Publications
| agonistic character displacement in social cognition of advertisement signals. | interspecific aggression between sibling species may enhance discrimination of competitors when recognition errors are costly, but proximate mechanisms mediating increased discriminative ability are unclear. we studied behavioral and neural mechanisms underlying responses to conspecific and heterospecific vocalizations in alston's singing mouse (scotinomys teguina), a species in which males sing to repel rivals. we performed playback experiments using males in allopatry and sympatry with a domin ... | 2017 | 27757700 |
| diverse beta- and gammaherpesviruses in neotropical rodents from costa rica. | neotropical wild rodents from costa rica were analyzed for the presence of herpesviruses (order herpesvirales, family herpesviridae). using a broadly generic pcr, herpesvirus sequences were detected in 5% (8/160) of liver and heart samples: seven putative gammaherpesviruses in samples from talamancan oryzomys (nephelomys devius), sprightly colilargo (oligoryzomys vegetus), mexican deer mouse (peromyscus nudipes), and chiriqui harvest mouse (reithrodontomys creper) and one putative betaherpesviru ... | 2019 | 30694725 |