Browsing by Subject "Rodentia"
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(Texas A&M University, 2006-10-30)Microsatellites are repetitive DNA characterized by tandem repeats of short motifs (2 â 5 bp). High mutation rates make them ideal for population level studies. Microsatellite allele genesis is generally attributed ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2006-04-12)This dissertation has two major sections. In Chapter II, complete mitochondrial (mt DNA) genome sequences were used to construct a hypothesis for affinities of most major lineages of rodents that arose quickly in the Eocene ...
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(2011-08-04)A new fossil vertebrate fauna consisting of fish, snake, and small mammalian remains was discovered near McKinney Falls State Park in Austin, Texas. Identification and analysis of the species in the cave deposit reveals ...
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(2012-10-19)The Baird’s pocket gopher (Geomys breviceps) is a solitary, fossorial rodent found throughout areas of Texas, Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Louisiana. Research focusing on the population genetics of pocket gophers and other ...
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(1993)The order Rodentia contains two suborders, Hystricognathi and Sciurognathi, each of which has representatives in the Old and New Worlds. Taxa have traditionally been separated into these two suborders based upon jaw ...
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Taxonomic and Ecological Functional Analysis of Modern and Fossil Southern African Rodent Postcrania (2019-11-14)Rodent remains found in many southern African Plio-Pleistocene fossil-bearing deposits are commonly used to reconstruct paleoenvironments using a taxonomic framework. In these studies, craniodental remains are the primary ...