Pitymys

Rhodes and Richmond (1982) reached the same conclusion regarding free-ranging Pine Voles (Pitymys pinetorum), and Getz (1968) found that Redbacked Voles (Myodes gapperi) could persist for at least 2 wk on a diet of mushrooms without losing weight and with no access to free water.

Water metabolism in the Pine Vole Pitymys pinetorum.

Source Species n This study Arborimus longicaudus 7 Winkleman and Getz 1962 Meriones unguiculatus 4 Getz 1963 Microtus ochrogaster 27 Church 1966 Microtus californicus 47 Getz 1963 Microtus pennsylvanicus 22 Getz 1968 Clethrionomys gapperi 6 McManus 1974 Clethrionomys gapperi 5 Rhodes and Richmond 1981 Pitymys pinetorutn (2) 10 Rhodes and Richmond 1981 Pitymys pinetortim (3) 10 Free water consumption Source ml/g/d ml/d This study 0.016 [+ or -] 0.01 0.5 Winkleman and Getz 1962 0.039 nd Getz 1963 0.206 6.6 Church 1966 0.246 [+ or -] 0.66 nd Getz 1963 0.282 8.2 Getz 1968 0.315 7.23 McManus 1974 0.679 [+ or -] 0.536 (1) nd Rhodes and Richmond 1981 0.71 14.8 Rhodes and Richmond 1981 0.77 15.5 (1) Mean is the grand mean of 5 groups that were tested at different ambient temperatures.

Several species of microtine rodents (Microtus, Pitymys, Synaptomys, and Ondatra) are members of a variety of central Texas fossil and historical sites spanning nearly the entire 30,000-year range considered here.

Hangers-on, perhaps lingering in small refugia of suitable habitat in central Texas until drier, warmer conditions much like those of the present day, included Onychomys leucogaster, Pitymys pinetorum, and Blarina brevicauda.

Additionally, Tula virus RNA was amplified from lung tissues of a European pine vole (Pitymys subterraneus) in Serbia (10).

Genetic analysis of Tula hantaviral sequences amplified from tissues of Pitymys subterraneus captured in the Cacak region of Serbia-Yugoslavia.