys and the solitary silvery mole-rat Heliophobius argenteocinereus.</p> </div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FA502DFFCE590D7399F200397FFF32	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Šumbera, R.;Uhrová, M.;Begall, S.;Caspar, K. R.;Jerkovičová, D.;Daele, P. Van;Chitaukali, W. N.;Faulkes, C. G.;Bennett, N. C.;Johannes, C.;Burda, H.;Mikula, O.	Šumbera, R., Uhrová, M., Begall, S., Caspar, K. R., Jerkovičová, D., Daele, P. Van, Chitaukali, W. N., Faulkes, C. G., Bennett, N. C., Johannes, C., Burda, H., Mikula, O. (2023): The biology of an isolated Mashona mole-rat population from southern Malawi, with implications for the diversity and biogeography of the genus Fukomys. Organisms Diversity & Evolution (New York, N. Y.) 23 (3): 603-620, DOI: 10.1007/s13127-023-00604-z, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13127-023-00604-z
