Voles 101 — Tetrapod Zoology

And that will do. There is lots on rodents in the Tet Zoo archives… as ever, mostly ruined by the downfall of ver 2 and 3. One day I might renovate it for republication here. Among those articles that are still worth checking out are…

• Osgood, Fuertes, and mice that swim and mice that wade, March 2006

• Australia, land of placentals (part I), December 2007

• Australia, land of placentals (part II), December 2007

• New, obscure, and nearly extinct rodents of South America, and… when fossils come alive, November 2008

• Of vole plagues and hip glands, January 2014

• North America: land of obscure, freaky voles, January 2014

• A brief history of muskrats, September 2014

• Cricetomyines: the African pouched rats and mice, November 2014

• African Climbing Mice and the Congo Link Rat, October 2015

• Meet the Shreats, July 2016

• The Sigmodontines, March 2017

• Cloudrunners and Other Cloud Rats of the Philippines, June 2020

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Chaline, J. & Graf, J. D. 1988. Phylogeny of the Arvicolidae (Rodentia): biochemical and paleontological evidence. Journal of Mammalogy 69, 22-33.

Cook, J. A., Runck, A. M. & Conroy, C. J. 2004. Historical biogeography at the crossroads of the northern continents: molecular phylogenetics of red-backed voles (Rodentia: Arvicolinae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 30, 767-777.

Conroy, C. J. & Cook, J. A. 1999. MtDNA evidence for repeated pulses of speciation within arvicoline and murid rodents. Journal of Mammalian Evolution 6, 221-245.

Galewski, T., Tilak, M.-K., Sanchez, S., Chevret, P., Paradis, E. & Douzery, E. J. P. 2006. The evolutionary radiation of Arvicolinae rodents (voles and lemmings): relative contribution of nuclear and mitochondrial DNA phylogenies. BMC Evolutionary Biology 2006 6: 80.

Lawrence, M. J. & Brown, R. W. 1967. Mammals of Britain: Their Tracks, Trails and Signs. Blandford Press, Poole, Dorset.

Martin, R. A. 2007. Arvicolidae. In Janis, C. M., Gunnell, G. F. & Uhen, M. D. (eds) Evolution of Tertiary Mammals of North America, Vol. 2. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 480-497.