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    Social Evolution in African Mole-Rats – A Comparative Overview

    The African mole-rat superfamily are a unique group of subterranean rodents that are remarkable for their adaptations to a subterranean lifestyle and their range in sociality, spanning strictly solitary specie...

    Christopher G. Faulkes, Nigel C. Bennett in The Extraordinary Biology of the Naked Mole-Rat (2021)

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    Neuropeptidergic and Neuroendocrine Systems Underlying Eusociality and the Concomitant Social Regulation of Reproduction in Naked Mole-Rats: A Comparative Approach

    The African mole-rat family (Bathyergidae) includes the first mammalian species identified as eusocial: naked mole-rats. Comparative studies of eusocial and solitary mole-rat species have identified difference...

    Clive W. Coen, Nigel C. Bennett in The Extraordinary Biology of the Naked Mol… (2021)

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    Next-Generation Sequencing Applications in Head and Neck Oncology

    Head and neck cancer remains a major medical problem with significant morbidity, mortality and quality of life issues. Over the recent past there has been an increase in incidence, a shift in etiological facto...

    Camile S. Farah, Maryam Jessri in Next Generation Sequencing in Cancer Resea… (2015)

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    The Reproductive Physiology and Endocrinology of the African Mole-rats: with Special Reference to Southern African Mole-rat Species

    Nigel C. Bennett, Gundula H. Gutjahr, Chris G. Faulkes in Subterranean Rodents (2007)

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    Middle Ear Ossicles as a Diagnostic Trait in African Mole-Rats (Rodentia: Bathyergidae)

    Within the family Bathyergidae (subterranean African mole-rats), Cryptomys and Coetomys are the most speciose genera. Whereas each species can be characterized karyologically and from mitochondrial gene sequence ...

    Simone Lange, Hynek Burda, Nigel C. Bennett, Pavel Němec in African Biodiversity (2005)