Striped mouse
Journal Article of the Month
Publications
- Maxwell, S. J., Hernandez Duran, L. C., Rowell, M. K., & Rymer, T. L. (2021). An iconography of extant Gibberulus Jousseaume, 1888 (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Strombidae), and the introduction of a new species from the southwestern Pacific. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 134(1), 89-115.
- Maxwell, S. J., Rymer, T. L., Rowell, M. K., Hernandez Duran, L. C., Berschauer, D. P., Underdown, M., ... & Dekkers, A. M. (2021). Defining and bringing relevance of meaning to species group-level taxa. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 134(1), 27-28.
- Maxwell, S. J., Watt, J., Rymer, T. L., & Congdon, B. B. (2021). A checklist of near-shore strombidae (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Neostromboidae) on Green Island, Queensland. Biogeographia–The Journal of Integrative Biogeography, 36.
- Delarue, E. M., Kerr, S. E., & Rymer, T. L. (2020). Habitat and sex effects on behaviour in fawn-footed mosaic-tailed rats (Melomys cervinipes). Australian Mammalogy, 43(3), 319-329.
- Duran, L. H., Rymer, T. L., & Wilson, D. T. (2020). Variation in venom composition in the Australian funnel-web spiders Hadronyche valida. Toxicon: X, 8, 100063.
- Maxwell, S. J., Congdon, B. C., & Rymer, T. L. (2020). Essentialistic pluralism: The theory of spatio-temporal positioning of species using integrated taxonomy. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland, The, 124, 81-97.
- Maxwell, S. J., Dekkers, A. M., Rymer, T. L. & Congdon, B. C. (2020). Towards resolving the American and West African Strombidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Neostromboidae) using integrated taxonomy. The Festivus 52: 3-38.
- Maxwell, S. J., Rowell, M. K., Hernandez Duran, L. C., & Rymer, T. L. (2020). Population structure of'Canarium labiatum'(Roding, 1798)(Mollusca: Neostromboidae: Strombidae) on green Island, Great Barrier Reef, Queensland. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland, The, 128, 15-22.
- Maxwell, S. J., Rymer, T. L., & Dekkers, A. M. (2020). Canarium urceus (Linné, 1758) studies Part 1: The Recircumscription of Strombus urceus Linné, 1758 (Neostromboidae: Strombidae). The Festivus 52 (2): 113-127.
- Maxwell, S. J., Rymer, T. L., Congdon, B. C., & Dekkers, A. M. (2020). Studies in Canarium urceus (Linné, 1758) Part 2: Strombus anatellus Duclos, 1844, Strombus crassilabrum Anton, 1839, Strombus incisus Wood, 1828 and Strombus ustulatus form laevis Dodge, 1946 (Neostromboidae: Strombidae). The Festivus, 52(4), 335-344.
- Rowell, M. K. & Rymer, T. L. (2020). Innovation in a native Australian rodent, the fawn-footed mosaic-tailed rat (Melomys cervinipes). Animal Cognition 23: 301-310.
- Rowell, M. K., & Rymer, T. L. (2020). Growth and behavioural development of the fawn-footed mosaic-tailed rat (Melomys cervinipes). Australian Mammalogy, 43(3), 330-334.
- Rymer, T. L. (2020). The role of olfactory genes in the expression of rodent paternal care behavior. Genes 11: 292.
- Maxwell, S. J., Bordon, A. V., Rymer, T. L. & Congdon, B. C. (2019). The birth of a species and the validity of hybrid nomenclature demonstrated with a revision of hybrid taxa within Strombidae (Neostromboidae). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 132: 119-130.
- Rowell, M. K. & Rymer, T. L. (2020). Rodentia Cognition. In: Vonk J., Shackelford T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Animal Cognition and Behavior. Springer, Cham
- Maxwell, S. J., Dekkers, A. M., Rymer, T. L. & Congdon, B. C. (2019). Recognising and defining a new crown clade within Stromboidea Rafinesque, 1815 (Mollusca, Gastropoda). ZooKeys 867: 1-7.
- Maxwell, S. J., Dekkers, A. M., Rymer, T. L. & Congdon, B. C. (2019). Laevistrombus Abbott 1960 (Gastropoda: Strombidae): Indian and southwest Pacific species. Zootaxa 4555: 491-506.
- Paulling, K., Wilson, D. & Rymer, T. L. (2019). Olfactory recognition of snake cues by fawn-footed mosaic-tailed rats Melomys cervinipes. Behaviour 156: 1235-1253.
- Rymer, T. L. (2019). Parental Investment. In: Vonk J., Shackelford T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Animal Cognition and Behavior. Springer, Cham
- Callaway, W. A., Turner, A. A., Croshaw, O. B., Ferguson, J. A., Julson, Z. J.-N., Volp, T. M., Kerr, S. E. & Rymer, T. L. (2018). Melomys cervinipes (Rodentia: Muridae). Mammalian Species 50: 134-147.
- Maxwell, S. J., Congdon, B. C. & Rymer, T. L. (2018). A new species of Paraseraphs (Gastropoda, Seraphsidae) from the Priabonian White Limestone Formation of Jamaica. Paleontological Journal 52: 37-39.
- Maxwell, S. J., Liverani, V., Rymer, T. L. & Congdon, B. C. (2018). A revision of Terebellum delicatulum Kuroda and Kawamoto in Kawamoto and Tanabe, 1956 (Gastropoda, Seraphsidae). Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland 123: 61-67.
- Rymer, T. L. & Pillay, N. (2018). An integrated understanding of paternal care in mammals: lessons from the rodents. Journal of Zoology 306: 69-76.
- Maxwell, S. J., Rymer, T. L. & Congdon, B. C. (2017). Sex-ratio bias in Laevistrombus canarium Linné, 1758 (Gastropoda: Strombidae) from Far North Queensland, Australia. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 60:133-138.
- Pillay, N. & Rymer, T. L. (2017). Behavioural correlates of group size and group persistence in the African ice rat Otomys sloggetti robertsi. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 71:62.
- Pillay, N. & Rymer, T. L. (2017). Preference for Outbreeding in Inbred Littledale’s Whistling Rats Parotomys littledalei. Evoutionary Biology 44:21-30.
- Preece, D.,...Rymer, T. L. et al. (2017). A guide for ecologists: Detecting the role of disease in faunal declines and managing population recovery. Biological Conservation 214:136-146.
- Maxwell, S. J. & Rymer, T. L. (2016). Commercially driven taxonomy: the necessity of knowing species. The Festivus 48: 52-53.
- Maxwell, S. J., Congdon, B. C. & Rymer, T. L. (2016). A new species of Vasticardium (Bivalvia: Cardiidae) from Queensland, Australia. The Festivus 48:248-252.
- Pillay, N., Rimbach, R. & Rymer, T. L. (2016). Pre- and postnatal dietary protein deficiency influences anxiety, memory and social behaviour in the African striped mouse Rhabdomys dilectus chakae. Physiology & Behavior 161: 38-46.
- Rymer, T. L., Pillay, N. & Schradin, C. (2016). Resilience to droughts in mammals: a conceptual framework for estimating vulnerability of a single species. The Quarterly Review of Biology 91: 133-176.
- Delarue, E.M.P., Kerr, S.E., Rymer, T.L. (2015). Habitat complexity, environmental change and personality: A tropical perspective. Behavioural Processes 120: 101-110.
- Pillay, N. & Rymer, T. L. (2015). Alloparenting enhances the emotional, social and cognitive performance of female African striped mice, Rhabdomys pumilio. Animal Behaviour 99: 43-52.
- Mackay, M., Rymer, T. L. & Pillay, N. (2014). Separation at weaning from the family is stressful for naturally group-living, but not solitary-living, male African striped mice Rhabdomys. Stress 17: 266-274.
- Rymer, T. L. & Pillay, N. (2014). Alloparental care in the African striped mouse Rhabdomys pumilio is age-dependent and influences the development of paternal care. Ethology 120: 11-20.
- Rymer, T. L., Thomson, R. L. & Whiting, M. J. (2014). At home with the birds: Kalahari tree skinks associate with sociable weaver nests despite African pygmy falcon presence. Austral Ecology 39: 839-847.
- Hinze, A., Rymer, T. & Pillay, N. (2013). Spatial dichotomy of sociality in the African ice rat. Journal of Zoology, London 290: 208-214.
- Rymer, T.L. & Pillay, N. (2013). Maternal care in the African striped mouse Rhabdomys pumilio: a behaviourally flexible phenotype that is modified by experience. Developmental Psychobiology 55: 265-274.
- Rymer, T. L., Pillay, N. & Schradin, C. (2013). Extinction or survival? Behavioral flexibility in response to environmental change in the African striped mouse Rhabdomys. Sustainability 5: 163-186.
- Chapman, T., Rymer, T. & Pillay, N. (2012). Behavioural correlates of urbanisation in the Cape ground squirrel Xerus inauris. Naturwissenschaften 99: 893-902.
- Pillay, N. & Rymer, T. L. (2012). Behavioural divergence, interfertility and speciation: a review. Behavioural Processes 91: 223-235.
- Rymer, T. L. & Pillay, N. (2012). The development of exploratory behaviour in the African striped mouse Rhabdomys reflects a gene x enviroment compromise. Behavior Genetics 42: 845-856.
- Rymer, T. & Pillay, N. (2011). Transmission of parental care behaviour in African striped mice, Rhabdomys pumilio. Journal of Experimental Zoology 315: 631-638.
- Rymer, T. L. & Pillay, N. (2011). The influence of the early rearing environment on the development of paternal care in African striped mice. Ethology 117: 284-293.
- Rymer, T. & Pillay, N. (2010). Female mate choice for paternal care behaviour in African striped mice Rhabdomys pumilio: the role of experience. Behaviour 147: 1101-1119
- Rymer, T., Schradin, C. & Pillay, N. (2008). Social transmission of information about novel food in two populations of the African striped mouse, Rhabdomys pumilio. Animal Behaviour 76: 1297-1304
- Rymer, T. L., Kinahan, A. A. & Pillay, N. (2007). Fur characteristics of the African ice rat Otomys sloggetti robertsi: Modifications for an alpine existence. Journal of Thermal Biology 32: 428-432
- Maxwell, S. J., & Rymer, T. L. (2021). Are the ICZN and PhyloCode that incompatible? A summary of the shifts in Stromboidean taxonomy and the definition of two new subfamilies in Stromboidae (Mollusca, Neostromboidae). The Festivus, 53(1), 44-51.
- Rowell, M. K., Pillay, N., & Rymer, T. L. (2021). Problem solving in animals: proposal for an ontogenetic perspective. Animals, 11(3), 866.
- Hernandez Duran, L., Wilson, D. T., Briffa, M., & Rymer, T. L. (2021). Beyond spider personality: The relationships between behavioral, physiological, and environmental factors. Ecology and Evolution, 11(7), 2974-2989.
- Pillay, N., & Rymer, T. L. (2021). Sons benefit from paternal care in African striped mice. Developmental Psychobiology, 63(4), 662-675.
- Rymer, T. L., Cruise, M., & Pillay, N. (2021). Decision-making by bushveld gerbils (Gerbilliscus leucogaster). Journal of Comparative Psychology, 135(2), 244.
- Maxwell, S. J., Rymer, T. L., & Congdon, B. C. (2021). Resolving phylogenetic and classical nomenclature: A revision of Seraphsidae Jung, 1974 (Gastropoda: Neostromboidae). Zootaxa, 4990(3), 401-453.
- Rowell, M. K., & Rymer, T. L. (2021). Exploration influences problem solving in the fawn‐footed mosaic‐tailed rat (Melomys cervinipes). Ethology, 127(7), 592-604.
- Maxwell, S. J., Rymer, T. L., & Watt, J. (2021). Field Notes on Sex-Bias in Gibberulus dekkersi Maxwell, Hernandez Duran, Rowell & Rymer, 2021 (Gastropoda: Neostromboidae: Strombidae) on the Great Barrier Reef. Pacific Science, 75(4), 525-530.
- Rowell, M. K., Santymire, R. M., & Rymer, T. L. (2021). Corticosterone Metabolite Concentration Is Not Related to Problem Solving in the Fawn-Footed Mosaic-Tailed Rat Melomys Cervinipes. Animals, 12(1), 82.
- Maxwell, S. J., Rymer, T. L., & Congdon, B. C. (2021). A theoretical composite model for population sex-specific shell size dynamics in Strombidae (Gastropoda, Neostromboidae). Journal of Natural History, 55(41-42), 2661-2672.
Striped mouse (Rhabdomys pumilio) on the cover of the August edition of Behaviour
Biological news
Thursday, October 28, 2010
Summary: Elie et al. (2010)
In birds, vocal duetting is a mutual acoustic joint display, usually made by a mated pair, of temporally coordinated vocalisations (vocal or nonvocal sounds). Elie et al. (2010) investigated whether private vocalisations between pairs of zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata) could be considered vocal duetting. They recorded meeting sequences (vocal sounds made upon return to the nest) and sentinel sequences (vocal sounds made when one individual was outside the nest) to determine whether these sequences fitted the identified criteria for vocal duetting. They found that meeting sequences were more common when separation period increased, whereas sentinel sequences were more common when separation period decreased. For both sequence types, the number of female and male calls were positively correlated, indicating coordination between mates. Elie et al. (2010) propose that these private calls represent duets. Since partners performed coordinated mutual displays, mutual displays represent vocal duets and may function to mediate pair bond maintenance.
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Summary: Clutton-Brock et al. (2006)
For most animals, competition is more intense in the sex that invests less in offspring. However, in some cooperatively breeding species, such as meerkats (Suricata suricatta), females (which normally invest more in care) compete more frequently and intensely. In the case of meerkats, a single dominant female will monopolise reproduction in a group. Clutton-Brock et al. (2006) showed that female meerkats gain greater reproductive benefits from acquiring dominance status and the traits that increase competitive ability also exerted a greater influence on breeding success. Individual differences in breeding success depend on the length of time the individual remains dominant in the group. Clutton-Brock et al. (2006) show that females that reach dominance status have longer breeding tenures and gain greater reproductive benefits than males. They suggest that the greater benefits accrued could explain why females compete so intensely for breeding opportunities. They suggest that the mechanism generating sex differences in reproductive competition in parental investment is not only related to sex differences in parental investment. They also suggest that competition for breeding opportunities influences the evolution of sex differences and how sexual selection operates.
Sunday, October 17, 2010
Summary: Smith et al. (2002)
Humans have three types of cone receptor, while birds have four and are sensitive to ultraviolet light (UV). It is thus likely that birds require four primary colours for colour vision and are thus tetrachromatic. Like humans, birds have short, medium and long wavelength sensitive single cones. Birds use UV signals for a number of tasks, such as mate choice and foraging, but few studies have investigated a role for UV in the detection of chromaticity differences. Achromatic mechanisms are involved in the perception of brightness while chromatic mechanisms are responsible for the perception of colour differences. Smith et al. (2002) developed a 'colour blindness' test, which they administered to a passerine, the European starling (Sturnus vulgaris), and a non-passerine, the Japanese quail (Coturnix c. japonica). This was an associative learning technique where the bird had to learn to discriminate between patterns of random intensity with or without UV reflectance. Both species were able to distinguish between orange and red stimuli, and between UV and non-UV stimuli, and were making the discrimination using chromaticity differences, not achromatic cues. This indicates that the output of the UV cone is involved in chromatic colour vision.
Thursday, October 7, 2010
Summary: Persaud & Galef (2005)
Generally, females invest more in their offspring than males, therefore they should be more choosy when selecting mates. Furthermore, in species where sexual coercion occurs, females may exert an influence on paternity by selectively voiding or retaining sperm of reproductive partners, which might affect their partner's reproductive success. This is known as postcopulatory or cryptic mate choice. Persaud & Galef (2005) tested whether male Japanese quail (Coturnix japonica) that are preferred by females have higher reproductive success (measured by likelihood of egg fertilization) than males that are not preferred by females. They also tested whether a male's reproductive success could be increased if a female observed him courting and mating with another female. They found that males that are preferred by females have a greater likelihood of fertilizing her eggs and that a female's preference could be enhanced by her observations of male mating behaviour. In addition, choosing a male that had courted and mated previously increased his likelihood of successfully fertilizing another female's eggs. Furthermore, females can identify males that are more likely to inseminate them and can exert a degree of control over which male will fertilize her eggs, thereby influencing both paternity and a male's reproductive success. The results suggest that female Japanese quail can exercise postcopulatory mate choice and that female preference can directly or indirectly affect a male's fertilization success.
Friday, October 1, 2010
Summary: Viellette & Reebs (2010)
Syrian hamsters (Misocricetus auratus) are used extensitvely in biomedical and behavioural research, but many aspects of hamster welfare remain open to study. Replacing soiled bedding is standard animal husbandry practice, but the how often this should be done is still questionable, as cage cleaning can induce stress. Veillette & Reebs (2010) tested whether Syrian hamsters prefer new bedding in contrast to soiled, lived-in bedding for nesting and they also assessed the relative value of shelters. They used 15 male and 15 female animals, none of which have previous experience with shelters. Most male and female hamsters favoured the old cage over the new, regardless of the presence of a shelter, and the majority of male hamsters (and some females) never nested in the new cage. Their results suggest that nesting hamsters show low motivation for a cage with new bedding and they value shelters. Veillette & Reebs (2010) indicate that the standard husbandry practice of weekly cleaning may only be justified on the basis of sanitary and health considerations.
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