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The Biology of the Naked Mole-Rat

Paul W. Sherman (Hrsg.), Jennifer U.M. Jarvis (Hrsg.), Richard D. Alexander (Hrsg.)

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Naturwissenschaften, Medizin, Informatik, Technik / Naturwissenschaften allgemein

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This volume brings together more than a decade of information collected in the field and lab on the naked mole-rat (Heterocephalus glaber), a northeast African mammal unique for its physical characteristics and eusociality. Nearly blind and virtually hairless, naked mole-rats inhabit large subterranean colonies in which only one female and her one to three mates conceive offspring, while the young from previous litters maintain and defend the group as do workers in colonies of the social insects. In this first major treatise on naked mole-rats an international group of researchers covers such topics as the evolution of eusociality, phylogeny and systematics of the rodent family Bathyergidae, population and behavioral ecology and genetics of naked mole-rats in the field, vocal and nonvocal behaviors, social organization and divisions of labor within colonies, and climatic, social, and physiological factors affecting growth, reproduction, and reproductive suppression. In addition to the editors, the contributors are D. H. Abbott, M. W. Allard, N. C. Bennett, R. A. Brett, S. H. Braude, B. Crespi, S. V. Edwards, C. G. Faulkes, L. M. George, R. L. Honeycutt, E. A. Lacey, C. E. Liddell, E. McDaid, K. Nelson, K. M. Noonan, J. O'Riain, J. W. Pepper, H. K. Reeve, and D. A. Schlitter.

Originally published in 1991.

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Hairless, Paper wasp, Scorpion, Arachnid, Honey bee, Reproductive suppression, Hymenoptera, Namaqua dune mole-rat, African wild dog, Army ant, Mole-rat, White-lipped snake, Bald-faced hornet, House mouse, Ant colony, Nest box, Nest usurpation, Cane rat, Cape dune mole-rat, Cockroach, Muskrat, Fungus, Sexual dimorphism, Termite, Baboon, Cape mole-rat, Yellow baboon, Barn owl, Spalax, Carpenter bee, Escherichia coli, Mealworm, Squirrel, Naked mole-rat, Snake, Common mole-rat, Silvery mole-rat, Laboratory rat, Rodent, Basking shark, Molehill, Cannibalism (zoology), Ground squirrel, Darkling beetle, Reptile, Stingless bee, Milk snake, Insectivore, Florida scrub jay, Brood (honey bee), Defecation, H. glaber, African bush elephant, Mongoose, Female, Mouse lemur, Western honey bee, Garter snake, Eusociality, Elephant seal, Banded mongoose, Fetus (biology), Cryptomys, Predation, Polymorphism (biology), Epidermis (zoology), Hamster, Black rat, Golden mole, Spermatozoon