Locomotory adaptations in entoptychine gophers (Rodentia: Geomyidae) and the mosaic evolution of fossoriality

The impacts of Cenozoic climate and habitat changes on small mammal diversity of North America

(2017) Joshua X. Samuels et al.   GLOBAL AND PLANETARY CHANGE

Gregorymys veloxikua, The Oldest Pocket Gopher (Rodentia: Geomyidae), and The Early Diversification of Geomyoidea

(2017) Eduardo Jiménez-Hidalgo et al.   JOURNAL OF MAMMALIAN EVOLUTION

Influence of Evolutionary Allometry on Rates of Morphological Evolution and Disparity in strictly Subterranean Moles (Talpinae, Talpidae, Lipotyphla, Mammalia)

(2017) G. Sansalone et al.   JOURNAL OF MAMMALIAN EVOLUTION

Craniodental and forelimb specializations for digging in the South American subterranean rodent Ctenomys (Hystricomorpha, Ctenomyidae)

(2017) Cecilia C. Morgan et al.   MAMMALIAN BIOLOGY

Geometric morphometric analyses of worn cheek teeth help identify extant and extinct gophers (Rodentia, Geomyidae)

(2017) Jonathan J. M. Calede et al.   PALAEONTOLOGY

Unpredictability of escape trajectory explains predator evasion ability and microhabitat preference of desert rodents

(2017) Talia Y. Moore et al.   Nature Communications

Morphology captures diet and locomotor types in rodents

(2017) Luis D. Verde Arregoitia et al.   Royal Society Open Science

Getting a head in hard soils: Convergent skull evolution and divergent allometric patterns explain shape variation in a highly diverse genus of pocket gophers (Thomomys)

(2016) Ariel E. Marcy et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

COMPARATIVE TAPHONOMY OF THE MAMMALIAN REMAINS FROM THE CABBAGE PATCH BEDS OF WESTERN MONTANA (RENOVA FORMATION, ARIKAREEAN): CONTRASTING DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENTS AND SPECIMEN PRESERVATION

(2016) JONATHAN J. CALEDE   PALAIOS

Ecomorphological analysis of the astragalo-calcaneal complex in rodents and inferences of locomotor behaviours in extinct rodent species

(2016) Samuel Ginot et al.   PeerJ

New Rodent Material from the John Day Formation (Arikareean, Middle Oligocene to Early Miocene) of Oregon

(2015) William W. Korth et al.   ANNALS OF CARNEGIE MUSEUM

Life in Burrows Channelled the Morphological Evolution of the Skull in Rodents: the Case of African Mole-Rats (Bathyergidae, Rodentia)

(2015) Helder Gomes Rodrigues et al.   JOURNAL OF MAMMALIAN EVOLUTION

The first Late Eocene continental faunal assemblage from tropical North America

(2015) Eduardo Jiménez-Hidalgo et al.   JOURNAL OF SOUTH AMERICAN EARTH SCIENCES

Extraordinarily preserved talpids (Mammalia, Lipotyphla) and the evolution of fossoriality

(2015) Achim H. Schwermann et al.   JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY

Cranial dimensions as estimators of body mass and locomotor habits in extant and fossil rodents

(2015) Ornella C. Bertrand et al.   JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY

A multivariate approach to infer locomotor modes in Mesozoic mammals

(2015) Meng Chen et al.   PALEOBIOLOGY

Transcriptome sequencing and phylogenomic resolution within Spalacidae (Rodentia)

(2014) Gong-Hua Lin et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Interaction of morphology, thermal physiology and burrowing performance during the evolution of fossoriality in Gymnophthalmini lizards

(2014) Agustín Camacho et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

An ecomorphological analysis of forelimb musculotendinous system in sigmodontine rodents (Rodentia, Cricetidae, Sigmodontinae)

(2014) Luz V. Carrizo et al.   JOURNAL OF MAMMALOGY

EXCEPTIONALLY WELL PRESERVED LATEST MIOCENE (HEMPHILLIAN) RODENT BURROWS FROM THE EASTERN GREAT PLAINS, UNITED STATES, AND A REVIEW OF THE BURROWS OF NORTH AMERICAN RODENTS

(2014) R. M. JOECKEL et al.   PALAIOS

A partial skeleton of the eomyid Eomyodon volkeri Engesser, 1987 (Mammalia: Rodentia) from the late Oligocene Fossil-Lagerstätte of Enspel, Germany

(2014) Thomas Engler et al.   Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments

Skeletal Morphology of Palaeocastor peninsulatus (Rodentia, Castoridae) from the Fort Logan Formation of Montana (early Arikareean): Ontogenetic and Paleoecological Interpretations

(2013) Jonathan Jean-Michel Calede   JOURNAL OF MAMMALIAN EVOLUTION

Movements and burrow use by northern grasshopper mice as a possible mechanism of plague spread in prairie dog colonies

(2013) John P. Kraft et al.   JOURNAL OF MAMMALOGY

Morphological Adaptations for Digging and Climate-Impacted Soil Properties Define Pocket Gopher (Thomomys spp.) Distributions

(2013) Ariel E. Marcy et al.   PLoS One

Fossil Mice and Rats Show Isotopic Evidence of Niche Partitioning and Change in Dental Ecomorphology Related to Dietary Shift in Late Miocene of Pakistan

(2013) Yuri Kimura et al.   PLoS One

A glimpse on the pattern of rodent diversification: a phylogenetic approach

(2012) Pierre-Henri Fabre et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Biting Performance and Skull Biomechanics of a Chisel Tooth Digging Rodent (Ctenomys tuconax; Caviomorpha; Octodontoidea)

(2012) Federico Becerra et al.   Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A-Ecological Genetics and Physiology

Testing convergent and parallel adaptations in talpids humeral mechanical performance by means of geometric morphometrics and finite element analysis

(2012) P. Piras et al.   JOURNAL OF MORPHOLOGY

New material ofAlphagaulus pristinus(Mammalia, Rodentia, Mylagaulidae) from the Deep River Formation (Montana, U.S.A.): Implications for ecology, ontogeny, and phylogeny

(2012) Jonathan J. M. Calede et al.   JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY

NIH Image to ImageJ: 25 years of image analysis

(2012) Caroline A Schneider et al.   NATURE METHODS

Grit not grass: Concordant patterns of early origin of hypsodonty in Great Plains ungulates and Glires

(2012) Phillip E. Jardine et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Forelimb proportions and fossorial adaptations in the scratch-digging rodentCtenomys(Caviomorpha)

(2011) A. Elissamburu et al.   JOURNAL OF MAMMALOGY

Turnover in burrowing rodents: The roles of competition and habitat change

(2011) Jonathan J.M. Calede et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Craniodental adaptations for digging in extinct burrowing beavers

(2010) Joshua X. Samuels et al.   JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY

Australia's first fossil marsupial mole (Notoryctemorphia) resolves controversies about their evolution and palaeoenvironmental origins

(2010) M. Archer et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Quantitative Morphological Proxies for Fossoriality in Small Mammals

(2009) Samantha S. B. Hopkins et al.   JOURNAL OF MAMMALOGY

Summer Burrows of Ord's Kangaroo Rats (Dipodomys ordii) in Western Nebraska: Food Content and Structure

(2009) Jeremy A. White   WESTERN NORTH AMERICAN NATURALIST

Evolution of morphological adaptations for digging in living and extinct ctenomyid and octodontid rodents

(2008) ENRIQUE P. LESSA et al.   BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Skeletal indicators of locomotor adaptations in living and extinct rodents

(2008) Joshua X. Samuels et al.   JOURNAL OF MORPHOLOGY

Tetrapod burrows from the Triassic of Antarctica

(2008) Christian A. Sidor et al.   JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY

Phylogeny and adaptive diversity of rodents of the family Ctenomyidae (Caviomorpha): delimiting lineages and genera in the fossil record

(2008) D. H. Verzi   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

Functional anatomy of the limbs of erethizontidae (Rodentia, Caviomorpha): Indicators of locomotor behavior in Miocene porcupines

(2007) Adriana M. Candela et al.   JOURNAL OF MORPHOLOGY