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BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS
卷 96, 期 2, 页码 376-393出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/brv.12660
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naked mole‐ rat; thermoregulation; sensory biology; physiology; ageing; cancer; social behaviour; subterranean life; sociality; Bathyergidae
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- Leibniz Association (SAS-2016-FLI-LFV)
- Washington University in St. Louis (USA)
- RFBR [19-34-51030]
Naked mole-rats, a small rodent species, exhibit many unusual traits in morphology, social behavior, physiology, and aging, which have been extensively studied over the past fifty years. Despite persisting myths and misconceptions surrounding this species, efforts are being made in the scientific community to explain the origins of these misunderstandings.
Naked mole-rats express many unusual traits for such a small rodent. Their morphology, social behaviour, physiology, and ageing have been well studied over the past half-century. Many early findings and speculations about this subterranean species persist in the literature, although some have been repeatedly questioned or refuted. While the popularity of this species as a natural-history curiosity, and oversimplified story-telling in science journalism, might have fuelled the perpetuation of such misconceptions, an accurate understanding of their biology is especially important for this new biomedical model organism. We review 28 of these persistent myths about naked mole-rat sensory abilities, ecophysiology, social behaviour, development and ageing, and where possible we explain how these misunderstandings came about.
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