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The biology of the naked mole-rat

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
Print Book, English, 1991
Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey, 1991
Aufsatzsammlung
xvi, 518 pages, 1 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm.
9780691085852, 9780691024486, 9780691024981, 0691085854, 0691024480, 0691024987
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The evolution of eusociality / Richard D. Alexander, Katharine M. Noonan, Bernard J. Crespi
Systematics and evolution of the family bathyergidae / Rodney L. Honeycutt, Marc W. Allard, Scott V. Edwards, Duane A. Schlitter
Ecology and behavior of the family bathyergidae / Jennifer U.M. Jarvis, Nigel C. Bennett
The population structure of naked mole-rat colonies / Robert A. Brett
The ecology of naked mole-rat colonies : burrowing, food, and limiting factors / Robert A. Brett
Which naked mole-rats volcano? / Stanton H. Braude
Genetic variation within and among populations of the naked mole-rat : evidence from nuclear and mitochondrial genomes / Rodney L. Honeycutt, Kimberlyn Nelson, Duane A. Schlitter, Paul W. Sherman
An ethogram for the naked mole-rat : nonvocal behaviors / Eileen A. Lacey, et al
Vocalizations of the naked mole-rat / John W. Pepper, Stanton H. Braude, Eileen A. Lacey, Paul W. Sherman
Social organization of naked mole-rat colonies : evidence for divisions of labor / Eileen A. Lacey, Paul W. Sherman. Intracolonial aggression and nepotism by the breeding female mole-rat / Hudson K. Reeve, Paul W. Sherman
Growth and factors affecting body size in naked mole-rats / Jennifer U.M. Jarvis, M. Justin O'Riain, Elizabeth McDaid
Reproduction of naked mole-rats / Jennifer U.M. Jarvis
Hormonal and behavioral aspects of reproductive suppression in female naked mole-rats / Christopher G. Faulkes, et al
Some unanswered questions about naked mole-rats / Richard D. Alexander
From the Madeline Kripke Collection of the History of Lexicography