On the Genera of Rodents: An Attempt to bring up to Date the current Arrangement of the Order
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Reviewing the morphology of the jaw-closing musculature in squirrels, rats, and guinea pigs with contrast-enhanced microCT.
Philip G. Cox,Nathan Jeffery +1 more
TL;DR: The muscle architecture noninvasively and in 3D by using iodine‐enhanced microCT is reviewed for the first time and revealed an enlarged superficial masseter muscle in the guinea pig compared with the rat and squirrel, but a reduced deep masseter (possibly indicating reduced efficiency at the incisors).
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The bushlike radiation of muroid rodents is exemplified by the molecular phylogeny of the LCAT nuclear gene.
Johan Michaux,François Catzeflis +1 more
TL;DR: This phylogeny is interpreted as the result of a bushlike radiation at the end of the early Miocene, leading to emergence of most living subfamilies, and a sister group relationship between Malagasy Nesomyinae and south African Mystromyinae is proposed.
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Molecular systematics of gerbils and deomyines (Rodentia: Gerbillinae, Deomyinae) and a test of desert adaptation in the tympanic bulla
TL;DR: Support is found for the discordance between molecular and morphological phylogenies in gerbils being partly due to convergent adaptations to arid environments, primarily in the suite of traits associated with inflation of the tympanic bullae.
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Pleistocene rodents from the Torrent de Vallparadís section (Terrassa, northeastern Spain) and biochronological implications
Raef Minwer-Barakat,Joan Madurell-Malapeira,David M. Alba,Josep Aurell-Garrido,Soledad De Esteban-Trivigno,Salvador Moyà-Solà +5 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the rodents from the composite section of Torrent de Vallparadis (Terrassa, northeastern Spain) are described, with particular emphasis on the arvicolines.