Publications

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Publication list Carsten Schradin available here (including publications from other projects)

Science

• Schradin, C., Lindholm, A.K., Johannesen, J., Schoepf, I., Yuen, C.H., König, B. & Pillay, N. 2012. Social flexibility and social evolution in mammals: a case study of the African striped mouse (Rhabdomys pumilio). Molecular Ecology 21: 541-553.
• Schradin, C .& Lindholm, A.K. 2011. Relative fitness of alternative male reproductive tactics in a mammal varies between years. Journal of Animal Ecology 80, 908-917.
• Solmsen, N., Johannesen, J. & Schradin C., 2011. Highly asymmetric finescale genetic structure between sexes of African striped mice indicate alternative male dispersal tactics Molecular Ecology 20: 1624-1634.

• Schradin, C., Schneider, C. & Lindholm, A.K. 2010. The nasty neighbor in the striped mouse (Rhabdomys pumilio) steals paternity and elicits aggression. Frontiers in Zoology 7:19.

• Scantlebury, M., Bennett, N., Pillay, N. & Schradin, C. 2010. Basking is affected by season and influences oxygen consumption in desert-living striped mice. Journal of Zoology. 281: 132-139.

• Wilson, L.A.B., Schradin, C., Mitgutsch, C., Galliari, F.C., Trillmich, F., Andrea Mess, A., Sánchez-Villagra, M.R. accept. Skeletogenesis in the African striped mouse (Rhabdomys pumilio) and a study of sequence heterochrony in rodent evolution. Organisms Diversity and Evolution.

• Schradin, C., König, B. & Pillay, N. 2010. Reproductive competition favours solitary living while ecological constraints impose group-living in African striped mice. Journal of Animal Ecology. 73: 515-521.
• Schradin, C., Schmohl, G., Rödel, H. G., Schoepf, I., Treffler, S. M., Brenner, J., Bleeker, M., Schubert, M., König, B. & Pillay, N. Female home range size is regulated by resource distribution and intraspecific competition: a long-term field study. Animal Behaviour 79: 195-203.
  
• Schradin, C., Schneider, C., Yuen, C.H. (2009). Age at puberty in male African striped mice: the impact of food, population density and the presence of the father. Functional Ecology 23:1004-1013.
• Schradin, C., Kinahan, A.A., Pillay, N. (2009). Cooperative breeding in groups of synchroneously mating females and evolution of large testes to avoid sperm depletion in African striped mice. Biology of Reproduction 81: 111-117.
• Schubert, M., Pillay, N. & Schradin, C. (2009). Parental and alloparental care in a polygynous mammal. Journal of Mammalogy90: 724-731.
• Schradin, C. , Scantlebury, M., Pillay, N. & König, B. (2009). Testosterone levels in dominant sociable males are lower than in solitary roamers: physiological differences between three male reproductive tactics in a sociably flexible mammal. American Naturalist 173: 376-388.
• Schradin, C. (2008). Seasonal changes in testosterone and corticosterone levels in four social categories of a desert dwelling sociable rodent. Hormones and Behavior 53: 573-579.

• Schradin, C. (2008). "Differences in prolactin levels between three alternative male reproductive tactics in striped mice (Rhabdomys pumilio)." Proc R Soc B 275: 1047-1052.

• Schradin, C. 2007. Comments to K.E. Wynne-Edwards & M.E. Timonin. Paternal care in rodents: Weakening support for hormonal regulation of the transition to behavioral fatherhood in rodent animal models of biparental care. Horm & Behav 52: 114-121. Hormones and Behavior 52: 557-559.

• Schradin C, Krackow S, Schubert M, Keller C, Schradin B, Pillay N. 2007. Regulation of activity in desert-living striped mice: The importance of basking Ethology 113:606-614
• Schradin C. 2006. Information transfer about food locations is not a benefit of group living in the solitary foraging striped mouse (Rhabdomys pumilio). J Ethol
• Schradin C, 2006. Whole day follows of the striped mouse. J Ethol 24:37-43.

• Schradin C, Pillay N, 2006. Female striped mice (Rhabdomys pumilio) change their home ranges in response to seasonal variation in food availability. Behav Eco. 17: 452-458.

• Schradin C, Schubert M, Pillay N, 2006. Winter huddling groups in the striped mouse. Can J Zool. 84, 693-698.

• Scantlebury M, Bennett NC, Speakman JR, Pillay N, Schradin C 2006. Huddling in groups leads to daily energy savings in free-living African four-striped grass mice, Rhabdomys pumilio. Funct Ecol 20:166-173

• Schradin C, 2005. When to live alone and when to live in groups: ecological determinants of sociality in the African striped mouse (Rhabdomys pumilio, Sparrman, 1784). Belgian Journal of Zoolog 135: 77-82.
• Schradin, C. 2005. Nest-site competition in two diurnal rodents from the Succulent Karoo of South Africa. Journal of Mammalogy 86: 757-762
• Schradin C, Pillay N, 2005. Demography of the striped mouse (Rhabdomys pumilio) in the succulent karoo. Mammalian Biology 70: 84-92.

• Schradin C, Pillay N, 2005. The influence of the father on offspring development in the striped mouse. Behavioral Ecology. 16:450-455.
• Schradin C, Pillay N, 2005. Intraspecific variation in the spatial and social organization of the African striped mouse. Journal of Mammalogy 86: 99-107.
• Schradin C, 2004. Territorial defense in a group living solitary forager: who, where against whom? Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 55:439-446.
• Schradin C, Pillay N, 2004a. Prolactin levels in paternal striped mouse (Rhabdomys pumilio) fathers. Physiology and Behavior 81:43-50.
• Schradin C, Pillay N, 2004b. The striped mouse (Rhabdomys pumilio) from the succulent karoo of South Africa: A territorial group living solitary forager with communal breeding and helpers at the nest. Journal of Comparative Psychology 118:37-47.
• Schradin C, Pillay N, 2003. Paternal care in the social and diurnal striped mouse (Rhabdomys pumilio): laboratory and field evidence. Journal of Comparative Psychology 117:317-324.

Theses

• Wastavino, M. 2010. Differences in activity budgets and social behaviours of three male alternative reproductive tactics in the African striped mouse (Rhabdomys pumilio). MSc thesis, University of Basel, Switzerland.

• Lehmann, D. 2009. Does nest sharing in striped mice (Rhabdomys pumilio) increase vigilance towards nocturnal predators?. Unpublished MCs thesis, University of Zurich, Switzerland.
• Schmohl, G. 2008. Factors affecting home range sizes of female striped mice (Rhabdomys pumilio). Unpublished MCs thesis, University of Zurich, Switzerland.
• Keller, C. 2005. Do small mammals affect plant diversity? Field studies in Namaqualand, South Africa, a biodiversity-hotspot. Unpublished Diploma thesis, University of Münster, Germany.
• Schuber, M. 2005. Female Reproductive Strategies in the Striped Mouse ( Rhabdomys pumilio ): Communal versus Singular Breeders. Diploma thesis, University of Bayreuth , Germany ."
• Schneider, C. 2005. Male reproductive strategies in the South African striped mouse ( Rhabdomys pumilio). Unpublished Diploma thesis, University of Münster, Germany.
  

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