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Post by Shooting Star on Sept 15, 2007 9:16:45 GMT -8
Glage, S., Dorsch, M., Heidrich, H.J., & Bleich, A. (2007). Rederivation of Helicobacter hepaticus-infected Mongolian gerbils by Caesarean section and cross-fostering to rats and mice. Laboratory Animals 41, 103–110. www.ingentaconnect.com/content/rsm/lab/2007/00000041/00000001/art00011;jsessionid=2nrsvho0kfi03.alice?format=print*Successful rearing of gerbil pups by mice and rats Chantry D (1964) The effects of handling and cage changing on breeding mice. Journal of the Animal Technicians Association 15, 78–80. Cisar CF, Jayson G (1967) Effects of frequency of cage cleaning on rat litters prior to weaning. Laboratory Animal Care 17, 215–17. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Feel free to add, just make sure it's not already on the list.
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Post by Shooting Star on Oct 4, 2007 18:32:49 GMT -8
Noirot, Elaine (2004). Ultrasounds and maternal behavior in small rodents. Developmental Psychobiology 5, pp. 371-87. www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/abstract/109704857/ABSTRACT?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0Elwood, R. W., Ostermeyer, M.C. (2006). The effects of food deprivation, aggression, and isolation on infanticide in the male Mongolian gerbil. Aggressive Behavior 10, pp. 293-301. www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/abstract/112414795/ABSTRACTEbensperger, L. A. (1998). Strategies and counterstrategies to infanticide in mammals. Biological Reviews 73, pp. 321-46. journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=693Waldman, B. (1988). The Ecology of Kin Recognition. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 19, pp. 543-71. links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0066-4162(1988)19%3C543%3ATEOKR%3E2.0.CO%3B2-EPfennig, D. W. (1997). Kinship and Cannibalism. BioScience, Vol. 47, No. 10, AIBS: The First 50 Years, pp. 667-75. links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0006-3568(199711)47%3A10%3C667%3AKAC%3E2.0.CO%3B2-ULabv, J. B., Huck, U. W., Elwood, R. W., Brooks, R. J. (1985). Current Problems in the Study of Infanticidal Behavior of Rodents. The Quarterly Review of Biology 60, pp. 1-20. links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0033-5770(198503)60%3A1%3C1%3ACPITSO%3E2.0.CO%3B2-9Elwood, R. W., Ostermeyer, M.C. (2004). Discrimination between Conspecific and Allospecific Infants by Male Gerbils and mice before and after Experience of Their Own Young. Developmental Psychobiology 19, pp. 327-34. www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/abstract/109704721/ABSTRACTTuomi, J., Agrell, J. and Mappes, T. (1997). On the evolutionary stability of female infanticide. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 40, pp. 227-33. www.springerlink.com/content/wy4n22j337ux4c3e/Elwood, R. W. (1981). Postparturitional reestablishment of pup cannibalism in female gerbils. Developmental Psychobiology 14, pp. 209-212. Saltzman, W., Ahmed, S., Fahimi, A., Wittwer, D. J., Wegner, F. H. (2006). Social suppression of female reproductive maturation and infanticidal behavior in cooperatively breeding Mongolian gerbils. Hormones and Behavior 49, pp. 527–37. www.biology.ucr.edu/people/faculty/Saltzmanpubs/Saltzman_etal_2006_HB.pdf
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Post by Shooting Star on Oct 11, 2007 10:32:49 GMT -8
Cheal, M. & Foley, K. (1985). Developmental and experiential influences on ontogeny: The gerbil (Meriones unguiculatus) as a model. Journal of Comparative Psychology 99, 289–305. Porter, R.H. (1988). The ontogeny of sibling recognition in rodents: Superfamily muroidea. Behavior Genetics 18, 483-494. www.springerlink.com/content/w562715002028836/Wuensch, K.L. (1985). Effects of Early Paternal Presence upon Nonhuman Offsprings' Development. American Zoologist 25, 911-923. icb.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/25/3/911Clark, M.M. & Galef, B.G. (1980). Effects of Rearing Environment on Adrenal Weights, Sexual Development, and Behavior in Gerbils: An Examination of Richter’s Domestication Hypothesis. Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology 94, 857-863. sociallearning.info/home/pdf/comp%20psych%2094(5),857-863.pdf Dewsbury, D.A. (1985). Paternal Behavior in Rodents. American Zoologist 25, 841-852. icb.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/25/3/841Yumiko, U. & Kazuya, T. (2001). The effects of presence of the father on the physical, emotional and social developments of offspring in the Mongolian gerbil (Meriones unguiculatus). Japanese Journal of Animal Psychology 51, 19-27. sciencelinks.jp/j-east/article/200120/000020012001A0822207.php** Article is unfortunately in Japanese, but the abstract linked above is in English.
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Post by sandy on Oct 23, 2007 11:26:20 GMT -8
On Infanticide in Rodents, a chapter online by Ebensperger and Blumstein, UCLA. Quite long. www.eeb.ucla.edu/Faculty/Blumstein/pdf%20reprints/Ebensperger&Blumstein_2007-Ch23.pdfA little blurb about hormone levels and paternal behaviour in mice: amos.indiana.edu/library/scripts/progesterone.htmlHere is the article cited by Ed and Shootingstar, abstract as follows: The effects of food deprivation, aggression, and isolation on infanticide in the male Mongolian gerbilRobert W. Elwood *, Malcolm C. Ostermeyer Department of Zoology, The Queen's University of Belfast, Belfast *Correspondence to Robert W. Elwood, Department of Zoology, The Queen's University of Belfast, Belfast, N. Ireland BT7 INN Funded by: Science and Engineering Research Council for this research Abstract Male Mongolian gerbils show an increase in infanticide and pup-cannibalism after 24-hr food deprivation, suggesting that food acquisition is a function of this activity. Dominant animals show high levels of infanticide, but subordinate animals are inhibited from this activity. An increase in infanticide is seen when males from a single sex group are isolated; this increase resembles that observed when a male is separated from his pregnant mate [Elwood, 1980]. These results suggest a mechanism whereby males are normally brought into a noninfanticidal state during cohabitation with their pregnant mates owing to subordination by the latter. In this manner males are able to utilize strange pups as food but avoid harming their own offspring. Received: 18 July 1983; Accepted: 14 March 1984 www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/abstract/112414795/ABSTRACTI find it interesting that it is cohabitation with the pregnant female and adequate feeding that prevents infanticide, it doesn't seem to be genetic. Hmm. Here's one that shows that males can be a nuisance rather than a help during birth: ;D Parental care and sexual interactions in Mongolian gerbils (Meriones unguiculatus) during the postpartum estrusEmerson J. Prates and Rogerio F. GuerraCorresponding Author Contact Information, E-mail The Corresponding Author Laboratório de Psicologia Experimental, Depto. Psicologia, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Campus Universitário, 88040-900 Florianópolis, SC, Brazil Received 14 February 2005; revised 27 April 2005. Available online 5 July 2005. Abstract The behavior of male and female Mongolian gerbils was continuously video-recorded from 24 h before the parturition to the end of postpartum estrus. We noted that the mean interval between the delivery of the last pup and the first mounting was 13 h and 32 min. Over the whole duration of the postpartum estrus (7 h and 41 ± 57 min), females spent significantly more time in crouching over, pup licking, nest building and “digging” activities, and were more recipient of allogrooming than males. Maternal pup retrievals were not very frequent (14.0 ± 5.6 episodes), but males never retrieved pups nor exhibited a full sequence of nest building activity. Males spent a longer mean time in bodily interactions with females, as compared to the time they spent with pups, and engaged in intense copulatory activity (592.8 ± 40.5 mounts or 1 episode per 46.7 s); even during the delivery process males attempted to force copulation, but females rejected mounting in all cases. We conclude that females exhibited higher levels of parental care than males, and our findings suggest that males compete with pups in attracting the female's attention, since they actively disrupt maternal care or persistently persecute the female in order to copulate. www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6T2J-4GJK88S-1&_user=10&_coverDate=09%2F30%2F2005&_rdoc=1&_fmt=&_orig=search&_sort=d&view=c&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=8942e62558ab7d89a77a2ed30b1bbdb7Here's one that shows how inbred captive-bred gerbils are, but that there are slight differences between American and European gerbils, and that kinship studies should be conducted only in wild populations. Whole article. Low Microsatellite Variation in Laboratory GerbilsK. Neumann, S. Maak, I. W. Stuermer, G. von Lengerken, and R. Gattermann jhered.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/92/1/71more to come...
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Post by sandy on Oct 23, 2007 13:30:39 GMT -8
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