DNA "fingerprinting" reveals high levels of inbreeding in colonies of the eusocial naked mole-rat

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 87, Issue 7, 1990, Pages 2496-2500

  Reeve, Hudson K ^a   Westneat, David F ^a   Noon, William A ^a   Sherman, Paul W ^a   Aquadro, Charles F ^a  

^a Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics   (United States)

Author keywords

Cooperative breeding; Eusociality; Hypervariable minisatellite DNA; Kin selection

Indexed keywords

BATHYERGIDAE; HETEROCEPHALUS GLABER; MAMMALIA; RODENTIA; VERTEBRATA; ANIMALIA;

SATELLITE DNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; DNA FINGERPRINTING; INBREEDING; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ANIMAL; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; CROSSES, GENETIC; DNA; DNA PROBES; FEMALE; HETEROZYGOTE; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMAN; INBREEDING; LIVER; MALE; MUSCLES; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; NUCLEOTIDE MAPPING; RODENTIA; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, NON-P.H.S.; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.;

DNA FINGERPRINTING; INBREEDING; MOLE-RAT; NAKED MOLE-RAT;

EID: 0025268419     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.87.7.2496     Document Type: Article

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