AnAge entry for Microtus arvalis
Classification (HAGRID: 02888)
- Taxonomy
-
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
Order: Rodentia
Family: Cricetidae
Genus: Microtus
- Species
- Microtus arvalis
- Common name
- Common vole
- Synonyms
- Microtus obscurus, Arvicola arvensis, Microtus angularis, Microtus asturianus, Microtus brevirostris, Arvicola campestris, Arvicola cunicularius, Lemmus fulvus, Microtus hyrcania, Arvicola incertus, Arvicola mystacinus, Hypudaeus obscurus, Microtus orcadensis, Microtus sarnius, Microtus terrestris, Arvicola vulgaris, Mus arvalis albus, Arvicola arvalis assimilis, Arvicola arvalis ater, Microtus arvalis calypsus, Microtus arvalis cimbricus, Arvicola arvalis contigua, Arvicola arvalis depressa, Arvicola arvalis duplicatus, Arvicola arvalis flava, Arvicola arvalis fulva, Arvicola arvalis galliardi, Microtus arvalis gudauricus, Microtus arvalis hawelkae, Microtus arvalis incognitus, Microtus arvalis iphigeniae, Microtus arvalis khorkoutensis, Microtus arvalis macrocranius, Microtus arvalis meridianus, Arvicola arvalis principalis, Microtus orcadensis ronaldshaiensis, Microtus orcadensis rousiensis, Microtus orcadensis sandayensis, Arvicola arvalis simplex, Microtus arvalis transcaucasicus, Microtus arvalis transuralensis, Arvicola arvalis variabilis, Microtus sandayensis westrae
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- Maximum longevity
- 4.8 years (captivity)
- Source
- ref. 671
- Sample size
- Small
- Data quality
- Acceptable
- Observations
Voles, in general, are short-lived and show seasonal population crashes, probably due to lack of food. One captive specimen lived 4.8 years [0671].
Life history traits (averages)
- Female sexual maturity
- 38 days
- Male sexual maturity
- 56 days
- Gestation
- 21 days
- Weaning
- 20 days
- Litter size
- 5.1 (viviparous)
- Litters per year
- 5.5
- Inter-litter interval
- 20 days
- Weight at birth
- 1.85 g
- Weight at weaning
- 8.9 g
- Adult weight
- 27.5 g
- Postnatal growth rate
- 0.0561 days-1 (from Gompertz function)
- Maximum longevity residual
- 59%
Metabolism
- Typical body temperature
- 310ºK or 37.0ºC or 98.6ºF
- Basal metabolic rate
- 0.3430 W
- Body mass
- 21.9 g
- Metabolic rate per body mass
- 0.015662 W/g
References
- [0671] Richard Weigl (2005), Longevity of Mammals in Captivity; from the Living Collections of the World
- [0036] Savage et al. (2004), The predominance of quarter-power scaling in biology
- [0420] White and Seymour (2003), Mammalian basal metabolic rate is proportional to body mass2/3 (PubMed)
- [0610] Ernest (2003), Life history characteristics of placental non-volant mammals
- [0455] Virginia Hayssen et al. (1993), Asdell's Patterns of Mammalian Reproduction: A Compendium of Species-Specific Data
- [0002] Caleb Finch (1990), Longevity, Senescence, and the Genome
- [0542] Bernhard Grzimek (1990), Grzimek's Encyclopedia of Mammals
- [0382] Dobrowolska and Gromadzka-Ostrowska (1984), Age and androgen-related changes in morphological parameters, haematological indices and serum protein fraction in common vole (Microtus arvalis Pall.) growing in different photoperiods (PubMed)
- [0731] Zullinger et al. (1984), Fitting sigmoid equations to mammalian growth curves
External Resources
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System
- ITIS 632856
- Animal Diversity Web
- ADW account
- Encyclopaedia of Life
- Search EOL
- NCBI Taxonomy
- Taxonomy ID 47230
- Entrez
- Search all databases
- Ageing Literature
- Search Google Scholar or Search PubMed
- Images
- Google Image search
- Internet
- Search Google