Use of the Calcaneum in Studies of Taxonomy and Food Habits

Stains, Howard J.

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“…Homer (1954) found a similar relationship between tail length and climbing ability. Stains (1959) and Layne (1970) found that foot-bone measurements and hind-foot lengths, respectively, were correlated with climbing and foraging abilities.…”

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A Comparison of Ecological and Morphological Overlap in a Peromyscus Community

Smartt¹

1978

Ecology

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The hypothesis that morphological structure of a community should reflect ecological structure (trophic relationships) was tested in this paper. An assemblage of closely related sympatric species of Peromyscus was studied to see how closely morphological structuring can describe actual food—use relationships in a community. Animals were collected during 4 different seasons and stomach contents were analyzed to reveal the diet of each species. A morphological analysis of the assemblage of Peromyscus was accomplished through the analysis of 4 external and 69 skeletal characters. Morphological and trophic relationships were computed using principal components and distance analysis. A positive relationship between morphological and ecological packing is shown by a correlation coefficient computed between food—use distances and morphological distances. Microhabitat use and foraging behavior are discussed in an attempt to expose actual mechanisms of competitive interactions.

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A Comparison of Ecological and Morphological Overlap in a Peromyscus Community

Smartt¹

1978

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“…These include adrenal weight (Christian 1967), size of the calcaneum (Stains 1959), red blood cell immune agglutination (Moody 1941), karyotype Arrighi 1966, Pathak et al 1973), and electrophoresis of salivary amylase (Aquadro and Patton 1980). Several of these methods require sacrificing the animal and are not viable for many ecological or behavioral studies.…”

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Mensular discrimination between sympatric Peromyscus leucopodus and Peromyscus maniculatus in southern Illinois

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Feldhamer²

1997

Acta Theriol.

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. 1997. Mensural discrimination between sympatric Peromyscus leucopus and P. maniculatus in southern Illinois. Acta Theriologica 42: 1-13.A total of 383 Peromyscus was collected from southern Illinois to determine morphological characteristics useful in identifying individuals as either P. leucopus (Rafinesque, 1818) or P. maniculatus (Wagner, 1845). Polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis of salivary amylase was used to positively identify all specimens. No univariate morphological character accurately discriminated between the two species because of a high degree of intraspecific variation. Stepwise discriminant function analysis of external characters correctly classified 97.9% of subadults to species. The most important external character was the tail length/body length ratio. This ratio was also the most important factor in discrimination of adults; the function correctly classified 98.6% of individuals. Considering skull measurements of adults, 9 cranial characters were needed to differentiate between the two species, with a correct classification of 98.9%. For old adults, all specimens were classified correctly using 5 cranial characters. There was no fast, easy, accurate method to discriminate between these species 100% of the time in the field.

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“…Whereas systematic studies have historically relied upon craniometrics, the more recent blending of systematic, evolutionary, phenetic, functional morphologic, and ecologic disciplines necessitates more post-cranial osteological investigation. Research in a variety of fields (Stains, 1959;Siege1 and Van Meter, 1973;Best, 1978;Smartt, 1978) has demonstrated the utility of post-cranial material in studies of recent mammals. Furthermore, post-cranial material from living mammals is used extensively in comparative studies of fossil mammals (Harris, 1963;James, 1963;Hutchison, 1968;Emry and Thorington, 1982).…”

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Skin‐Plus‐Skeleton Preparation As the Standard Mammalian Museum: Specimen

Hafner

1984

Curator The Museum Journal

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Use of the Calcaneum in Studies of Taxonomy and Food Habits

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A Comparison of Ecological and Morphological Overlap in a Peromyscus Community

A Comparison of Ecological and Morphological Overlap in a Peromyscus Community

Mensular discrimination between sympatric Peromyscus leucopodus and Peromyscus maniculatus in southern Illinois

Skin‐Plus‐Skeleton Preparation As the Standard Mammalian Museum: Specimen

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