The Biology of the Naked Mole-Rat
By Paul W. Sherman, J. Jarvis, R. Alexander. 2017
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Subfields: Paleontology
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- Reproductive skew among males in a female-dominated mammalian society (2002, background): “…been documented with behavioral and molecular data in many group-living mammals (ungulates; Clutton-Brock, 1988; Pemberton et al., 1992; rodents; Sherman et al., 1991; primates; Altmann et al., 1996; Bercovitch and Nurnberg, 1997; De Ruiter et al., 1994; Smith et al., 1993; carnivores; Creel et…”
- New colony formation in the “highly inbred” eusocial naked mole-rat: outbreeding is preferred (2000, background): “Colonies generally consist of nuclear families, so workers gain inclusive fitness benefits (Hamilton, 1964) by assisting in the production of offspring by the queen ( Jarvis, 1981; Sherman et al., 1991).”
- Are Evolutionary Explanations Unfalsifiable? Evolutionary Psychology and the Lakatosian Philosophy of Science (2000, background): “Since then dozens of articles and one book (see Sherman et al., 1991) have been written on the ecology and behavior of this fascinating eusocial species.”
- Social competition and its consequences in female mammals (2013, background): “For example, in naked 796 mole-rats, groups sometimes consist of several hundred individuals (Brett 1991).”
- Reproductive conflicts in social animals: who has power? (2003, background): “Dominant female naked mole-rats Heterocephalus glaber are the biggest and most aggressive females and their rank is achieved by fights, which often result in serious injury or death [ 9 ].”
- Access to mutualistic endosymbiotic microbes: an underappreciated benefit of group living (2008, background): “…is well known, the beneficial effects of endosymbionts on host nutrition is becoming increasingly well documented in many other animals (McBee 1977; Sherman et al. 1991; Troyer 1991; Bjorndal 1996; Moran and Baumann 2000; Moran et al. 2005; Woyke et al. 2006), including humans (Cash and Hooper…”
- Mean colony relatedness is a poor predictor of colony structure and female philopatry in the communally breeding Bechstein's bat (Myotis bechsteinii) (2002, unknown): “The degree of colony fidelity of Bechstein’s bats might resemble that of naked mole-rats, a species that in contrast to M. bechsteinii exhibits a high reproductive skew, with only one breeding pair per colony ( Sherman et al. 1991 ).”