ArticlePhilosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences2023
The best of both worlds: no apparent trade-off between immunity and reproduction in two group-living African mole-rat species.
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- Toward an evolutionary ecology of (in)equality.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2023Article
- The best of both worlds: no apparent trade-off between immunity and reproduction in two group-living African mole-rat species.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2023Article
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Abstract
Co-operatively breeding mammals often exhibit a female reproductive skew and suppression of the subordinate non-breeding group members. According to evolutionary theory and the immunity-fertility axis, an inverse relationship between reproductive investment and survival (through immunocompetence) is expected. As such, this study investigated if a trade-off between immunocompetence and reproduction arises in two co-operatively breeding African mole-rat species, namely the Damaraland mole-rat (
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