Rodent Societies: An Ecological & Evolutionary Perspective
comparative approach, and to discuss not only the behav- ior of their subjects but also that of ecologically similar and phyloge ...
and occur in blind mole-rats (Nevo, chap. 25), North Amer- ican ground squirrels (Hare and Murie, chap. 29), desert rodents (Ran ...
tion of data for a particular topic and synthesize two or more disciplines to create new theory with new predictions. A Synthesi ...
alarm calling, multiple mating, and infanticide in three spe- cies of prairie dogs (Hoogland, chap. 37). In many of these chapte ...
T here arefour main components to this chapter. First, we provide a detailed survey of rodent diver- sity at the familial level, ...
mainland source and the number of invasions are still de- bated (Simpson 1952; Dubois et al. 1996; Jansa et al. 1999). South Ame ...
Table 2.2 Two classification schemes of rodents (only extant families are shown) Simpson, 1945 Wilson and Reeder, 1993 Categorie ...
and greatest diversity in the Nearctic (Wilson and Ruff 1999). The mountain beaver, family Aplodontidae, occurs exclusively in t ...
molecular evolution within rodents and among eutherian orders are not homogeneous, and the calibration of a mo- lecular clock ba ...
surrounding South American sigmodontines relates to their diversity and timing of their invasion. For instance, both Hershkovitz ...
urillus) of the New World tropics (fig. 2.3). A sound expla- nation for the phylogenetic positions of these two lineages require ...
of an increased number of mitochondrial genomes of ro- dents found support for rodent monophyly, thus implying the utility of co ...
two factors: the degree to which unrelated groups show parallel changes in morphology, and the relationship be- tween the age of ...
morpha relative to the other two groups is uncertain. Re- cently, several molecular phylogenetic studies have ad- vanced our kno ...
Relationships among subfamilies of Muroidea The family Muridae has a worldwide distribution and rep- resents the most diverse gr ...
Finally, a species level phylogeny was produced for the genus Microtus(Jaarola et al. 2004), a diverse group in the subfamily Ar ...
mals. Specifically, a phylogeny allows one to determine whether a behavior is the result of shared common ancestry or evolved in ...
and 60% of this correlation is phylogenetically constrained; (3) Litter size and increases in social complexity are nega- tively ...
Figure 2.8a Average litter size for ground dwelling sciurids mapped using MacClade 4.05 on a composite phylogeny derived from se ...
nizers, and most biogeographic regions have rodent assem- blages formed by continental exchanges followed by bursts of speciatio ...
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