Microtine rodents

Kataev, G.D., J. Suomela, and P. Palokangas. 1994. Densities of microtine rodents along a pollution gradient from a copper-nickel smelter. Oecologia 97 491-498. 

In microtine rodents, feed aversion and toxicant avoidance were the most significant behaviors elicited by feed tainted with paraquat (Linder and Richmond 1990). 

Stehn, R.A. and Jannett, F.J. (1981) Male-induced abortion in various microtine rodents. J. Mammal. 62, 369-372. 

Negus, N. C. and Berger, P. J. (1988) Cohort analysis environmental cues and diapause in microtine rodents. In M.S. Boyce (Ed.), Evolution of Life Histories of Mammals, Theory and Pattern. Yale University Press, New Haven, pp. 65-1 A. 

Batzli, G. O., Getz, L. L., and Hurley, S. S. (1977). Suppression of growth and reproduction of microtine rodents by social bcctors.JournalofMammalogy 58,583-591. 

Jung, H. G. and Batzli, G. O. (1981). Nutritional ecology of microtine rodents effects of plant extracts on the growth of arctic micro tines. Journal of Mammalogy 62, 286-292. 

Arctic microtine rodents (three species) / Labrador (Ledum palustre Ericaceae [AD]). (21)... 

E. multilocularis Microtine rodents (Man) Multilocular hydatid cyst Fox... 

An illustrative example of differential zonal distribution in closely related species was provided by Insel et al. (1994), who studied the distribution of vasopressin V,a receptors in the brain of different species of voles (microtine rodents). A complex distribution with alternating bands of high and low receptor density was observed in... 

Insel TR, Wang Z-X, Ferris CF (1994) Patterns of brain vasopressin receptor distribution associated with social organization in microtine rodents. J. Neurosci, 14, 5381-5392. 

Only a small portion (0.037%) of copper mining wastes discharged into riparian wetlands is bioavailable to resident rodents, as judged by measurements of copper in carcasses of mice and voles. Populations of brown-backed voles Clethrionomys rufocanus) and other microtine rodents (Microtus spp.. Lemmas) are low or absent in the vicinity of Russian copper-nickel smelters. The reasons for this decline are unknown but may be due to a decrease in the abundance of important food plants (lichens, mosses, seed plants), and - as shown in preference studies - to an avoidance of plants from the contaminated area. Bank voles (Clethrionomys glareolus) from areas of Poland subjected to various degrees of industrial contamination have copper concentrations in tissues comparable to those in animals from polluted sites in North America and the United Kingdom... 

Further studies in the field of chemo-communication should focus more on the role of female-female interactions in the population regulation of microtine rodents. Female-female interactions have not gained yet the attention they deserve. 

Getz, L. L. 1978. Speculation on social structure and population cycles of microtine rodents. Biologist, 60, 134-147. 

Jannett, F. J. Jr. 1986. Morphometric patterns among microtine rodents. I. Sexual selection suggested by relative scent gland development in representative voles Microtus). In Chemical signals in vertebrates (Ed. by D. Duvall, D. Muller-Schwarze, R. M. Silverstein, eds.), pp. 541—550. New York Plenum Press. 

Anderson, S., 1960, The baculum in microtine rodents, Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kans., 12 181. 

Hooper, E. T., and Hart, B. S., 1962, A synopsis of recent North American microtine rodents, Misc. Publ. Mus. Zool. Univ. Mich., 120 1. 

Quay, W. B., 1968, The specialized posterolateral sebaceous glandular regions in microtine rodents, J. Mammal., 49 427. 

Hasler, J. F., 1975, A review of reproduction and sexual maturation in the microtine rodents. Biologist, 57 52. 

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