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Naked mole-rats: behavioural phenotyping and comparison with C57BL/6 mice.
Behavioural brain research - 16 May 2012
Deacon R M J, Dulu T D, Patel N B
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Naked mole-rats (NMR) live underground in large eusocial colonies in East Africa. They are extremely long-lived, some individuals having a lifespan of over 30 years. This has attracted research into longevity and possibly neurodegenerative disorders. However, very little is known about their basic behaviour, particularly in tests commonly used to characterise the behaviour of the laboratory rat and mouse, for...
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