Production of ultrasonic vocalizations by Peromyscus mice in the wild 英文参考文献.docVIP

Frontiers in Zoology BioMedCentral Research Open Access Production of ultrasonic vocalizations by Peromyscus mice in the wild Matina C Kalcounis-Rueppell*?1, Jackie D Metheny1 and Maarten J Vonhof?2 Address: 1Department of Biology, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 1000 Spring Garden Street, Greensboro, North Carolina, USA and 2Department of Biological Sciences, Western Michigan University, 1903 W. Michigan Avenue, Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA Email: Matina C Kalcounis-Rueppell* - matina_kalcounis@; Jackie D Metheny - jdmethen@; Maarten J Vonhof - maarten.vonhof@ * Corresponding author ?Equal contributors Published: 28 February 2006 Received: 14 February 2006 Accepted: 28 February 2006 Frontiers in Zoology 2006, 3:3 doi:10.1186/1742-9994-3-3 This article is available from: /content/3/1/3 ? 2006 Kalcounis-Rueppell et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background: There has been considerable research on rodent ultrasound in the laboratory and these sounds have been well quantified and characterized. Despite the value of research on ultrasound produced by mice in the lab, it is unclear if, and when, these sounds are produced in the wild, and how they function in natural habitats. Results: We have made the first recordings of ultrasonic vocalizations produced by two free-living species of mice in the genus Peromyscus (P. californicus and P. boylii) on long term study grids in California. Over 6 nights, we recorded 65 unique ultrasonic vocalization phrases from Peromyscus. The ultrasonic vocalizations we recorded represent 7 different motifs. Within each motif, there was considerable variation in the acoustic characteristics suggesting individual and contextu