Andrei Kandaurov

TL;DR: A molecular phylogeny for Microtus is established to resolve contentious issues of systematic relationships and evolutionary history in this genus, suggesting a rapid and potentially simultaneous radiation of a widespread ancestor early in the history of the genus.

TL;DR: The results suggest that bats in Georgia are exposed to multiple bacterial infections and further studies are needed to evaluate pathogenicity of these agents to bats and their zoonotic potential.

TL;DR: Bartonella infections were investigated in seven species of bats from four regions of the Republic of Georgia and some Bartonella genotypes found in bats clustered with those identified in dogs from Thailand and humans from Poland.

TL;DR: The analy¬sis of amphibian distribution patterns, both within and outside the Caucasus region, leads to the recognition of five Zoogeographie groups that in term can be arranged into the larger units of (1) amphibian of the Near East and (2) amphibians of the Caucasian Zoogeographsie district.

TL;DR: This article found an isolated but dense population of this species at and around the castle of Anaklia on Georgia's Black Sea Coast, near the mouth of the river Enguri, and the analysis of mitochondrial cytochrome b sequence suggests closeness of this population to the populations in the provinces of Kahramanmaras, Adana and Icel in southern Turkey, rather than to those in Lebanon and Israel.