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