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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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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Plasticity and constraints on social evolution in African mole-rats: ultimate and proximate factors. [PDF]
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci, 2013 Faulkes CG, Bennett NC.
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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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Family Wide Molecular Adaptations to Underground Life in African Mole-Rats Revealed by Phylogenomic Analysis. [PDF]
Mol Biol Evol, 2015 Davies KT +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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Tissue Oxidative Ecology along an Aridity Gradient in a Mammalian Subterranean Species
Antioxidants, 2022 Climate change has caused aridification which can alter habitat vegetation, soil and precipitation profiles potentially affecting resident species. Vegetation and soil profiles are important for subterranean mole-rats as increasing aridity causes soils ...
Paul J. Jacobs +7 more
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Adult neurogenesis and its anatomical context in the hippocampus of three mole-rat species
Frontiers in Neuroanatomy, 2014 African mole-rats (family Bathyergidae) are small to medium sized, long-lived and strictly subterranean rodents that became valuable animal models as a result of their longevity and diversity in social organization.
Irmgard eAmrein +6 more
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Dental peculiarities in the silvery mole-rat: an original model for studying the evolutionary and biological origins of continuous dental generation in mammals [PDF]
PeerJ, 2015 Unravelling the evolutionary and developmental mechanisms that have impacted the mammalian dentition, since more than 200 Ma, is an intricate issue. Interestingly, a few mammal species, including the silvery mole-rat Heliophobius argenteocinereus, are ...
Helder Gomes Rodrigues, Radim Šumbera
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