———. 2001. Urine marking and social dominance in male
house mice (Mus musculus domesticus). Behavioural Pro-
cesses53 : 113 –20.
Drickamer, L. C., and S. Assmann. 1981. Acceleration and de-
lay of puberty in female house mice: Methods of delivery
of the urinary stimulus. Developmental Psychobiology15 :
433 – 42.
Drickamer, L. C., and L. L. Gillie. 1998. Integrating proximate
and ultimate causation in the study of vertebrate behavior:
Methods considerations. American Zoologist38 : 43 –58.
Drickamer, L. C., P. A. Gowaty, and C. M. Holmes. 2000. Free
female mate choice in house mice affects reproductive success
and offspring viability and performance. Animal Behaviour
59 : 371–78.
Drickamer, L. C., P. A. Gowaty, and D. M. Wagner. 2003. Free
mutual mate preferences in house mice affect reproductive
success and offspring performance. Animal Behaviour65 :
106 –14.
Drickamer, L. C., and D. G. Mikesic. 1990. Urinary chemosig-
nals, reproduction, puberty, and population size in wild house
mice in enclosures.Journal of Chemical Ecology16 : 2955 – 68.
Drickamer, L. C., and R. X. Murphy. 1978. Female mouse matu-
ration: Effects of excreted and bladder urine from juvenile
and adult males. Developmental Psychobiology11 : 63 –72.
Drickamer, L. C., A. S. Robinson, and C. A. Mossman. 2001.
Differential responses to same and opposite sex odors by
adult house mice are associated with anogenital distance.
Ethology107 : 509 –19.
Driessen, M. M., and R. K. Rose. 1999. Pseudomys higginsi.
Mammalian Species623 : 1–5.
Dubois, J.-Y., D. Rakotondravony, C. Hänni, P. Sourrouille, and
F. F. Catzeflis. 1996. Molecular evolutionary relationships of
three genera of Nesomyinae, endemic rodent taxa from Mad-
agascar. Journal of Mammalian Evolution3 : 239 – 60.
Dubrovsky, Yu. A. 1978. Jirds and natural nidi of the cutaneous
leishmaniasis.[In Russian.] Moscow: Nauka.
Dudley, D. 1974. Contributions of paternal care to the growth
and development of the young in Peromyscus californicus.
Behavioral Biology11 : 155 – 66.
Dugatkin, A. A. 2003. Principles of animal behavior.New York:
W. W. Norton.
Dukel’skaya, N. M. 1935. The mole rat Spalaxand mole rat
trapping. In The thin toed ground squirrel, the fat door-
mouse, the mole rat and the chipmunk,ed. S. P. Naumov,
N. P. Lavarov, E. P. Spangenberg, N. M. Dukel’skaya, I. M.
Zaleskii, and M. D. Zverev, 71–79. Moscow: All-Union
Coop. Union Publications House. (In Russian. English trans-
lation 142 F 395 D Bureau of Animal Populations, Oxford
University).
Dunaway, P. B. 1968. Life history and populational aspects of
the eastern harvest mouse. American Midland Naturalist79 :
48 – 67.
Dunbar, R. I. M. 1982. Intraspecific variations in mating strat-
egy. Perspectives in Ethology5 : 385 – 431.
———. 1984. The ecology of monogamy. New Scientist1419 :
12 –15.
———. 1989. Social systems as optimal strategy sets: The costs
and benefits of sociality. In Comparative socioecology: The
behavioral ecology of humans and other mammals,ed.
V. Standen and R. A. Foley, 131– 49. Oxford: Blackwell
Scientific.
Dunford, C. 1977a. Kin selection for ground squirrel alarm calls.
American Naturalist111 : 782 – 85.
———. 1977b. Social system of round-tailed ground squirrels.
Animal Behaviour25 : 885 – 906.
Dunn, A. J. 1988. Stress-related changes in cerebral catecholamine
and indoleamine metabolism: Lack of effect of adrenalec-
tomy and corticosterone.Journal of Neurochemistry51 :
406 –12.
Dunn, L. C., A. B. Beasley, and H. Tinker. 1958. Relative fitness
of wild house mice heterozygous for a lethal allele. American
Naturalist 92 :215 –20.
Dunn, L. C., and H. Levene. 1961. Population dynamics of a
variant tallele in a confined population of wild house mice.
Evolution15 : 385 – 93.
Dunn, L. C., and J. A. Suckling. 1955. A preliminary comparison
of the fertilities of wild house mice with and without a mutant
at locus T. American Naturalist89 : 231–33.
Duquette, L. S., and J. S. Millar. 1995a. The effect of supplemen-
tal food on life-history traits and demography of a tropical
mouse Peromyscus mexicanus. Journal of Animal Ecology64 :
348 – 60.
———. 1995b. Reproductive response of a tropical mouse, Pero-
myscus mexicanus,to changes in food availability. Journal of
Mammalogy76 : 596 – 602.
Duquette, L. S., and J. S. Millar. 1998. Litter sex ratios in a food-
supplemented population of Peromyscus mexicanus. Cana-
dian Journal of Zoology76 : 623 –29.
Durand, D., K. Ardlie, L. Buttel, S. A. Levin, and L. M. Silver.- Impact of migration and fitness on the stability of lethal
t-haplotype polymorphism in Mus musculus: A computer
study. Genetics145 : 1093 –1108.
Durant, P., J. W. Dole, and G. F. Fisler. 1988. Agonistic behav-
ior of the California ground squirrel, Spermophilus beecheyi,
at an artificial food source. Great Basin Naturalist48 : 19 –
Du Toit, J. T., J. U. M. Jarvis, and G. N. Louw. 1985. Nutrition
and burrowing energetics of the Cape mole – rat, Georychus
capensis. Oecologia66 : 81– 87.
Duvall, D., and D. Chiszar. 1990. Behavior and chemical ecology
of vernal migration and pre- and post-strike predatory activity
in prairie rattlesnakes. In Chemical Signals in Vertebrates 5,
ed. D. W. MacDonald, D. Mueller-Scwarze, and S. E.
Natynczuk, 539 –54. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Ebensperger, L. A. 1998a. Do female rodents use promiscuity to
prevent male infanticide? Ethology Ecology & Evolution10 :
129 – 41.
———. 1998b. The potential effects of protected nests and cage
complexity on maternal aggression in house mice. Aggressive
Behavior24 : 385 – 96.
———. 1998c. Sociality in rodents: The New World fossorial
hystricognaths as a study model. Revista Chilena Historia
Natural71 : 65 –77.
———. 1998d. Strategies and counterstrategies to infanticide in
mammals. Biological Reviews73 : 321– 46.
———. 2001a. A review on the evolutionary causes of rodent
group living. Acta Theriologica46 : 115 – 44.
———. 2001b. No infanticide in the hystricognath rodent,
Octodon degus: Does ecology play a role? Acta Ethologica
3 : 89 – 93.
Ebensperger, L. A., C. Botto-Mahan, and R. H. Tamarin. 2000.
Nonparental infanticide in meadow voles, Microtus pennsyl-
References 517