Extended longevity of reproductives appears to be common in Fukomys mole-rats (Rodentia, Bathyergidae)

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Dammann, Philip ^a,c   Šumbera, Radim ^b   Maßmann, Christina ^a   Scherag, André ^c   Burda, Hynek ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ESSEN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BREEDING SUCCESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIGENETICS; FEMALE; FUKOMYS ANSELLI; FUKOMYS DAMARENSIS; FUKOMYS MECHOWII; LIFESPAN; LONGEVITY; MALE; MOLE RAT; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; RAT; REPRODUCTIVE EFFORT; SENESCENCE; SPECIES COMPARISON; SURVIVAL RATE; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION;

ANIMALIA; BATHYERGIDAE; CRYPTOMYS HOTTENTOTUS; RATTUS; RODENTIA; SPALAX GIGANTEUS;

ANIMALS; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; FEMALE; LONGEVITY; MALE; MOLE RATS; PHYLOGENY; REPRODUCTION;

EID: 79954611558     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0018757     Document Type: Article

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