Murids

Whiptail wallaby, Macropus parryi Familiar Mammalian herbivore Since murid arrival3 7.7 0.36 LPKS... 

Carpet python, Morelia spilota variegata Familiar Reptilian predator Since murid arrivalb 6.2 0.75 BFP... 

Spotted-tailed quoll, Dasyurus maculatus Familiar Marsupial predator Since murid arrival0 25.2 2.20 BFP... 

Tew, T. E., Todd, I. A., and Macdonald, D. W. (1994). Temporal changes in olfactory preferences in murid rodents revealed by live-trapping. JournaZf Mdtntna/cgy 75,750-756. 

But here is another piece of recent news.. .. It is a new simple body which will find its place between chlorine and iodine. The author of this discovery is M. Ballard of Montpellier. This new body, which he calls muride, is found in sea water. He has extracted it from the mother liquor of Montpellier brines by saturating them with chlorine and distilling. He obtains a dark red liquid substance boiling at 47°. The vapor resembles that of nitrous acid. Its specific gravity is 3. One preserves it under concentrated sulfuric... 

Since the name muride did not find favor with the French Academy s committee, consisting of Vauquelin, Thenard, and Gay-Lussac, the element is now known as bromine, meaning bad odor (12, 26). 

At first, A. J. Balard called tbis substance muride, but afterwards bromine— from the Greek (3pu>iws, a stench. A. J. Balard prepared hydrobromic, hypo-bromous, and bromous acids and he concluded his memoir by summing up the arguments in favour of the elementary nature of bromine ... 

Murids dominate in both faunas rich in small-mammal species (Osztramos, nos. 1 and 9), but cricetids are completely absent from locality no. 9. This striking difference is indicative of the fairly regular climatic fluctuations of the Upper Pliocene. 

Michaux, J., 1970. Les Rongeurs (arvicolides, murides et glirides) de la locality Arondelli a Villa-franca d Asti (Italie). Paleontogr. Italica, 66 (N.S. 36) 67—80. 

Brunjes, P.C. (1983) Olfactory bulb maturation in Acomys cahirinus , is neural growth similar in precocial and altricial murids Dev. Brain Res., 8, 335-341. 

Figure 11.1. A schematic representation of A the major , B the minor , and C the whole-genome , or horizontal , compositional transitions, or shifts, in the genomes of vertebrates. This scheme displays the CsCI profiles (which are good approximations of the compositional distributions of DNA molecules) along with the changes that follow the compositional shift under consideration (broken lines). A refers to the transitions between cold- and warm-blooded vertebrates B to the transition between the general mammalian pattern and the murid pattern C to the transitions among cold-blooded vertebrates D to the conservative mode of evolution. (Modified from Bernardi et al., 1997).

Differences in the compositional patterns of murids and other mammals... 

As far as the last point is concerned, if murids arose relatively late in mammalian... 

Mouchiroud D., Gautier C., Bernard G. (1988) The compositional distribution of coding sequences and DNA molecules in humans and murids. J. Mol. Evol. 27 311-320... 

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