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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.
Tshepiso Lesedi Majelantle +4 more
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, 2016 Published as part of Don E. Wilson, Thomas E. Lacher, Jr & Russell A. Mittermeier, 2016, Bathyergidae, pp. 352-370 in Handbook of the Mammals of the World – Volume 6 Lagomorphs and Rodents I, Barcelona :Lynx Edicions on page 352, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo ...
Don E. Wilson +2 more
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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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Comparative Population Genetics and Dynamics in Two Populations of African Mole‐Rats
Journal of Zoology, EarlyView.This study compares spatial genetics between two subspecies of Cryptomys hottentotus, namely the highveld (Cryptomys hottentotus pretoriae) and the Mahali mole‐rat (Cryptomys hottentotus mahali). Whereas Cryptomys hottentotus mahali exhibited shorter effective dispersal distances and reduced inbreeding than Cryptomys hottentotus pretoriae, both ...
Tobias Süess +6 more
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The African Mole‐Rat Genus Cryptomys and Its Species: Distinct in Their Genes and Habitats
Zoologica Scripta, EarlyView.ABSTRACTThe African mole‐rat genus Cryptomys comprises five morphologically cryptic lineages distributed across South Africa and in Zimbabwe, historically treated as subspecies of C. hottentotus (C. h. hottentotus, C. h. mahali, C. h. natalensis, C. h. pretoriae and C. h. nimrodi).
Michaela Uhrová +6 more
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Comment on 'Naked mole-rat mortality rates defy Gompertzian laws by not increasing with age'
eLife, 2019 Ruby et al. recently analyzed historical lifespan data on more than 3200 naked mole-rats, collected over a total observation period of about 38 years (Ruby et al., 2018). They report that mortality hazards do not seem to increase across the full range of
Philip Dammann +9 more
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Spatial and temporal activity patterns of the free-living giant mole-rat (Fukomys mechowii), the largest social bathyergid. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 Despite the considerable attention devoted to the biology of social species of African mole-rats (Bathyergidae, Rodentia), knowledge is lacking about their behaviour under natural conditions.
Matěj Lövy, Jan Sklíba, Radim Sumbera
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Pup Recruitment in a Eusocial Mammal—Which Factors Influence Early Pup Survival in Naked Mole-Rats?
Animals, 2023 In eusocial insects, offspring survival strongly depends on the quality and quantity of non-breeders. In contrast, the influence of social factors on offspring survival is more variable in cooperatively breeding mammals since maternal traits also play an
Michaela Wetzel +4 more
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Journal of Zoology, Volume 328, Issue 2, Page 107-120, February 2026.Animals in harsh environments rely on specialised adaptations. Two decades of field research on African striped mice (Rhabdomys pumilio) in the Succulent Karoo semi‐desert reveal a distinct ‘harshness response’—marked by reduced metabolism and glucocorticoid levels—that differs fundamentally from the classic stress response.
C. Schradin, N. Pillay, R. Rimbach
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Cortical bone adaptation and mineral mobilization in the subterranean mammal Bathyergus suillus (Rodentia: Bathyergidae): effects of age and sex [PDF]
PeerJ, 2018 The patterns of bone modeling and mineral mobilization (skeletal homeostasis) among mammals other than humans and laboratory rodents are still poorly known.
Germán Montoya-Sanhueza +1 more
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