Animals, 2022 Animal personality traits (consistent behavioral differences between individuals in their behavior across time and/or situation) affect individual fitness through facets, such as dispersal.
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The Naked Mole-Rat: An Unusual Organism with an Unexpected Latent Potential for Increased Intelligence? [PDF]
, 2019 Naked mole-rats are eusocial, hairless mammals that are uniquely adapted to their harsh, low-oxygen subsurface habitat. Although their encephalization quotient, a controversial marker of intelligence, is low, they exhibit many features considered tell ...
Schulze-Makuch, Dirk
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Functional anatomy and disparity of the postcranial skeleton of African mole-rats (Bathyergidae)
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2022 The burrowing adaptations of the appendicular system of African mole-rats (Bathyergidae) have been comparatively less investigated than their cranial adaptations.
Germán Montoya-Sanhueza +4 more
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Transcriptome sequencing and phylogenomic resolution within Spalacidae (Rodentia) [PDF]
, 2014 BACKGROUND: Subterranean mammals have been of great interest for evolutionary biologists because of their highly specialized traits for the life underground. Owing to the convergence of morphological traits and the incongruence of molecular evidence, the
Eviatar Nevo +8 more
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Subterranean Life-Style Does Not Limit Long Distance Dispersal in African Mole-Rats
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2022 Dispersal from the natal site to breeding sites is a crucial phase in the life history of animals and can have profound effects on the reproductive ecology and the structure of animal societies.
Kyle T. Finn +4 more
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Functional histology of the skin in the subterranean African giant mole-rat: thermal windows are determined solely by pelage characteristics [PDF]
PeerJ, 2020 Excavation of burrows is an extremely physically demanding activity producing a large amount of metabolic heat. Dissipation of its surplus is crucial to avoid the risk of overheating, but in subterranean mammals it is complicated due to the absence of ...
Lucie Pleštilová +5 more
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From Mice to Mole-Rats: Species-Specific Modulation of Adult Hippocampal Neurogenesis
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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Energetic benefits of sociality offset the costs of parasitism in a cooperative mammal. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 Sociality and particularly advanced forms of sociality such as cooperative breeding (living in permanent groups with reproductive division of labour) is relatively rare among vertebrates.
Heike Lutermann +3 more
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Otoacoustic emissions in African mole-rats
Hearing ResearchAfrican 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 +6 more
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Non-image Forming Light Detection by Melanopsin, Rhodopsin, and Long-Middlewave (L/W) Cone Opsin in the Subterranean Blind Mole Rat, Spalax Ehrenbergi: Immunohistochemical Characterization, Distribution, and Connectivity [PDF]
, 2016 The blind mole rat, Spalax ehrenbergi, can, despite severely degenerated eyes covered by fur, entrain to the daily light/dark cycle and adapt to seasonal changes due to an intact circadian timing system.
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