Document Type
Contribution to Book
Publication Date
2007
Abstract
This chapter focuses on the breeding systems of Neotomine-Peromyscine rodents. There are three specific objectives to this chapter. First, we describe the patterns for major Neotomine-Peromyscine clades using data collected from the literature (table 6.1). Second, we examine data from the literature on the following breeding behaviors: male spacing, female spacing, relative intersexual home range/territory size, paternal care, and juvenile dispersal patterns. We examine breeding behavior data in a phylogenetic framework to test if any phylogenetic patterns emerge in the observed variation in these breeding behaviors and if relationships occur among these behaviors. Third, we examine in a phylogenetic framework whether dietary, physiological, or life-history characteristics of the taxa are able to explain the observed variation in these breeding behaviors.
Editor
Jerry O. Wolff & Paul W. Sherman
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
City
Chicago
ISBN
9780226905365, 9780226905372
Repository Citation
Kalcounis-Rueppell, M. C., & Ribble, D. O. (2007). Phylogenetic analysis of the socioecology of Neotomine-Peromyscine rodents. In Rodent Societies: An Ecological and Evolutionary Perspective (1st ed., pp. 68-85). University of Chicago Press.
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Rodent Societies: An Ecological and Evolutionary Perspective
