Effects of Sex and Social Status on Neuromuscular Differentiation in the Eusocial Naked Mole-Rat (Heterocephalus Glaber)
Naked mole-rats live in large colonies and exhibit a strict reproductive hierarchy. Each colony has 1 breeding female and 1-3 breeding males; all other individuals are non-reproductive subordinates. Subordinates show a remarkable lack of sex differences in behavior and anatomy, but can become reprod...
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ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst
2009
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| Online Access: | https://scholarworks.umass.edu/open_access_dissertations/136 https://scholarworks.umass.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1123&context=open_access_dissertations |