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Extended Longevity of Reproductives Appears to be Common in Fukomys Mole-Rats (Rodentia, Bathyergidae)

African mole-rats (Bathyergidae, Rodentia) contain several social, cooperatively breeding species with low extrinsic mortality and unusually high longevity. All social bathyergids live in multigenerational families where reproduction is skewed towards a few breeding individuals. Most of their offspr...

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Autores principales: Dammann, Philip, Šumbera, Radim, Maßmann, Christina, Scherag, André, Burda, Hynek
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3076438/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21533255
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0018757