Violaine Nicolas

Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique — France

Environmental Science · Physical Sciences

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Research Topics

Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies(87), Evolution and Paleontology Studies(83), Genetic diversity and population structure(60), Bat Biology and Ecology Studies(49), Wildlife Ecology and Conservation(33)

Publications220 total

An exceptional network of diploic veins in pangolins: implications for brain drainage and placental mammal phylogeny
SPIRE - Sciences Po Institutional REpository·2025
Aquitanian Mole Talpa aquitania Nicolas, Martínez-Vargas, & Hugot, 2017
Handbook of the mammals of Europe·2025
Integrative taxonomic revision of the African thicket rats (Murinae: <i>Grammomys</i>): how genomics decreases the number of currently recognized species
Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society·2024· 2 citedOpen Access
The Epidemiological Investigation of <i>Yersinia pestis</i> , <i>Francisella tularensis</i> , and Arenavirus Infections in Small Mammals in Northwestern Iran
Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases·2024· 3 cited
L’inventaire de la biodiversité aujourd’hui
2024
How to cross the desert if you are small and need mountains? Out‐of‐Ethiopia dispersal in Afromontane shrews
Journal of Biogeography·2023· 10 cited
Potential impact of climate change on spatial distribution of two savannah amphibian species in West Africa
African Journal of Ecology·2023· 6 citedOpen Access
The first identification of <i>Tula orthohantavirus</i> in forest dormice (Rodentia: Gliridae) from Iran
Mammalia·2023· 1 cited
Species distribution modelling of Hylarana Species (Anura, Ranidae) and the problem of accurate species identification
Zootaxa·2023Open Access
Cryptic diversity of Crocidura shrews in the savannahs of Eastern and Southern Africa
Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution·2023· 3 citedOpen Access
Geographical distribution and diversification of small mammals in sub-Saharan Africa: integration of fossil and modern data: Distribution géographique et diversification des petits mammifères en Afrique sub-saharienne : intégration des données fossiles et modernes
HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe)·2022
Comparative morpho‐functional analysis of the humerus and ulna in three Western European moles species of the genus <i>Talpa</i>, including the newly described <i>T. aquitania</i>
Journal of Anatomy·2022· 9 citedOpen Access
Incongruences between morphology and molecular phylogeny provide an insight into the diversification of the Crocidura poensis species complex
Scientific Reports·2022· 9 citedOpen Access
Defining Fragmentation Patterns of Archaeological Bone Remains without Typologies: A Landmark-Based Approach on Rodent Mandibula
Quaternary·2022· 2 citedOpen Access
Shrews (Mammalia, Eulipotyphla) from a biodiversity hotspot, Mount Nimba (West Africa), with a field identification key to species
Zoosystema·2021· 4 citedOpen Access
Phylogeography
2021
Two rodents, two ways, Oryzomyini and Dasyproctidae roles and uses in the Ceramic Age Precolombian Lesser Antilles: Diversification of extinct and endemic Lesser Antillean rice rats (Oryzomyini tribe). Combined geometric morphometrics analysis of archaeological teeth and mandibles
HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe)·2021
Dental polymorphisms in<i>Crocidura</i>(Soricomorpha: Soricidae) and evolutionary diversification of crocidurine shrew dentition
Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society·2021· 7 citedOpen Access
Phenotypic diversification of extinct and endemic Lesser Antillean rice rats (Oryzomyini tribe): combined geometric morphometrics analysis of archaeological teeth and mandibles
HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe)·2021
New data on the distribution of the two mole species Talpa aquitania Nicolas, Matinez-Vargas &amp; Hugot, 2017 and T. europaea Linnaeus, 1758 in France based on museum and newly collected specimens
Zoosystema·2021· 4 citedOpen Access
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Frequent Co-authors

Marc Colyn(22), Christiane Denys(21), Erik Verheyen(15), Alain Didier Missoup(11), Josef Bryja(9), Corinne Cruaud(7), Pionus Katuala(7), Wim Wendelen(7), Aude Lalis(6), Radim Šumbera(6), Jan Kennis(5), Arnaud Couloux(5), Ayodeji Olayemi(5), Akaïbe Dudu(5), Bertin Akpatou(5), Patrick Barrière(5), Julian Kerbis Peterhans(4), François Jacquet(4), Julian C. Kerbis Peterhans(4), Herwig Leirs(4)