Plains Vizcachas: Biology and Evolution of a Peculiar Neotropical Caviomorph Rodent

ISBN-13: 9783031494864 / Angielski

Luciano L. Rasia; Claudio G. Barbeito; Francisco Acuña

Spis treści

Part I: Evolutionary History

• Chapter 1: Two hundred years of studies on plains vizcachas

Claudio G. Barbeito, Francisco Acuña, Mirta A. Flamini, Luciano L. Rasia

• Chapter 2: Pan-Chinchillidae, a once diverse clade

Luciano L. Rasia

• Chapter 3: The fossil record of Lagostomus: a 10 million years story

Luciano L. Rasia

• Chapter 4: Morphological variation in the cranium of Lagostomus maximus along its geographic distribution

Luciano L. Rasia, Marcos D. Ercoli, Alicia Álvarez

• Chapter 5: Genetic variation across Lagostomus maximus' geographical distribution in Argentina

María C. Gariboldi, Pablo I. F. Inserra, Juan I. Túnez, Alfredo D. Vitullo

• Chapter 6: The chancy history of a supposedly vanished South American rodent, Lagostomus crassus, with remarks on recent extinctions in caviomorphs

Patricia Hadler, Carlos A. Galliari, Ulyses F. J. Pardiñas

• Chapter 7: Use of the vizcacha (Lagostomus maximus) by indigenous societies in the Pampas ecoregion (Argentina)

Agustina Massigoge, Juan M. Rodríguez, María C. Álvarez, María A. Gutiérrez, Cristian A. Kaufmann 

• Chapter 8: From pest to vulnerable species: combining ecological and behavioural knowledge for the conservation and management of Lagostomus maximus

Cecilia B. Contarde, Diego A. Guzmán

• Chapter 9: Plains vizcacha endoparasites: an exploration of diversity, health and ecology

Victoria Canova, María del Rosario Robles, Agustín M. Abba, Graciela T. Navone 

Part II: Morphology, Development and Physiology

• Chapter 10: Skull ontogeny and sexual dimorphism

Luciano L. Rasia

• Chapter 11: Morphophysiological characteristics of the female reproductive system

Francisco Acuña, Mirta A. Flamini, Claudio G. Barbeito, Enrique L. Portiansky

• Chapter 12: Poly-implantation and embryonic death

Francisco Acuña, Enrique L. Portiansky, María A. Miglino, Mirta A. Flamini, Claudio G. Barbeito

• Chapter 13: Placentation and placenta

Claudio G. Barbeito, Francisco Acuña, Enrique L. Portiansky, María A. Miglino, Mirta A. Flamini

• Chapter 14: Neuroanatomy and brain histological atlas of the South American plains vizcacha

Alejandro R. Schmidt, Alfredo D. Vitullo, Verónica B. Dorfman

• Chapter 15: Post-implantation embryo development in the South American plains vizcacha, Lagostomus maximus (Rodentia, Caviomorpha)

Noelia P. Leopardo, Pablo I. F. Inserra, Alfredo D. Vitullo

• Chapter 16: Reproductive neuroendocrinology of the female South American plains vizcacha, Lagostomus maximus

Verónica B. Dorfman, Pablo I. F. Inserra, Alfredo D. Vitullo, Julia Halperin

• Chapter 17: Synchronization of the pineal and pituitary morphophysiology by photoperiodic environmental signals

Verónica P. Filippa, Fabricio I. Busolini, Fabian H. Mohamed

• Chapter 18: Histological changes in the male reproductive system during the annual reproductive cycle

Albana A. M. Cruceño, Eduardo M. Chaves, Claudia I. Aguilera Merlo, Fabian H. Mohamed

• Chapter 19: Histological and histochemical characteristics of the intestinal tract: Morpho-functional specializations to herbivory

María F. Tano de la Hoz, Stefanía Cohen, Mirta A. Flamini, Alcira O. Díaz

O autorze

Luciano Luis Rasia is a PhD in Natural Sciences. He is Assistant Researcher of CONICET (National Scientific and Technical Research Council) since 2019, working at the Vertebrate Paleontology Division of the Museo de La Plata, Argentina. He is a vertebrate paleontologist specialized in caviomorph rodents. In his PhD dissertation he studied the extinct chinchillids of Argentina. Now he is working mainly with extinct chinchillioids, with focus in the evolution, paleoecology, paleobiogeography and biostratigraphy of the group. He has collaborated in the study of many Cenozoic faunas of Argentina. He has been teaching Compared Anatomy at the Faculty of Natural Sciences (FCNYM - UNLP) since 2011.

Claudio Gustavo Barbeito is a PhD in Veterinary Sciences. He is Principal Researcher of CONICET (National Scientific and Technical Research Council), and his research focuses on the placenta and comparative placentation at the Laboratory of Histology and Descriptive, Experimental and Comparative Embryology, Faculty of Veterinary Sciences, National University of La Plata (FCV-UNLP). He is a Full Professor in Histology, Cellular Biology, Developmental Biology and General Pathology at FCV-UNLP.

Francisco Acuña is a PhD in Veterinary Sciences. He is Assistant Researcher of CONICET (National Scientific and Technical Research Council), and his research focuses on reproductive and developmental biology at the Laboratory of Histology and Descriptive, Experimental and Comparative Embryology, Faculty of Veterinary Sciences, National University of La Plata (FCV-UNLP). He teaches Histology, Cellular Biology, Developmental Biology, and General Pathology at FCV-UNLP.

Blurb

The plains vizcacha (Lagostomus maximus) is a remarkable rodent of the Neotropic given several peculiar aspects of its biology, some of them quite unique among rodents or even among mammals. This book gathers specialists studying plains vizcachas from very different approaches, including paleontology, systematics, morphology, physiology, development and conservation. It is divided in two Parts, 1) Evolutionary History, and 2) Morphology, Development and Physiology. It will surely be a required reading for any researcher working with caviomorph rodents, mastozoology of the Neotropics or internal anatomy and physiology of mammals.