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Independent evolution of pain insensitivity in African mole-rats: origins and mechanisms. [PDF]

J Comp Physiol A Neuroethol Sens Neural Behav Physiol, 2020
AbstractThe naked mole-rat (Heterocephalus glaber) is famous for its longevity and unusual physiology. This eusocial species that lives in highly ordered and hierarchical colonies with a single breeding queen, also discovered secrets enabling somewhat pain-free living around 20 million years ago.
Smith ESJ, Park TJ, Lewin GR.
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Clocks Ticking in the Dark: A Review of Biological Rhythms in Subterranean African Mole-Rats [PDF]

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2022
Biological rhythms are rhythmic fluctuations of biological functions that occur in almost all organisms and on several time scales. These rhythms are generated endogenously and entail the coordination of physiological and behavioural processes to ...
Maria K. Oosthuizen, Maria K. Oosthuizen, Nigel C. Bennett, Nigel C. Bennett   +3 more
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Otoacoustic emissions in African mole-rats [PDF]

Hearing Research
African mole-rats display highly derived hearing that is characterized by low sensitivity and a narrow auditory range restricted to low frequencies < 10 kHz. Recently, it has been suggested that two species of these rodents do not exhibit distortion product otoacoustic emissions (DPOAE), which was interpreted as evidence for a lack of cochlear ...
Geoffrey A. Manley, Bert Maat, Sabine Begall, Pascal Malkemper, Kai R. Caspar, Leif Moritz, Pim van Dijk   +6 more
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Naked mole-rats have distinctive cardiometabolic and genetic adaptations to their underground low-oxygen lifestyles [PDF]

Nature Communications
The naked mole-rat Heterocephalus glaber is a eusocial mammal exhibiting extreme longevity (37-year lifespan), extraordinary resistance to hypoxia and absence of cardiovascular disease.
Chris G. Faulkes, Thomas R. Eykyn, Jan Lj. Miljkovic, James D. Gilbert, Rebecca L. Charles, Hiran A. Prag, Nikayla Patel, Daniel W. Hart, Michael P. Murphy, Nigel C. Bennett, Dunja Aksentijevic   +10 more
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The Somatosensory World of the African Naked Mole-Rat

, 2021
The naked mole-rat (Heterocephalus glaber) is famous for its longevity and unusual physiology. This eusocial species that lives in highly ordered and hierarchical colonies with a single breeding queen, also discovered secrets enabling somewhat pain-free living around 20 million years ago.
Lewin, G., Smith, E., Reznick, J., Debus, K., Barker, A., Park , T.   +5 more
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Phylogenetic modeling of enhancer shifts in African mole-rats reveals regulatory changes associated with tissue-specific traits. [PDF]

Genome Res, 2023
Changes in gene regulation are thought to underlie most phenotypic differences between species. For subterranean rodents such as the naked mole-rat, proposed phenotypic adaptations include hypoxia tolerance, metabolic changes, and cancer resistance ...
Parey E, Fernandez-Aroca D, Frost S, Uribarren A, Park TJ, Zöttl M, St John Smith E, Berthelot C, Villar D.   +8 more
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From Mice to Mole-Rats: Species-Specific Modulation of Adult Hippocampal Neurogenesis [PDF]

Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2017
Rodent populations living in their natural environments have very diverse ecological and life history profiles that may differ substantially from that of conventional laboratory rodents.
Maria K. Oosthuizen
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Functional, Morphological, and Evolutionary Characterization of Hearing in Subterranean, Eusocial African Mole-Rats. [PDF]

Curr Biol, 2020
Naked mole-rats are highly vocal, eusocial, subterranean rodents with, counterintuitively, poor hearing. The causes underlying their altered hearing are unknown.
Pyott SJ, Pyott SJ, van Tuinen M, Screven LA, Schrode KM, Bai JP, Barone CM, Price SD, Lysakowski A, Sanderford M, Kumar S, Santos-Sacchi J, Lauer AM, Park TJ.   +13 more
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Cannabinoid Modulation of Development and Neuroprotection in African Naked Mole-Rats [PDF]

, 2020
Naked mole-rats display typical subterranean features, but also has unusual characteristics even among subterranean mammals due to unusually large colony sizes. The naked mole-rat provides insights into the complex interplay of evolutionary adaptations to the constraints of subterranean living, the hallmark of which is extreme hypoxia tolerance.
Brigitte M Browe (9908262)
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Book Reviews: African Mole-Rats: Ecology and Eusociality

, 2017
Book Title: African Mole-Rats: Ecology and Eusociality,Book Authors:  Nigel C. Bennett&Chris G.Faulkes  (eds).Cambridge University Press. 2000. Pp. 273. Price £35.00. ISBN 0 521 77199 4.
O’Riain, M.J.
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