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Trang 4Rodent Societies:
An Ecological
& Evolutionary
Perspective
Edited by Jerry O Wolff and Paul W Sherman
The University of Chicago Press Chicago and London
Trang 5pa u l w s h e r m a n is professor of animal behavior and a Weiss Presiden-tial Fellow at Cornell University.
j e r ry o wo l ff was professor and chair of the biology department at the University of Memphis; he is now professor of biology at St Cloud State University.
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Rodent societies : an ecological & evolutionary perspective / edited by Jerry O Wolff and Paul W Sherman.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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1 Rodents —Ecology 2 Rodents —Evolution 3 Social behavior
in animals 4 Animal societies I Wolff, Jerry II Sherman, Paul W., 1949 –
ql737.r6r623 2007
599.35156 —dc22
2006021884 The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Information Sciences —Permanence
of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ansi z39.48-1992.
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Trang 6Contributors ix Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction
1 Rodent Societies as Model Systems Jerry O Wolff and Paul W Sherman 3
2 Rodent Evolution, Phylogenetics, and Biogeography
Rodney L Honeycutt, Laurence J Frabotta, and Diane L Rowe 8
Sexual Behavior
3 Male Mating Strategies in Rodents Jane Waterman 27
4 Reproductive Strategies in Female Rodents
Nancy G Solomon and Brian Keane 42
5 Sexual Selection: Using Social Ecology to Determine Fitness Differences
Lara S Carroll and Wayne K Potts 57
6 A Phylogenetic Analysis of the Breeding Systems of Neotomine-Peromyscine Rodents
Matina C Kalcounis-Rüppell and David O Ribble 68
7 Alternative Reproductive Tactics and Strategies of Tree Squirrels
John L Koprowski 86
Life Histories and Behavior
8 Fast and Slow Life Histories of Rodents F Stephen Dobson and Madan K Oli 99
9 Acceleration and Delay of Reproduction in Rodents Lee C Drickamer 106
10 Sexual Size Dimorphism in Rodents Albrecht I Schulte-Hostedde 115
11 Facultative Sex Ratio Adjustment Robert S Sikes 129
12 The Role of the Stress Axis in Life-History Adaptations
Rudy Boonstra, J M Barker, J Castillo, and Q E Fletcher 139
13 Dispersal and Philopatry Scott Nunes 150
14 Gene Dynamics and Social Behavior F Stephen Dobson 163
15 Social Behavior and Self-Regulation in Murid Rodents
Charles J Krebs, Xavier Lambin and Jerry O Wolff 173
Behavioral Development
16 Neural Regulation of Social Behavior in Rodents
J Thomas Curtis, Yan Liu, Brandon J Aragona, and Zuoxin Wang 185
17 Ontogeny of Adaptive Behaviors Jill M Mateo 195
18 Social Learning by Rodents Bennett G Galef Jr 207
Contents
Trang 719 Kin Recognition in Rodents: Issues and Evidence
Warren G Holmes and Jill M Mateo 216
Social Behavior
20 Parental Care Betty McGuire and William E Bemis 231
21 The Ecology of Sociality in Rodents Eileen A Lacey and Paul W Sherman 243
22 Scent Marking S Craig Roberts 255
23 Nonparental Infanticide Luis A Ebensperger and Daniel T Blumstein 267
24 Social Organization and Monogamy in the Beaver Peter Busher 280
25 Evolution of Pacifism and Sociality in Blind Mole-Rats Eviatar Nevo 291
Antipredator Behavior
26 Social and Antipredator Systems: Intertwining Links in Multiple Time Frames
Donald H Owings and Richard G Coss 305
27 The Evolution of Alarm Communication in Rodents: Structure, Function, and the Puzzle of Apparently Altruistic Calling Daniel T Blumstein 317
28 Fear and the Foraging, Breeding, and Sociality of Rodents
Hannu Ylönen and Joel S Brown 328
Comparative Socioecology
29 Ecology, Kinship, and Ground Squirrel Sociality: Insights from Comparative Analyses
James F Hare and Jan O Murie 345
30 Evolution of Sociality in Marmots: It Begins with Hibernation
Kenneth B Armitage 356
31 Environmental Constraints and the Evolution of Sociality in Semifossorial Desert Rodents Jan A Randall 368
32 Comparative Social Organization and Life History of Rattus and Mus Manuel Berdoy and Lee C Drickamer 380
33 Social Organization and Resource Use in Capybaras and Maras
David W Macdonald, Emilio A Herrera, Andrew B Taber, and José Roberto Moreira 393
34 Social Structure in Octodontid and Ctenomyid Rodents
Eileen A Lacey and Luis A Ebensperger 403
35 Socioecology of Rock-Dwelling Rodents Karen J Nutt 416
36 African Mole-Rats: Social and Ecological Diversity
Chris G Faulkes and Nigel C Bennett 427
37 Alarm Calling, Multiple Mating, and Infanticide among Black-Tailed, Gunnison’s, and Utah Prairie Dogs John L Hoogland 438
Conservation and Disease
38 Issues in Rodent Conservation William Z Lidicker Jr 453
39 Conservation of Ground Squirrels Beatrice Van Horne 463
40 Conservation of Prairie Dogs John L Hoogland 472
vi Contents
Trang 841 Social Behavior, Demography, and Rodent-Borne Pathogens
Richard S Ostfeld and James N Mills 478
Conclusions
42 Conclusions and Future Directions Paul W Sherman and Jerry O Wolff 489
References 491 Subject Index 599 Species Index 605
Contents vii
Trang 10Brandon J Aragona
Department of Psychology
Florida State University
Tallahassee, FL 32306
aragona@psy.fsu.edu
Kenneth B Armitage
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
University of Kansas
Lawrence, KS 66045
marmots@lark.cc.ukans.edu
J M Barker
Centre for the Neurobiology of Stress
Department of Life Sciences
University of Toronto at Scarborough
Scarborough, Ontario, Canada, M1C 1A4
William E Bemis
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Corson Hall
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853
web24@cornell.edu
Nigel C Bennett
Department of Zoology and Entomology
University of Pretoria
Pretoria, South Africa
ncbennett@zoology.up.ac.za
Manuel Berdoy
Oxford University Veterinary Services
Parks Rd, OX1 3PT
Oxford, UK
manuel.berdoy@vet.ox.ac.uk
Daniel T Blumstein
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
University of California
621 Charles E Young Drive South
University of California
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1606
marmots@ucla.edu
Rudy Boonstra Centre for the Neurobiology of Stress Department of Life Sciences
University of Toronto at Scarborough Scarborough, Ontario, Canada, M1C 1A4 boonstra@utsc.utoronto.ca
Joel Brown Department of Biological Sciences University of Illinois at Chicago Chicago, IL 60607
squirrel@uic.edu
Peter E Busher Center for Ecology and Conservation Biology Boston University
Boston, MA 02215 USA pbusher@bu.edu
Lara S Carroll Howard Hughes Medical Institute University of Utah
Salt Lake City, UT 84112-5331 lara.carroll@utah.edu
J Castillo Centre for the Neurobiology of Stress Department of Life Sciences
University of Toronto at Scarborough Scarborough, Ontario, Canada, M1C 1A4
Richard C Coss Department of Psychology University of California One Shields Avenue Davis, CA 95616-8686 rgcoss@ucdavis.edu
J Thomas Curtis, PhD Department of Psychology Florida State University Tallahassee, FL 32306 tcurtis@psy.fsu.edu
Contributors
Trang 11F Stephen Dobson
Department of Biological Sciences
Auburn University
Auburn, AL 36849
fdobson@acesag.auburn.edu
Lee C Drickamer
Department of Biological Sciences
Northern Arizona University
Flagstaff, AZ 86001
Lee.Drickamer@NAU.EDU
Luis A Ebensperger
Departamento de Ecología
P Universidad Católica de Chile
Centro de Estudios Avanzados
en Ecología & Biodiversidad
Casilla 114-D, Santiago, Chile
lebenspe@genes.bio.puc.cl
Christopher G Faulkes
Queen Mary & Westfield College
School of Biological Sciences
London E1 4NS UK
C.G.Faulkes@qmul.ac.uk
Quinn E Fletcher
Centre for the Neurobiology of Stress
Department of Life Sciences
University of Toronto at Scarborough
Scarborough, Ontario, Canada, M1C 1A4
Laurence J Frabotta
Department of Biology
Texas A&M University
College Station, Texas 77843-3258
Bennett G Galef
Department of Psychology
McMaster University
Hamilton, Ontario L8S 4K1
Canada
galef@mcmail.mcmaster.ca
James F Hare
Department of Zoology
University of Manitoba
Manitoba, Canada R3T 2N2
harejf@cc.umanitoba.ca
Emilio A Herrera Departamento de Estudios Ambientales Universidad Simón Bolívar
Caracas 1080-A, Venezuela eherre@usb.ve
Warren Holmes Department of Psychology and Center for Ecology and Evolutionary Biology University of Oregon
Eugene, OR 97403-5289 wholmes@darkwing.uoregon.edu
Rodney L Honeycutt Texas A&M University Department of Wildlife & Fisheries Sciences College Station, Texas 77843-2258
rhoneycutt@neo.tamu.edu
John L Hoogland The University of Maryland Appalachian Laboratory Frostburg, MD 21532 hoogland@al.umces.edu
Matina Kalcounis-Rüppell Department of Biology The University of North Carolina at Greensboro Greensboro, North Carolina 27402-6170 matina_kalcounis@uncg.edu
Brian Keane Department of Zoology Miami University Hamilton, OH 45011 keaneb@muohio.edu
John L Koprowski Wildlife and Fisheries Science School of Renewable Natural Resources University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ 85721 squirrel@ag.arizona.edu
Dr Charles J Krebs CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems Canberra, A.C.T 2601 Australia
Charles.Krebs@csiro.au
x Contributors
Trang 12Eileen Lacey
Museum of Vertebrate Zoology
University of California
Berkeley, CA 94720
ealacey@socrates.berkeley.edu
Xavier Lambin
School of Biological Sciences
Department of Biology
University of Aberdeen
Aberdeen, Scotland
x.lambin@abdn.ac.uk
William Z Lidicker, Jr
Museum of Vertebrate Zoology
University of California
Berkeley, CA 94720
lidicker@socrates.Berkeley.edu
Yan Liu
Department of Psychology
Florida State University
Tallahassee, FL 32306
David W Macdonald
Wildlife Conservation Research Unit
Department of Zoology
University of Oxford
Tubney, Oxon OX13 5QL, UK
david.macdonald@zoology.ox.ac.uk
Jill M Mateo
Department of Comparative Human Development
Committee on Human Development
Institute for Mind and Biology
University of Chicago
Chicago, IL 60637
jmateo@uchicago.edu
Betty McGuire, PhD
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
bam65@cornell.edu
James N Mills
Special Pathogens Branch
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (MS G-14)
Atlanta, GA, 30333
jum0@cdc.gov
José Roberto Moreira Embrapa Recursos Genéticos e Biotecnologia Parque Estação Biológica
70770-900 Brasília DF Brazil
jmoreira@cenargen.embrapa.br
Jan O Murie Department of Biological Sciences University of Alberta
Edmonton, AB T6G 2E9 Alberta, Canada
jan.murie@ualberta.ca
Eviatar Nevo Department of Environmental and Evolutionary Biology University of Haifa
Mount Carmel, Haifa 31905 Israel
nevo@research.haifa.ac.il
Scott Nunes Department of Biology University of San Francisco San Francisco, CA 94117 nunes@ace.usfca.edu
Karen J Nutt School of Biological Sciences University of Auckland Auckland, New Zealand knut006@ec.auckland.ac.nz
Madan K Oli Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation University of Florida
Gainesville, FL 32611 OliM@wec.ufl.edu
Richard S Ostfeld Institute of Ecosystem Studies Millbrook, NY 12545 ROstfeld@ecostudies.org
Donald H Owings Department of Psychology University of California One Shields Avenue Davis, CA 95616-8686 dhowings@ucdavis.edu
Contributors xi
Trang 13Wayne K Potts
Molecular Biology Program
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, UT 84112
potts@biology.utah.edu
Jan Randall
Department of Biology
University of San Francisco
San Francisco, CA 94117
jrandall@sfsu.edu
David O Ribble
Biology Department
Trinity University
San Antonio, TX 78212
dribble@trinity.edu
S Craig Roberts
School of Biological Sciences
University of Liverpool
Liverpool UK L69 7ZB
craig.roberts@liv.ac.uk
Diane L Rowe
Texas A&M University
Department of Wildlife & Fisheries Sciences
College Station, Texas 77843-2258
Albrecht I Schulte-Hostedde
Department of Biology
Laurentian University
Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
P3E 2C6
aschultehostedde@laurentian.ca
Paul W Sherman
Department of Neurobiology and Behavior
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853
pws6@cornell.edu
Robert S Sikes
Biology Department
University of Arkansas, Little Rock
Little Rock, AR 72204
rssikes@ualr.edu
Nancy G Solomon Department of Zoology Miami University Oxford, Ohio 45056 solomong@muohio.edu
Andrew Taber Wildlife Conservation Society
2300 Southern Boulevard Bronx, NY 10460 ataber@wcs.org
Beatrice Van Horne
1829 Elgin Dr
Vienna, VA 22182 bvanhorne@fs.fed.us
Zuoxin Wang Department of Psychology Department of Biological Sciences Neuroscience Program
Florida State University Tallahassee, FL 32306 zwang@darwin.psy.fsu.edu
Jane M Waterman Department of Biology University of Central Florida Orlando, FL 32816-2368 waterman@mail.ucf.edu
Jerry O Wolff Department of Biological Sciences
St Cloud State University
St Cloud, MN 56301 jowolff@stcloudstate.edu
Hannu Ylönen Department of Biological and Environmental Science University of Jyväskyla
FIN 40351 Jyväskyla, Finland hylonen@dodo.jyu.fi
xii Contributors
Trang 142 Rodney L Honeycutt, Laurence J Frabotta, and Diane
L Rowe: Research reported on hystricognath rodents
was funded by National Science Foundation Grant DEB
9615163 to RLH
4 Nancy G Solomon and Brian Keane: We thank the
editors for the invitation to participate in this book
Kristen Lucia, Gail Michener, Paul Sherman, and Jerry
Wolff provided valuable feedback on a previous version
of this manuscript We also are grateful to Michelle
Ed-wards, Stephanie Kortering, Samantha Lowe, Lisa
Wal-ter, and Beth Widen for assistance with references NGS
and BK were supported by NSF DEB-0316818 and NGS
was supported by 1 R15 6M069409-01 during the
prep-aration of this book chapter
5 Lara S Carroll and Wayne K Potts: We would like to
thank the editors for substantive comments on an earlier
version of this manuscript This manuscript was written
while WKP was supported by NIH (GM39578) and NSF
(IBN-9904609) grants
6 Matina C Kalcounis-Rüppell and David O Ribble: We
would like to acknowledge the assistance of Stacy Huff,
Michelle Icenhower, and Adrian Sherman in compiling
literature for our review and analysis Robert Bradley
helped us to understand Neotomine-Peromyscine
sys-tematics Comments of Jack Millar, Maarten Vonhof,
Eileen Lacey, and two anonymous reviewers improved
earlier versions of this manuscript We thank the editors
for their insight, suggestions, and editorial guidance
8 F Stephen Dobson and Madan K Oli: We owe
spe-cial thanks to the editors for suggesting that we review
rodent life histories D R Broussard, P H Harvey,
T J Karels, and S C Stearns provided excellent
com-ments and suggestions for improvement of the
manu-script FSD’s contribution to the chapter was supported
by a National Science Foundation grant for research
(DEB-0089473)
9 Lee C Drickamer: I thank the many undergraduates,
particularly at Williams College, graduate students and
undergraduates at Southern Illinois University, and
fac-ulty colleagues at those two schools and at Northern
Arizona University for their invaluable assistance,
dis-cussions, and enthusiasm Portions of the work in my
laboratory and in field settings were supported by grants
from the National Institutes of Health and National
Sci-ence Foundation I thank the editors for their foresight
in organizing this volume and for their diligence in put-ting it all together
10 Albrecht I Schulte-Hostedde: I thank the editors for the opportunity to contribute this chapter and for improv-ing it with their insightful comments Thanks to all who responded to my queries, including T Best, S Boutin,
J Hoogland, I Khokhlova, H Levenson, and R Sweit-zer Climate data from weather stations were provided
by J Pither A Oey provided valuable assistance
11 Robert S Sikes: I am grateful for constructive comments
on a previous version of this manuscript by T G Finley,
S Krackow, P W Sherman, and J O Wolff This work was supported in part by NSF Grant 9975445
12 R Boonstra, J M Barker, J Castillo, and Q E Fletcher: The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Coun-cil of Canada supported this research We thank Jim Ke-nagy for helpful comments on an earlier draft of this chapter
13 Scott Nunes: I thank Jerry Wolff and Steve Dobson for constructive, incisive, and helpful comments on earlier versions of this chapter
14 F Stephen Dobson: I owe special thanks to the editors for suggesting that I review the genetic properties of so-cial breeding groups Ron Chesser provided patient in-struction on the gene dynamics of social breeding groups during the summers of 1993 –1996, and the Savannah River Ecology Laboratory provided support via Visiting Faculty Fellowships in 1993, 1994, and 1996 In 1995,
I was an Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education Research Fellow at SREL I especially appreciate the support of the director of SREL, M H Smith, during these 4 years R K Chesser, N Perrin, and M F Win-terrowd provided excellent comments and suggestions for improvement of the manuscript I also owe special thanks to John Hoogland, who generously made his in-credible field data so freely available, and to Dave Foltz, for encouraging analyses on his and John’s allozyme data Preparation of the current manuscript was com-pleted while I was supported by a National Science Foundation grant for research (DEB-0089473)
15 Charles J Krebs, Xavier Lambin, and Jerry O Wolff: We thank Peter Brown, Grant Singleton, and Alice Kenney for their comments and suggestions on the manuscript
16 J Thomas Curtis, Yan Liu, Brandon J Aragona, and Zuoxin Wang: We are grateful to Christie Fowler and
Acknowledgments