ArticleAnimal behaviour2018
No task specialization among helpers in Damaraland mole-rats.
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- Ecological inheritance facilitates the coexistence of environmental helpers and free riders.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026Article
- Flexibility in task performance and division of labour in a cooperatively breeding cichlid.Behavioral ecology and sociobiology · 2026Article
- Lactate as a key energy source facilitating cooperative behaviour in helper Damaraland mole-rats.Biology letters · 2025Article
- Workload distribution in wild Damaraland mole-rat groups.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2025Article
- The evolution of division of labour: preconditions and evolutionary feedback.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2025Review
- Pre- and postcopulatory competition affect testes mass and organization differently in two monophyletic mole-rat species,Journal of mammalogy · 2023Article
- Social Evolution in African Mole-Rats - A Comparative Overview.Advances in experimental medicine and biology · 2021Article
- Breeders are less active foragers than non-breeders in wild Damaraland mole-rats.Biology letters · 2020Article
- Operationalizing evolutionary transitions in individuality.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2020Article
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Abstract
The specialization of individuals in specific behavioural tasks is often attributed either to irreversible differences in development, which generate functionally divergent cooperative phenotypes, or to age-related changes in the relative frequency with which individuals perform different cooperative activities; both of which are common in many insect caste systems. However, contrasts in cooperative behaviour can take other forms and, to date, few studies of cooperative behaviour in vertebrates have explored the effects of age, adult phenotype and early development on individual differences in cooperative behaviour in sufficient detail to discriminate between these alternatives. Here, we used multinomial models to quantify the extent of behavioural specialization within nonreproductive Damaraland mole-rats,
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