Review Article. A hypothesis about the significance of symbionts as a source of protein in the evolution of eusociality in naked mole rats

Symbiosis

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 369-383

  Dyer, Betsey Dexter ^a  

^a WHEATON COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Castor; Cryptomys; Erethizon; Eusociality; Heterocephalus; Meiostoma; Naked mole rat; Nutrition; Symbiosis

Indexed keywords

EUSOCIALITY; EVOLUTION; NAKED MOLE-RATE; PROTEIN; SYMBIONT;

HETEROCEPHALUS GLABER;

EID: 0031866186     PISSN: 03345114     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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