Publication Date:
1981-05-01
Description:
Laboratory observations on a field-collected colony of 40 Heterocephalus have shown that only a single female breeds. The remaining individuals constitute two or three castes, each containing both sexes and distinguishable by size differences and the tasks they perform. These features, together with long life-spans, overlap of generations, cooperative brood care, and possible age polyethism provide parallels with the eusocial insects.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Jarvis, J U -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1981 May 1;212(4494):571-3.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7209555" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Animals
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*Behavior, Animal
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Body Weight
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Diploidy
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Reproduction
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Rodentia/*physiology
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*Social Behavior
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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