ArticleAdvances in experimental medicine and biology2021
Social Evolution in African Mole-Rats - A Comparative Overview.
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- The naked mole-rat microbiome is associated with healthy aging and social structure.Cell reports · 2026Article
- Eusocial reproduction selects for longevity.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- The genomic consequences and persistence of sociality in spiders.Genome research · 2025Article
- Five years later, with double the demographic data, naked mole-rat mortality rates continue to defy Gompertzian laws by not increasing with age.GeroScience · 2024Article
- Seasonal piRNA Expression Profile Changes in the Testes of Plateau Zokor (Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2024Article
- Patterns of Genetic Diversity and Gene Flow Associated With an Aridity Gradient in Populations of Common Mole-rats, Cryptomys hottentotus hottentotus.Genome biology and evolution · 2024Article
- Naked mole-rats have distinctive cardiometabolic and genetic adaptations to their underground low-oxygen lifestyles.Nature communications · 2024Article
- Damaraland mole-rats do not rely on helpers for reproduction or survival.Evolution letters · 2023Article
- Reproductive Suppression Caused by Spermatogenic Arrest: Transcriptomic Evidence from a Non-Social Animal.International journal of molecular sciences · 2023Article
- Postnatal oogenesis leads to an exceptionally large ovarian reserve in naked mole-rats.Nature communications · 2023Article
- Laterality in the Damaraland Mole-Rat: Insights from a Eusocial Mammal.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2023Article
- Social Isolation Does Not Alter Exploratory Behaviour, Spatial Learning and Memory in Captive Damaraland Mole-Rats (Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2023Article
- Reproduction and production in a social context: Group size, reproductive skew and increasing returns.Ecology letters · 2023Article
- Tissue Oxidative Ecology along an Aridity Gradient in a Mammalian Subterranean Species.Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Housing and Husbandry Alternatives for Naked Mole Rat Colonies Used in Research Settings.Journal of the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science : JAALAS · 2022Article
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Abstract
The African mole-rat superfamily are a unique group of subterranean rodents that are remarkable for their adaptations to a subterranean lifestyle and their range in sociality, spanning strictly solitary species to the naked mole-rat, the most social of all rodents. Widely distributed through sub-Saharan Africa their occurrence is associated with the presence of food resources in the form of underground roots, bulbs and tubers, which form their staple diet. African mole-rats have an ancient Oligocene/Eocene origin, with the naked mole-rat, the extant species with the earliest divergence from the common ancestor of the clade. As a consequence of its early evolution the naked mole-rat appears to have acquired many extraordinary biological features, even when compared with other mole-rats. Molecular phylogenies indicate that complex sociality and cooperative breeding has been convergently gained and/or lost more than once among African mole-rats, making them a fascinating group for comparative studies of social evolution. Ultimately, ecological constraints on digging and finding food have played a role in increasing cooperative behavior and social complexity, from what was most likely a monogamous ancestor living in family groups. Phylogenetically controlled comparisons suggest that proximate control of their lifestyle shows both conservation and divergence in the underlying mechanisms.
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