Rodent Societies: An Ecological & Evolutionary Perspective

Table 4.1 List of studies examining female mate choice in rodents. Studies are categorized by traits and for each study, the fem ...

will only be mating with one male. The implication is that monogamous females have more to lose by mating with pre- viously mate ...

golden hamsters (Mesocricetus auratus,Huck et al. 1986). In contrast, montane voles (Microtus montanus) and meadow voles (Microt ...

maintain high-quality territories (Wolff, R. J., 1985; Rich and Hurst 1998). Dominant males may also be better able to protect f ...

nonself antigens; therefore female mating preferences may be influenced by her MHC haplotype and that of her po- tential mate. M ...

depletion in males and bet hedging against sterility in the first male), gaining material benefits (i.e., more paternal in- vest ...

Table 4.2 Rodent species for which there is evidence that females mate with more than one male Type of Family Species study Evid ...

Table 4.3 Possible instances of cryptic female choice in rodents (adapted from Eberhard 1996) Evidence for criteria Female Femal ...

males sooner after receiving an ejaculation with a subordi- nate male (about 55% of females resumed mating in  10 minutes) as c ...

success. According to the resource defense hypothesis (Ost- feld 1985; 1990), females defend their territories to provide exclus ...

Offspring should benefit by dispersal of parents through increased chances of survival and reproduction (sensu Jones 1986). La ...

or conspecifics (e.g., Sherman 1980a, 1981b; Murie and Michener 1984; Wolff 1993b), and alarm calling (e.g., Sher- man 1977, 198 ...

crimination among males leads to differences in reproduc- tive success for these males, (3) that female preferences are associat ...

T he thesis ofthis chapter is that sexual selection (usually male-male competition and female choice) operating in captive house ...

these immunologically critical loci. Second, we describe an inbreeding study that shows that the magnitude of inbreed- ing depre ...

and use wood shavings and cotton batting to make them- selves comfortable in an assortment of nest boxes. Within these simulated ...

the phenomenon for which MHC had first been discovered (See Klein 1986 for an MHC historical account). However, only in the 1980 ...

veys of wild populations, suggesting that mating prefer- ences could indeed be the elusive source of selection main- taining MHC ...

giant jumping rat (Hypogeomys antimena) is strictly mo- nogamous, has low MHC polymorphisms, low reproduc- tive rates, and restr ...

measure these potentially important inbreeding costs in mice, studies in Drosophila(Charlesworth and Charles- worth 1987) were b ...