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The impact of gape on the performance of the skull in chisel-tooth digging and scratch digging mole-rats (Rodentia: Bathyergidae) [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2016 The African mole-rats (Bathyergidae) are a family of rodents highly adapted for life underground. Previous research has shown that chisel-tooth digging mole-rats (which use their incisors to dig burrows) are clearly distinguishable from scratch diggers ...
Andrew F. McIntosh, Philip G. Cox
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Masticatory musculature of the African mole-rats (Rodentia: Bathyergidae) [PDF]
PeerJ, 2020 The Bathyergidae, commonly known as blesmols or African mole-rats, is a family of rodents well-known for their subterranean lifestyle and tunnelling behaviour. Four of the five extant bathyergid genera (Cryptomys, Fukomys, Georychus and Heliophobius) are
Philip G. Cox +2 more
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The Evolution and Ecology of Oxidative and Antioxidant Status: A Comparative Approach in African Mole-Rats [PDF]
Antioxidants, 2023 The naked mole-rat of the family Bathyergidae has been the showpiece for ageing research as they contradict the traditional understanding of the oxidative stress theory of ageing.
Paul. J. Jacobs +4 more
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Phylogeny and biogeography of the African Bathyergidae: a review of patterns and processes [PDF]
PeerJ, 2019 Background We review genealogical relationships, biogeographic patterns and broad historical drivers of speciation within the Bathyergidae, a group of endemic African rodents, as well as identify key taxa which need further research.
Jacobus H. Visser +2 more
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Energetics and Water Flux in the Subterranean Rodent Family Bathyergidae
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2022 The doubly labeled water (DLW) technique and indirect calorimetry enable measurement of an animal’s daily energy expenditure (DEE, kJ/day), resting metabolic rate (RMR, kJ/d), sustained metabolic scope (SusMS), body fat content (BF, %) as well as water ...
Daniel W. Hart +8 more
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On the parasites associated with the Bathyergidae
Koedoe: African Protected Area Conservation and Science, 1964 On the parasites associated with the ...
M.Sc. (Rand.), G De Graaff
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Temperature preferences of African mole-rats (family Bathyergidae) [PDF]
Journal of Thermal Biology, 2015 Many animals are able to detect small temperature differences and show strong temperature preferences during periods of rest and activity. Mammals inhabiting the subterranean ecotope can adapt their digging and foraging activity in shallow tunnels temporarily to periods with favourable ambient air and soil temperatures.
Sabine Begall +2 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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Fukomys mechowii(Rodentia: Bathyergidae)
Mammalian Species, 2021 AbstractFukomys mechowii (Peters, 1881), the giant mole-rat or Mechow’s mole-rat, is a cooperatively breeding, tooth-digging, subterranean rodent. It is the largest representative of the genus Fukomys, which is part of the African mole-rat family Bathyergidae.
Kai R Caspar, Hynek Burda, Sabine Begall
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Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2022 The social mole-rats of the family Bathyergidae show elaborate social organisation that may include division of labour between breeders and non-breeders as well as across non-breeders within their groups.
Markus Zöttl +6 more
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