New colony formation in the 'highly inbred' eusocial naked mole-rat: Outbreeding is preferred

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 1-6

  Ciszek, Deborah ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Aggression; Allonursing; Cooperation; Eusociality; Heterocephalus glaber; Inbreeding; Kin recognition; Naked mole rat; Outbreeding

Indexed keywords

COLONY FOUNDING; EUSOCIALITY; INBREEDING; KIN RECOGNITION; RODENT;

HETEROCEPHALUS GLABER;

EID: 0034093447     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/11.1.1     Document Type: Article

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