James L. Patton Ulyses F. J. Pardinas Guillermo D'Elia
The second installment in a planned three-volume series, this book provides the first substantive review of South American rodents published in over fifty years. Increases in the reach of field research and the variety of field survey methods, the introduction of bioinformatics, and the explosion of molecular-based genetic methodologies have all contributed to the revision of many phylogenetic relationships and to a doubling of the recognized diversity of South American rodents. The largest and most diverse mammalian order on Earthand an increasingly threatened oneRodentia is also of great...
The second installment in a planned three-volume series, this book provides the first substantive review of South American rodents published in over f...