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Hormones do not maketh the mole-rat: No steroid hormone signatures of subordinate behavioral phenotypes.
Hormones and behavior - 1 Sept 2022
Toor Ilapreet, Faykoo-Martinez Mariela, Edwards Phoebe D, Boonstra Rudy, Holmes Melissa M
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In some cooperatively breeding groups, individuals have distinct behavioral characteristics that are often stable and predictable across time. However, in others, as in the eusocial naked mole-rat, evidence for behavioral phenotypes is ambiguous. Here, we study whether the naked mole-rat can be divided into discrete phenotypes and if circulating hormone concentrations underpin these differences. Naked mole-rat...
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