Energetics reveals physiologically distinct castes in a eusocial mammal

Nature

Volumn 440, Issue 7085, 2006, Pages 795-797

  Scantlebury, M ^a   Speakman, J R ^b   Oosthuizen, M K ^a   Roper, T J ^c   Bennett, N C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENERGY EFFICIENCY; MOISTURE; MORPHOLOGY; SOILS;

ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; EUSOCIALITY; MAMMALS; REPRODUCTION;

BIODIVERSITY;

RAIN;

BIODIVERSITY; CASTE; COLONY; EUSOCIALITY; LABOR DIVISION; MAMMAL; MORPHOLOGY; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ANIMAL CASTE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ENERGY EXPENDITURE; ENERGY TRANSFER; FEMALE; MALE; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; ORGANISM COLONY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION;

AFRICA; DAMARALAND; NAMIBIA; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

COETOMYS DAMARENSIS; CRYPTOMYS HOTTENTOTUS; MAMMALIA;

EID: 33645729343     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature04578     Document Type: Article

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