Background Sciuromorpha (squirrels and close relatives) are diverse in terms of body size
and locomotor behavior. Individual species are specialized to perform climbing, gliding or …

The evolution and diversification of animal reproductive modes have been pivotal questions
in behavioural ecology. Amphibians present the highest diversity of reproductive modes …

Abstract Ultraconserved Elements (UCEs) have been useful to resolve challenging
phylogenies of non-model clades, unpuzzling long-conflicted relationships in key branches …

Aplodontia rufa (mountain beaver) is the only extant member of the Aplodontidae. The fossil
record indicates that this family displayed greater taxonomic and ecological diversity in the …

Tree squirrels (Sciurinae, Sciurini) represent a diverse radiation that successfully colonized
Europe, Asia and the Americas during the Miocene-Pliocene, but information on their …

Little is known about the early evolution of the brain in rodents. We report on nine new virtual
endocasts for one of the most primitive family of rodents, Ischyromyidae, based on five …

Sciuromorph rodents are a monophyletic group comprising about 300 species with a body
mass range spanning three orders of magnitude and various locomotor behaviors that we …

In several groups of mammals, adaptation to differing functional demands is reflected in long
bone cross‐sectional properties (CSP), which relate to the resistance to compression and to …

Anatomical and biological specializations have been studied extensively in fossorial
rodents, especially in subterranean species, such as mole‐rats or pocket‐gophers. Sciurids …

The goal of this chapter is to summarize work published on virtual endocasts of extant and
extinct rodents and provide a framework to answer outstanding questions. Virtual endocasts …