Rodent Societies: An Ecological & Evolutionary Perspective

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Rodent Societies ...

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Rodent Societies: An Ecological & Evolutionary Perspective Edited by Jerry O. Wolff and Paul W. Sherman The University of Ch ...

paul w. shermanis professor of animal behavior and a Weiss Presiden- tial Fellow at Cornell University. jerry o. wolffwas profes ...

Contributors ix Acknowledgments xiii Introduction 1 Rodent Societies as Model Systems Jerry O. Wolff and Paul W. Sherman 3 2 Rod ...

19 Kin Recognition in Rodents: Issues and Evidence Warren G. Holmes and Jill M. Mateo 216 Social Behavior 20 Parental Care Betty ...

41 Social Behavior, Demography, and Rodent-Borne Pathogens Richard S. Ostfeld and James N. Mills 478 Conclusions 42 Conclusions ...

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Brandon J. Aragona Department of Psychology Florida State University Tallahassee, FL 32306 [email protected] Kenneth B. Armita ...

F. Stephen Dobson Department of Biological Sciences Auburn University Auburn, AL 36849 [email protected] Lee C. Drickame ...

Eileen Lacey Museum of Vertebrate Zoology University of California Berkeley, CA 94720 [email protected] Xavier Lambi ...

Wayne K. Potts Molecular Biology Program University of Utah Salt Lake City, UT 84112 [email protected] Jan Randall Departme ...

2 Rodney L. Honeycutt, Laurence J. Frabotta, and Diane L. Rowe: Research reported on hystricognath rodents was funded by Nationa ...

Mike Smeltzer for critical reading of this manuscript. This work was partially supported by NIH grants HD48462 and HD40722 (JTC) ...

33 David W. Macdonald, Emilio A. Herrera, Andrew B. Taber, and José Roberto Moreira: We are grateful to Ruth Feber for considera ...

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Introduction ...

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T he Rodentiais the largest order of mammals, consisting of more than 2,000 species and compris- ing 44% of all mammals. Rodents ...