PREFACE ....................................................... vii
PART I.
Introduction: North America and the origins of a "Curator's
Curator" ........................................................ 1
Genes, rats, and sinking boats: a biographical perspective on
James L. Patton ................................................. 5
Javier A. Rodríguez-Robles and Harry W. Greene
Bibliography for James L. Patton ............................... 39
Documenting ecological change in time and space: the San
Joaquin Valley of California ................................... 57
Patrick A. Kelly, Scott E. Phillips and Daniel F. Williams
Coat color variation in rock pocket mice (Chaetodipus
intermedins): from genotype to phenotype ....................... 79
Hopi E. Hoekstra and Michael W. Nachman
Climate change and the distribution of Peromyscus in
Michigan: is global warming already having an impact? ......... 101
Philip Myers, Barbara L. Lundrigan and Robert Vande Koppel
PART II.
Introduction: South America and journeys into the unknown ..... 127
Analyses of skull morphology in 15 species of the genus
Ctenomys, including seven karyologically distinct forms of
Ctenomys minutus (Rodentia, Ctenomyidae) ...................... 131
Thales Renato O. de Freitas
Dynamics of genetic differentiation in the Río Negro
tuco-tuco (Ctenomys rionegrensis) at the local and
geographic scale .............................................. 155
Enrique P. Lessa, Gabriela Wlasiuk and John Carlos Garza
Morphological and cytogenetic analyses of Bibimys labiosus
(Winge, 1887) (Rodentia, Sigmodontinae): implications for
its affinities with the scapteromyine group ................... 175
Pablo Rodrigues Gonçalves, João Alves de Oliveira,
Margaret Oliveira Corrêa, and Leila Maria Pessôa
An introduction to the genus Bibimys (Rodentia:
Sigmodontinae): phylogenetic position and alpha taxonomy ...... 211
Guillermo D'Elia, Ulyses F.J. Pardiñas and Philip Myers
A revision of the genera of arboreal Echimyidae (Rodentia:
Echimyidae, Echimyinae), with descriptions of two new
genera ........................................................ 247
Louise H. Emmons
Diversification of small mammals in the Atlantic forest of
Brazil: testing the alternatives .............................. 311
Márcia С. Lara, Lena Geise and Christopher J. Schneider
Small mammal communities in upland and floodplain forests
along an Amazonian white-water river .......................... 335
Jay R. Malcolm, James L. Patton and
Maria Nazareth F. de Silva
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS .......................................... 381
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