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Eighteen chapters prepared by 28 contributors provide a complete overview of the biology of this important family of rodents. Included are reviews and new information on the fossil record, systematics and taxonomy, morphology and morphometrics, cytogenetics and biochemical genetics, ear anatomy, phylogenetics and adaptation, biogeography, evolutionary morphology, parasites, ontogeny, colon anatomy and physiology, physiological ecology, foraging ecology, ecology of tropical species, population and community ecology, and development of rodent communities in the world's deserts. Literature cited. |
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Table of Contents
- The Fossil Record......John H. Wahlert
- Taxonomy and Systematics......Daniel F. Williams, Hugh H. Genoways, and Janet K.
- Braun
- Patterns of Morphologic and Morphometric Variation in Heteromyid
- Rodents......Troy L. Best
- Cytogenetics......James L. Patton and Duke S. Rogers
- Biochemical Genetics......James L. Patton and Duke S. Rogers
- Anatomy of the Heteromyid Ear......Douglas M. Lay
- Macroevolutionary Diversification in Heteromyid Rodents: Heterochrony and
- Adaptation in Phylogeny......John C. Hafner
- Biogeography......David J. Schmidly, Kenneth T. Wilkins, and James N. Derr
- The Evolutionary Morphology of Heteromyids......P. Brylski
- Parasites......John O. Whittaker, William J. Wrenn, and Robert E. Lewis
- Ontogeny......John F. Eisenberg
- The Proximal Colon of Heteromyid Rodents: Possible Morphophysiological
- Correlates to Enhanced Water Conservation......G. Lawrence Forman and Carleton J.
- Phillips
- Physiological Ecology of the Heteromyidae: Economics of Energy and Water
- Utilization......Alan R. French
- Ecological Aspects of Heteromyid Foraging......O. J. Reichman and M. V. Price
- Social Systems of Heteromyid Rodents......Thomas Jones
- Ecology of Tropical Heteromyids......Victor Sanchez-Cordero and Theodore H.
- Fleming
- Population and Community Ecology of Heteromyid Rodents in Temperate
- Habitats......James H. Brown and Barbara A. Harney
- Heteromyids and Their Ecological Counterparts: A Pandesertic View of
- Rodent Ecology and Evolution......Michael S. Gaines
- Index
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