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Longevity of a solitary mole-rat species and its implications for the assumed link between sociality and longevity in African mole-rats (Bathyergidae). [PDF]
Biol Lett, 2022 Sociality and cooperative breeding are associated with enhanced longevity in insects and birds, but whether this is also true for mammals is still subject to debate. African mole-rats (Bathyergidae) have recently been claimed to be the only mammalian family in which such an association may exist because cooperatively breeding bathyergids ...
Dammann P, Šaffa G, Šumbera R.
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Plasma oxidative stress in reproduction of two eusocial African mole-rat species, the naked mole-rat and the Damaraland mole-rat [PDF]
Frontiers in Zoology, 2021 AbstractOne of the most prominent life-history trade-offs involves the cost of reproduction. Oxidative stress has been proposed to be involved in this trade-off and has been associated with reduced life span. There is currently an unclear relationship between oxidative cost and the reproduction-longevity trade-off. The current study, using a non-lethal
Paul Juan Jacobs +2 more
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Comparative analysis of thyroid hormone systems in rodents with subterranean lifestyle
Scientific Reports, 2023 African mole-rats are subterranean rodents inhabiting underground burrows. This habitat entails risks of overheating, hypoxia, and scarce food availability.
Patricia Gerhardt +11 more
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Parasites & Vectors, 2021 Background The endemic rodent family of Bathyergidae in Africa, particularly South Africa, are understudied as reservoirs of diseases of significant medical importance. Considering the diversity and wide distribution of African mole-rats in South Africa,
Dina M. Fagir +4 more
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Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2021 African mole-rats of the genus Fukomys (Northern common mole-rats) combine a monogamous mating system and pronounced sexual size dimorphism; a pattern highly untypical for mammals.
Kai R. Caspar +2 more
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Kinematics of chisel-tooth digging by African mole-rats [PDF]
Journal of Experimental Biology, 2017 Mole-rats are known to use their protruding, chisel-like incisors to dig underground networks of tunnels, but it remains unknown how these incisors are used to break and displace the soil. Theoretically, different excavation strategies can be used. Mole-rats could either use their head depressor muscles to power scooping motions of the upper incisors ...
Van Wassenbergh, Sam +2 more
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Locomotor Activity and Body Temperature Patterns over a Temperature Gradient in the Highveld Mole-Rat (Cryptomys hottentotus pretoriae). [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2017 African mole-rats are strictly subterranean mammals that live in extensive burrow systems. High humidity levels in the burrows prevent mole-rats from thermoregulating using evaporative cooling.
Meghan Haupt +2 more
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Brain atlas of the African mole‐ratFukomys anselli [PDF]
Journal of Comparative Neurology, 2019 AbstractAfrican mole‐rats are subterranean rodents that spend their whole life in underground burrow systems. They show a range of morphological and physiological adaptations to their ecotope, for instance severely reduced eyes and specialized somatosensory, olfactory, and auditory systems.
Alexa Dollas +4 more
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Animals, 2022 The naked mole-rat (Heterocephalus glaber) and the Damaraland mole-rat (Fukomys damarensis) possess extreme reproductive skew with a single reproductive female responsible for reproduction.
Nigel C. Bennett +2 more
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Extended longevity of reproductives appears to be common in Fukomys mole-rats (Rodentia, Bathyergidae). [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2011 African mole-rats (Bathyergidae, Rodentia) contain several social, cooperatively breeding species with low extrinsic mortality and unusually high longevity.
Philip Dammann +4 more
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