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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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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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, 2007 Phylogenetic trees based upon major histocompatibility complex (MHC) gene sequences, particularly those encompassing sites encoding the antigen recognition site, are often discordant with the species tree.
Kundu, S., Faulkes, C.
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Long-lived rodents reveal signatures of positive selection in genes associated with lifespan. [PDF]
PLoS Genetics, 2018 The genetics of lifespan determination is poorly understood. Most research has been done on short-lived animals and it is unclear if these insights can be transferred to long-lived mammals like humans.
Arne Sahm +15 more
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Animals, 2023 The naked mole-rat (Heterocephalus glaber) occurs in colonies with a distinct dominance hierarchy, including one dominant, breeding female (the queen), 1–3 breeding males, and non-reproductive subordinates of both sexes that are reproductively suppressed
Tshepiso Lesedi Majelantle +5 more
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Advanced Science, EarlyView.Conceptual illustration of a Global Ecosystem Methane Observing System (GEM‐OS) integrating satellites, aircraft, atmospheric networks, and ecosystem measurements to quantify methane emissions from anthropogenic and natural sources. The multi‐scale observing framework improves source attribution, reduces uncertainty in regional methane budgets, and ...
P. Ciais +32 more
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Low thyroxine serves as an upstream regulator of ecophysiological adaptations in Ansell’s mole-rats
Frontiers in EndocrinologyIntroductionAbout 10% of all rodent species have evolved a subterranean way of life, although life in subterranean burrows is associated with harsh environmental conditions that would be lethal to most animals living above ground. Two key adaptations for
Patricia Gerhardt +6 more
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Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2022 Transmission of parasites between hosts is facilitated by close contact of hosts. Consequently, parasites have been proposed as an important constraint to the evolution of sociality accounting for its rarity.
Heike Lutermann
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Advanced Science, EarlyView.Low latency carbon budget estimates for July 2024–June 2025 combine atmospheric CO2 growth rates, fossil emissions, ocean uptake, DGVM land fluxes, and OCO‐2 inversions. The budget shows that late‐2024 land carbon losses dominate the annual anomaly, while early‐2025 recovery differs between bottom‐up models and top‐down inversions, especially in ...
Piyu Ke +32 more
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Ecological constraints drive social evolution in the African mole–rats
Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences, 1997 The African mole-rats (family Bathyergidae) are subterranean hystricomorph rodents occurring in a variety of habitats and displaying levels of sociality which range from solitary to eusocial, making them a unique mammalian taxonomic group to test ecological influences on sociality.
C G, Faulkes +5 more
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