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| Introduction | |
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| Rodents Societies as Model Systems | |
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| Rodent Evolution, Phylogenetics, and Biogeography | |
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| Male Mating Strategies in Rodents | |
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| Reproductive Strategies in Female Rodents | |
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| Sexual Selection: Using Social Ecology to Determine Fitness Differences | |
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| A Phylogenetic Analysis of the Breeding Systems of Neotomine-Peromyscine Rodents | |
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| Alternative Reproductive Tactics and Strategies of Tree Squirrels | |
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| Fast and Slow Life Histories of Rodents | |
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| Acceleration and Delay of Reproduction in Rodents | |
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| Sexual Size Dimorphism in Rodents | |
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| Facultative Sex Ratio Adjustment | |
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| The Role of the Stress Axis in Life-History Adaptations | |
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| Dispersal and Philopatry | |
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| Gene Dynamics and Social Behavior | |
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| Social Behavior and Self-Regulation in Murid Rodents | |
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| Neural Regulation of Social Behavior in Rodents | |
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| Ontogeny of Adaptive Behaviors | |
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| Social Learning by Rodents | |
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| Kin Recognition in Rodents: Issues and Evidence | |
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| Parental Care | |
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| The Ecology of Sociality in Rodents | |
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| Scent Marking | |
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| Nonparental Infanticide | |
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| Social Organization and Monogamy in the Beaver | |
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| Evolution of Pacifism and Sociality in Blind Mole Rats | |
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| Social and Antipredator Systems: Intertwining Links in Multiple Time Frames | |
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| The Evolution of Alarm Communication in Rodents: Structure, Function, and the Puzzle of Apparently Altruistic Calling | |
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| Fear and the Foraging, Breeding, and Sociality of Rodents | |
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| Ecology, Kinship, and Ground Squirrel Sociality: Insights from Comparative Analyses | |
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| Evolution of Sociality in Marmots: It Begins with Hibernation | |
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| Environmental Constraints and the Evolution of Sociality in Semifossorial Desert Rodents | |
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| Comparative Social Organization and Life History of Rattus and Mus | |
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| Social Organization and Resource Use in Capybaras and Maras | |
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| Social Structure in Octodontid and Ctenomyid Rodents | |
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| Socioecology of Rock-Dwelling Rodents | |
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| African Mole-Rats: Social and Ecological Diversity | |
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| Alarm Calling, Multiple Mating, and Infanticide among Black-Tailed, Gunnison's, and Utah Prairie Dogs | |
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| Issues in Rodent Conservation | |
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| Conservation of Ground Squirrels | |
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| Conservation of Prairie Dogs | |
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| Social Behavior, Demography, and Rodent-Borne Pathogens | |
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| Conclusions and Future Directions | |
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| Index | |