Volume 6, Number 4—August 2000
Research
Dual Captures of Colorado Rodents: Implications for Transmission of Hantaviruses
Charles H. Calisher*
, James E. Childs†, William P. Sweeney*, K. Max Canestorp‡, and Barry J. Beaty*
, James E. Childs†, William P. Sweeney*, K. Max Canestorp‡, and Barry J. Beaty*Table 2
Sex and age association for dually captured rodents
| No. of species (recapture pairs)b | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Age-Sexa | P. man | P. truei | R. meg. | S. hisp. | T. min | Ch. hisp. |
| AM/AM | 3 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| AM/AF | 10 (1) | 0 | 5 (2)c,d | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| AM/JF | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| AF/JF | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| JM/JM | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| JF/JF | 3 | 0 | 1 (1) | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| JM/JF | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
aA = adult (deer mouse 18 g; western harvest mice 9 g; hispid cotton rats 125 g; least chipmunks 30 g; hispid pocket mice 50 g; silky pocket mice 7 g. J = subadult or younger; M = male; F = female. Source: Fitzgerald et al., 1994 (11).
b for definition of species see Table 1.
cAdult male captured with an adult female 03/11/97 and with a different adult female 04/20/97.
dAdult male capture with an adult female 04/19/97 and with a juvenile female 04/20/97.
