Are naked and common mole-rats eusocial and if so, why?

• 20 April 2000
• journal article
• review article
• Published by Springer Nature in Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
• Vol. 47  (5) , 293-303
• https://doi.org/10.1007/s002650050669

Abstract

Keywords

• KEY WORDS EUSOCIALITY
• SOCIAL EVOLUTION
• ARIDITY FOOD DISTRIBUTION HYPOTHESIS
• COOPERATIVE FORAGING
• PHYLOGENETIC CONSTRAINT
• SUBTERRANEAN RODENT
• HYSTRICOGNATHA
• BATHYERGIDAE
• CRYPTOMYS
• HETEROCEPHALUS GLABER
• MICROTUS OCHROGASTER
• SPALACOPUS CYANUS