Table of Contents
List of contributors; Foreword Jean-Louis Hartenberger and W. Patrick Luckett; 1. Rodentia: a model order? Lionel Hautier and Philip G. Cox; 2. A synopsis of rodent molecular phylogenetics, systematics and biogeography Pierre-Henri Fabre, Lionel Hautier and Emmanuel J. P. Douzery; 3. Emerging perspectives on some Paleocene sciurognaths rodents in Laurasia: the fossil record and its interpretation Mary R. Dawson; 4. Phylogeny and evolutionary history of hystricognathous rodents from the Old World during the Tertiary: new insights into the emergence of modern 'phiomorph' families Franck Barbière and Laurent Marivaux; 5. The history of South American octodontoid rodents and its contribution to evolutionary generalisations Diego H. Verzi, Cecilia C. Morgan and A. Itatí Olivares; 6. History, taxonomy and palaeobiology of the giant fossil rodents (Hystricognathi, Dinomyidae) Andrés Rinderknecht and R. Ernesto Blanco; 7. Advances in integrative taxonomy and the evolution of African murid rodents: how morphological trees hide the molecular forest Christiane Denys and Alisa Winkler; 8. Themes and variation in sciurid evolution V. Louise Roth and John M. Mercer; 9. Marmot evolution and global change in the last 10 million years P. David Polly, Andrea Cardini, Edward B. Davis and Scott Steppan; 10. Grades and clades among rodents: the promise of geometric morphometrics Lionel Hautier, Philip G. Cox and Renaud Lebrun; 11. Biogeographic variations in wood mice: testing for the role of morphological variation as a line of least resistance to evolution Sabrina Renaud, Jean-Pierre Quére and Johan R. Michaux; 12. The oral apparatus of rodents: variations on the theme of a gnawing machine Robert E. Druzinsky; 13. The muscles of mastication in rodents and the function of the medial pterygoid Philip G. Cox and Nathan Jeffery; 14. Functional morphology of rodent middle ears Matthew J. Mason; 15. Variations and anomalies in rodent teeth and their importance for testing developmental models Cyril Charles and Laurent Viriot; 16. The great variety of dental structures and dynamics in rodents: new insights into their ecological diversity Helder Gomes Rodrigues; 17. Convergent evolution of molar morphology in Muroidea (Rodentia, Mammalia): connections between chewing movements and crown morphology Vincent Lazzari, Franck Guy, Pierre-Emmanuel Salais, Adélaïde Euriat, Cyril Charles, Laurent Viriot, Paul Tafforeau and Jacques Michaux; 18. Developmental mechanisms in the evolution of phenotypic traits in rodent teeth Elodie Renvoisé and Sophie Montuire; 19. Diversity and evolution of femoral variation in Ctenohystrica Laura A. B. Wilson and Madeleine Geiger; 20. Morphological disparity of the postcranial skeleton in rodents and its implications for palaeobiological inferences: the case of the extinct Theriodomyidae (Rodentia, Mammalia) Monique Vianey-Liaud, Lionel Hautier and Laurent Marivaux; Index.
