Other rodents Flashcards
Ictodomys tridecemlineatus
13-lined ground squirrel
Spermophilus beecheyi
California Ground Squirrel
Geomys breviceps
Baird’s Pocket Gopher
Marmota monax
groundhog, whistle-pig, chuck
Cynomys ludovicianus
black tailed prairie dog
what are the common uses for ground squirrels
hibernation
hepatitis B-
hepatocellular carcinoma (ground squirrel hepatitis virus)
Urocitellus, Ictodomys, Spermophilus
what are the most common research uses for prairie dogs
billiary physiology,pathology of gallstone formation
can spread monkey pox and plague
develop elodontomas
Cynomys
what species of rodent is carnivorous?
grasshopper mice
(Onychomys)
Heterocephalus glaber
naked mole rat
what are the principle uses of the vole?
environmental surveys
genetic and neurobiologic mechanisms governing complex social behavior
which rodents have the young attach to the mothers teat
Neotoma (pack rat/wood rat)
Mystromys albicaudatus (white tailed rat)
Microtus pennsylvanicus
meadow vole
Thomomys talpoides
Northern Pocket Gopher
Mystromys albicaudatus
white tailed rat
Spermophilus elegans
Thomomys mazama
Western Pocket Gopher
Peromyscus maniculatus
North American Deer Mouse
which species of rodents are monoestrous
Urocitellus, Ictodomys, Spermophilus
Cynomys
Geomys,Thomomys
Marmota
(squirrels, prairie dogs, pocket gophers, groundhog)
Neotoma floridana
Eastern or Allegheny wood rat
Microtus oeconomus
root vole
Meriones unguiculatus
mongolian gerbil
what are the principle uses of the gerbil?
Meriones unguiculatus
cerebral infarction, epilepsy, filarial nematodes, periodontitis
which species require a dust bath?
Kangaroo rat (Dipodomys)
Grasshopper mouse (Onchomys)
Gerbil (Meriones)
Degu (Octodon)