Research Catalog

Title

Evolutionary relationships among rodents : a multidisciplinary analysis / edited by W. Patrick Luckett and Jean-Louis Hartenberger.

Author

NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Multidisciplinary Analysis of Evolutionary Relationships among Rodents (1984 : Paris, France)

Publication

New York : Plenum Press, ©1985.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Luckett, W. Patrick (Winter Patrick)
• Hartenberger, Jean-Louis.
• North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Scientific Affairs Division.
• Centre national de la recherche scientifique (France)

Description

xiii, 721 pages : illustrations; 26 cm.

Series Statement

NATO ASI series. Series A, Life sciences ; v. 92

Uniform Title

NATO ASI series. Series A, Life sciences ; v. 92.

Subjects

• Mammals > Evolution > Congresses
• Rodents > Evolution > Congresses

Genre/Form

• Congress
• proceedings (reports)
• Conference papers and proceedings
• Conference papers and proceedings.
• Actes de congrès.

Note

• "Proceedings of a NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Multidisciplinary Analysis of Evolutionary Relationships among Rodents held July 2-6, 1984, under the auspices of NATO and Centre national de la recherche scientifique in Paris, France"--T.p. verso.
• "Published in cooperation with NATO Scientific Affairs Division."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographies and index.

Contents

The order Rodentia : major questions on their evolutionary origin, relationships and suprafamilial systematics / J.-L. Hartenberger -- Possible phylogenetic relationship of Asiatic eurymylids and rodents, with comments on mimotonids / C.-K. Li and S.-Y. Ting -- Cranial evidence for rodent affinities / M.J. Novacek -- Rodent and lagomorph morphotype adaptations, origins, and relationships : some postcranial attributes analyzed / F.S. Szalay -- Enamel structure of early mammals and its role in evaluating relationships among rodents / A. Sahni -- Reconstruction of ancestral cranioskeletal features in the order Lagomorpha / N. Lopez Martinez -- A phylogeny of Rodentia and other eutherian orders : parsimony analysis utilizing amino acid sequences of alpha and beta hemoglobin chains / J. Shoshani, M. Goodman, J. Czelusniak, and G. Braunitzer -- Superordinal affinities of Rodentia studied by sequence analysis of eye lens protein / W.W. de Jong -- Superordinal and intraordinal affinities of rodents : developmental evidence from the dentition and placentation / W.P. Luckett -- Possible evolutionary relationships among Eocene and Lower Oligocene rodents of Asia, Europe and North America / M. Vianey-Liaud -- Cranial foramina of rodents / J.H. Wahlert -- Phylogenetic analysis of middle ear features in fossil and living rodents / R. Lavocat and J.-P. Parent -- Systematic value of the carotid arterial pattern in rodents / J. Bugge -- Homologies of molar cusps and crests, and their bearing on assessments of rodent phylogeny / P.M. Butler -- Evolutionary trends in the enamel of rodent incisors / W. von Koenigswald -- Rodent macromolecular systematics / V.M. Sarich -- Reproductive and chromosomal characters of ctenodactylids as a key to their evolutionary relationships / W. George -- The relationships, origin and dispersal of the hystricognathous rodents / A.E. Wood -- Myology of hystricognath rodents : an analysis of form, function, and phylogeny / C.A. Woods and J. W. Hermanson -- Amino acid sequence data and evolutionary relationships among hystricognaths and other rodents / J.J. Beintema -- New Phiomorpha and Anomaluridae from the late Eocene of North-West Africa : phylogenetic implications / J. J. Jaeger, C. Denys, and B. Coiffait -- Problems in muroid phylogeny : relationship to other rodents and origin of major groups / L.J. Flynn, L.L. Jacobs, and E.H. Lindsay -- Origin and evolutionary relationships among geomyoids / V. Fahlbusch -- Evolutionary data on steppe lemmings (Arvicolidae, Rodentia) / J. Chaline -- Karyotype variability and chromosome transilience in rodents : the case of the genus Mus / E. Capanna -- Electromorphs and phylogeny in muroid rodents / F. Bonhomme, D. Iskandar, L. Thaler, and F. Petter -- Evolutionary relationships among rodents : comments and conclusions / W.P. Luckett and J.-L. Hartenberger.

ISBN

• 0306420619
• 9780306420610

LCCN

85009480

OCLC

• ocm12052401
• 12052401
• SCSB-621335

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library