Rodent Publications
Fadda Carlo, Ricardo Castiglia, Paolo Colangelo, Marco Corti, Robert Machangu, Rhodes Makundi, Alessandra Scanzani, Protas Tesha, Walter Verheyen, and Ernesto Cappana (2001). The rodent fauna of Tanzania: a cytotaxonomic report from the Maasai Steppe. Rend Mat. Acc. Lincei.- Zoologia 12: 29-49.
Makundi R.H. and Massawe, A.W. (2003). Recent advances in studies of the ecology of Mastomys natalensis (Smith, 1834) (Rodentia: Muridae) in Tanzania, East Africa. pp 242 – 245. In: G. R. Singleton, L. A. Hinds, C. J. Krebs & D. M. Spratt (eds). Rats, Mice and People: Rodent Biology and Management. Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research, Canberra, 564 p. ISBN 186320 356 7.
Mulungu, Loth S., Makundi, Rhodes H. and Leirs, Herwig. (2003). Robustness of techniques for estimating rat damage and yield loss in maize fields. pp 224 –228. In: Singleton, G.R. Hinds, L.A., Krebs, C.J. and Spratt, D.M. (Eds.). Rats, Mice and People: Rodent Biology and Management., Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research, Canberra, 564 p. ISBN 186320 356 7.
Massawe, A. W., Leirs, H., Rwamugira, W. P. & Makundi, R. H. (2003). Effect
of land preparation methods on spatial distribution of rodents in crop fields.
pp 229-232. In: G. R. Singleton, L. A. Hinds, C. J. Krebs & D. M. Spratt
(Eds)., Rats, Mice and People: Rodent Biology and Management. Australian Centre
for International Agricultural Research, Canberra, 564 p. ISBN 186320 356 7.
Mulungu, L. S., Makundi, R. H., Leirs, H., Massawe, A. W., Vibe-Petersen, S. & Stenseth,
N. C. (2003). The rodent-density-damage function in maize fields at an early
growth stage. pp. 301 – 303. In: G. R. Singleton, L. A. Hinds, C. J.
Krebs & D. M. Spratt (eds). Rats, Mice and People: Rodent Biology and Management.
Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research, Canberra, 564 p.
ISBN 186320 356 7.
Ngowo, V., Lodal, J., Mulungu, L. S., Makundi, R. H., Massawe, A. W. & Leirs, H. (2003) Evaluation of thiram and cinnamamide as potential repellents against maize-seed depredation by the multimammate rat, Mastomys natalensis, in Tanzania. Pp 260 – 261.In: G. R. Singleton, L. A. Hinds, C. J. Krebs & D. M. Spratt (Eds). Rats, Mice and People: Rodent Biology and Management. Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research, Canberra, 564 p. ISBN 186320 356 7.
Makundi, R.H., B.S. Kilonzo and A. W. Massawe (2003). Interaction between rodent species in agro-forestry habitats in the western Usambara mountains, northeast Tanzania, and its potential for plague transmission to humans. Pp 20-24. In: G. R. Singleton, L. A. Hinds, C. J. Krebs & D. M. Spratt (Eds). Rats, Mice and People. Rodent Biology and Management. Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research, Canberra, 564 p. ISBN 186320 356 7.
Castiglia, R., Corti, M., Colangelo, P., Annesi, F., Cataglia, E., Verheyen, W., Sichilima, A. and Makundi, R. (2003). Chromosomal and molecular characterization of Aethomys kaiseri from Zambia and Aethomys chrysophilus from Tanzania (Rodentia: Muridae). Hereditas 139: 81 – 89
Stenseth, N.C., Leirs, H., Skonhoft, A., Davis, S., Pech, R., Andresassen, H.P. Singleton, G., Lima, M., Machangu, R.M., Makundi,R.H., Zhang, Z., Brown, P., Shi, D. and Wan, X. (2003). Mice and Rats: dynamics and bio-economics of agricultural rodent pests. Frontiers in Ecology and Environment 1(7). 367 - 375
Colangelo Paolo, Corti Marco, Verheyen Erick, Flavia Annesi, Oguge Nicholas,
Makundi
Rhodes and Verheyen Walter. (2005). Mitochondrial phylogeny reveals differential
modes of chromosomal evolution in the genus Tatera (Rodentia: Gerbellinae)
in Africa. Molecular Phylogentics and Evolution. 56: 556 - 568.
Makundi, R.H., Massawe, A.W., Mulungu L.S. (2005). Rodent population fluctuations in three ecologically distinct locations in north-east, central and south-west Tanzania. Belgian Journal of Zoology 135. (Supplement): 159-165
Makundi, R.H., Bekele, A., Leirs, H., Massawe, A.W., Rwamugira, W. and Mulungu,
L.S. (2005). Farmer’s perceptions of rodents as crop pests: Knowledge,
attitudes, and practices in rodent pest management in Tanzania and Ethiopia.
Belgian Journal of Zoology (Supplement). 135: 153-157.
Corti, M., Castiglia, R., Colangelo, P., Capanna, E., Beolchini, F., Bekele, A., Oguge, N., Makundi, R.H., Sichilima, A., and Leirs, H. (2005). Cytogenetics of rodent species from Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania and Zambia. Belgian Journal of Zoology (Supplement). 135:197-216.
Massawe, A.W., Rwamugira, W., Leirs, H., Makundi, R.H. and Mulungu, L.S. (2005).
Influence of land preparation methods and vegetation cover on population abundance
of Mastomys natalensis in Morogoro, Tanzania. Belgian Journal of Zoology
(Supplement). 135: 187-190.
Mulungu, L.S., Makundi, R.H., Leirs, H., Massawe, A.W., Machang’u, R.S.
and
Ngowo, V.( 2005). Spatial patterns and distribution of rodent damage in maize
fields in Tanzania. Belgian Journal of Zoology (Supplement). 135: 183- 185.
Ngowo, V., Mulungu, L.S., Lodal, J., Makundi, R.H., Leirs, H., and Massawe, A.W. (2005). Evaluation of thiram and cinnamamide for protection of seeds against multimammate rats, Mastomys natalensis, in maize fields in Tanzania. Belgian Journal of Zoology (Supplement). 135: 179 – 181.
Odhiambo, R. Makundi, R.H., Leirs, H. and Verhagen, R. (2005). Community structure and seasonal abundance of rodents of maize farms in south-western Tanzania Belgian Journal of Zoology (Supplement). 135: 113-118.
Castiglia, R., Bekele, A., Makundi, R.H., Oguge, N., Corti, M. (2006). Chromosomal diversity in the genus Arvicanthis from the Horn and East Africa. A taxonomical and phylogenetic evaluation. Journal of Zoological Systematics 44 (3): 223 - 235.
Davis, S., Makundi, R.H. Machangu, R.S. and Leirs, H. (2006). Demographic and spatio-temporal variation in human plague at a persistent focus in Tanzania. Acta Tropica. 100: 133-1411.
Aude Lalis, Emilie Lecompte, Raphaël Cornette, Sybille Moulin, Robert S. Machangu, Rhodes Makundi, Vladimir M. Aniskine, Christiane Denys (2006). Polymorphism of the age population structure of two wild Mastomys natalensis (Rodentia: Muridae) Tanzanian habitat samples: a multicriteria comparison. Mammalia 70(3/4): 293-299.
Makundi, R.H., Massawe, A.W., and Mulungu, L.S. (2006). Breeding seasonality and population dynamics of three rodent species in the Magamba Forest Reserve in the Western Usambara Mountains, north-east Tanzania. African Journal of Ecology 45: 17-21.
Castiglia Riccardo, Rhodes Makundi and Marco Corti. (2007). The origin of unusual
sex chromosome constitution in Acomys sp. (Rodentia: Muridae) from Tanzania.
Genetica 131(2): 201-207.
Massawe, A.W., Rwamugira, W., Leirs, H., Makundi, R.H. and Mulungu, L.S. (2007). Do farming practices influence population dynamics of rodents? A case study of the multi-mammate field rats, Mastomys natalensis, in Tanzania. African Journal of Ecology 45(3): 293-301.
Anne LAUDISOIT, Herwig LEIRS, Rhodes H. MAKUNDI, Stefan Van Dongen, Stephen Davis, Simon Neerinckx, Jozef Deckers and Roland LIBOIS (2007). Plague and the human flea, Tanzania. Emerging Infectious Diseases 13(5):687-693.
Massawe A.W., Mrosso, F. P., Makundi R.H. and L.S. Mulungu. (2007). Breeding patterns of Arvicanthis neumanni in central Tanzania. African Journal of Ecology 46, 320–324
Mulungu, Loth S., Rhodes H. Makundi, Apia W. Massawe and Herwig, Leirs. (2007). Relationship between sampling intensity and precision for estimating damage to maize caused by rodents. Integrative Zoology 2: 131-135.
Makundi, R.H., Massawe, A.W., Mulungu, L.S. (2007). Reproduction and population dynamics of Mastomys natalensis in agricultural landscape in the western Usambara Mountains, Tanzania. Integrative Zoology 2(4): 233-238.
Massawe, Apia W., Winnie Rwamugira, Herwig Leirs, Rhodes H. Makundi, Loth
Mulungu, V. Ngowo and Robert Machangu. (2008). Soil type may limit population
abundance of rodents in crop fields: case study of Mastomys natalensis Smith
1834 in Tanzania. Integrative Zoology 3: 27-30.
ODHIAMBO,R.O., R.H.MAKUNDI, H.LEIRS & R.VERHAGEN. (2008). Dietary selection
in
Mastomys natalensis (Rodentia: Muridae) in the maize agro-ecosystems of central
and south-western Tanzania. Mammalia. 72: 169-177.
ODHIAMBO,R.O., R.H. MAKUNDI, H.LEIRS & R.VERHAGEN. (2008). Demography, reproductive biology and diet of the bushveld gerbil Tatera leucogaster (Rodentia: Gerbillinae) in the Lake Rukwa valley, south-western Tanzania. Integrative Zoology 3: 31-37.
Mulungu Loth S., Makundi Rhodes H., Massawe Apia W., Machangu Robert, S. and
Mbije Nsajigwa E. 2008. Diversity and distribution of rodent and shrew species
associated with variations in altitude on Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanzania. Mammalia
72: 178-185
Makundi, Rhodes H. Apia W. Massawe, Loth S. Mulungu, Abdul Katakweba, Thomas
J. Mbise and Georgies Mgode. (2008). Potential mammalian reservoirs in a bubonic
plague outbreak focus in Mbulu District, northern Tanzania, in 2007. Mammalia
72: 253-257.
Laudisoit Anne, Herwig Leirs, Rhodes H. Makundi and Boris R. Krasnov (2009). Seasonal and habitat dependence of species composition of flea assemblages parasitic on small mammals in Tanzania. Integrative Zoology 4(2): 196-212
Makundi, Rhodes H., Apia W. Massawe, Loth S. Mulungu, and Abdul Katakweba
(2009) Diversity and population dynamics of rodents in farm-fallow mosaic fields
in Central Tanzania. African Journal of Ecology (In Press. Accepted February
2009).
Anne Laudisoit, Simon Neerinckx, Rhodes H. Makundi, Herwig Leirs and Boris R. Krasnov (2009). Are local plague endemicity and ecological characteristics of vectors and reservoirs related? A case study in north-east Tanzania. Current Zoology 55(3): 200-211.
Lalis Aude, Michel Baylac, Jean François Cosson, Rhodes H. Makundi,
Robert S. Machang’u and Christiane Denys (2009). Cranial morphometric
and fine scale genetic variability of two adjacent Mastomys natalensis (Rodentia:
Muridae) populations. Acta Theriologica 54 (2): 171–181.