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Social Structure Predicts Genital Morphology in African Mole-Rats

BACKGROUND: African mole-rats (Bathyergidae, Rodentia) exhibit a wide range of social structures, from solitary to eusocial. We previously found a lack of sex differences in the external genitalia and morphology of the perineal muscles associated with the phallus in the eusocial naked mole-rat. This...

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Autores principales: Seney, Marianne L., Kelly, Diane A., Goldman, Bruce D., Šumbera, Radim, Forger, Nancy G.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2759003/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19829697
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0007477