Exposure to non-kin females rapidly affects testicular morphology in non-reproductive male Damaraland mole-rats

Damaraland mole-rats Fukomys damarensis are eusocial subterranean rodentsthat exhibit an extreme reproductive skew with one female and one or two malesbreeding. The non-reproductive individuals in the colony are reproductivelysuppressed, and yet show a rapid initiation of copulatory behaviour (withi...

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Main Authors: Nice, P., Fleming, P., Bennett, N., Bateman, Bill, Miller, D.
Format: Journal Article
Published: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd. 2010
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Online Access:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1469-7998.2010.00712.x/abstract
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/38797