Morphological divergence of breeders and helpers in wild damaraland mole-rat societies

Evolution

Volumn 64, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 3190-3197

  Young, Andrew J ^a   Bennett, Nigel C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Cooperation; Eusociality; Morphological caste; Reproductive skew; Specialization

Indexed keywords

BODY SHAPE; COLONY STRUCTURE; DATA SET; DIVERGENCE; DOMINANCE; EUSOCIALITY; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; INBREEDING; INSECT; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION GROWTH; QUEEN; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; RODENT; SPECIALIZATION; WILD POPULATION;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BODY SIZE; COOPERATION; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; GENETICS; INBREEDING; MALE; MOLE RAT; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BODY SIZE; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; DOMINANCE-SUBORDINATION; FEMALE; INBREEDING; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MOLE RATS; REPRODUCTION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

DAMARALAND; NAMIBIA;

HETEROCEPHALUS GLABER; HEXAPODA; RATTUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 77958571873     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2010.01066.x     Document Type: Article

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